OUTDOORSMAN.COM OUTFITTER OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2006 & APRIL 2008

Our hunting area is near the town of Wainwright, Alberta, approximately three hours southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. Surrounded by farmland, rolling hills and the famous Battle River, this area possesses all the natural habitat required to produce quality trophy whitetail deer, mule deer, moose as well as thousands of ducks & geese.

Waterfowl hunting area is mainly farmland, sloughs and small lakes. This area boasts Canada's, Snow's and White fronted geese during the fall migration. This area of Alberta is also the main resting ground for a large variety of ducks. We have liberal limits and long hunting seasons, giving you an opportunity to limit out each day.

Canada's, Snow's and White fronted geese are plentiful here during the fall migration. This area of Alberta is also the main resting ground for a large variety of ducks. Our season begins in early September and ends in late October. The weather can vary somewhat during this time of year, but as a general rule, the days are mild with the evenings cooling off, sometimes freezing.

Our hunting lodge is located two hours southeast of Edmonton in Wainwright, Alberta on private deeded property. Our lodge has five bedrooms, two full baths, a large game room to sit and relax next to the fire place, a TV for watching hunting movies and others of your choice and a wonderful kitchen for the chef. You will enjoy all the comforts of home during your waterfowl hunt.

OUTDOORSMAN.COM OUTFITTER OF THE MONTH - OCTOBER 2007

An experience of a lifetime awaits you in Alberta, as Ranchland Outfitters will professionally guide you on an Alberta waterfowl trip that you won't forget! Whether you are an avid hunter or a first time waterfowler, Ranchland Outfitters is one of the best outfitters to guide you for waterfowl. We are located right in the heart of where three migration routes meet in Alberta; our territory covers thousands of acres of land in North Eastern Alberta right to the Saskatchewan border. We live year round in our area and have access to all the great spots for the best guided duck and goose hunts.

Our limits in Alberta are still great. We are allowed 8 dark geese, 8 ducks, and 20 snow geese daily. With the use the newest and best equipment our limits are met most days. We get giant Canada's, lesser Canada's, specks, snows, Ross, mallards, and pintails.

You will stay in our newly renovated lodge complete with kitchen, dining room, and living room to relax after a day of duck and goose hunting. Your meals are prepared at our own ranch style restaurant where you will enjoy tasting Alberta Ranched Elk and our Famous Alberta Beef.

Our Alberta waterfowl hunting season opens on September 1 and offers incredible guided hunting to the end of October. We guide small parties of 6 to 8 people and offer group discounts on full group bookings. Our spots fill up quickly and it is advisable to book as soon as possible. If you are ever watching hunting videos and wonder where they get the footage, come to Alberta and find out first hand that places like that still exist.

Additional opportunities exist as we have an archery only whitetail camp.

Our Waterfowl hunts run from the last week of September through November 1st. Our Fall hunts coincide with the stopover in our areas of the Hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese in the North American Central and Mississippi flyways adding to our already high resident bird population. New flights arrive almost daily dependent on weather, and the birds don't leave until inclement weather and freeze-up force them south at the beginning to mid-November.

These birds have not seen a decoy in almost 6 months and we have great success in putting the birds in your face with wings cupped and feet down by decoying with small to medium size spreads.

We run from 5-35 dozen shells, super-mags, full body, and Real Geese Pro Series decoys for Canada's. Our duck rigs consist of 4-7 dozen decoys with 2-3 powered spinning wing decoys mixed throughout and a vortex with wind spinners, as well we have over 800 snow goose Sillosock, North wind, life-size Shells, Real Geese Silhouettes, and flyer decoys as well e-callers that make for an ultra-realistic spread and some tremendous shoots.

The majority of our hunts are spent over decoys in grain fields, but we also have access into some great private and public lakes and marshes which can produce awesome multi-species duck shoots. Field Hunts are out of comfortable layout blinds, water hunts are run out of portable or permanent blinds, Jon boats with blinds or good old fashioned wader hunts. Let us tailor a package to meet your needs.

Cupped Wings Outfitting offers full service waterfowling hunts in the heart of the prairies, Manitoba's Interlake and Prairie Pothole Region. The Province of 100,000 lakes is world renowned for it's waterfowl staging areas, home of Ducks Unlimited's largest Habitat project “Oak Hammock Marsh”, and Delta Waterfowl's world famous Delta Marsh. 15 species of ducks including Mallards, Pintail, Widgeon, Gadwall, Canvasback and Redheads among others, 4 sub-species of the Canada Goose, as well as Ross’ Geese, Snow Geese, Blue Geese and Sandhill Cranes are abundant. Come experience waterfowl hunting with Cupped Wings Outfitting, the stuff dreams are made of…