Morning starts early here on the prairie. Once you've got your feet on the floor and selected your attire for the morning's hunt, you'll find breakfast and hot coffee waiting. After breakfast, your guide will be waiting and ready to go in the Suburban.

You'll be in the field and carefully setting your spread. For many of our guests this never-perfect art form is one of the great challenges in the sport of hunting. Your guide will share many years of trial and error as he places over three hundred, full-bodied decoys to attract flocks of birds that will soon fill the sky.

Your heart will be pounding as you hear the first call of the incoming geese. Now it's time to wait, gun in hand, until you hear the words, "Take 'em."

During the first hour of daylight, your spread will attract early morning mallards, but be careful -- they can come out of nowhere and be gone before you know it. Your hunt will continue throughout the morning. With generous limits of birds per gun, this won't be a half-hour exercise. You'll have time to watch a prairie sunrise, drink hot coffee, and share tales of hunts past with your guide and hunting partners. This is hunting like it is supposed to be.

It's time to pull your spread and head back to the lodge. Once you've changed your clothes, gather for lunch. You'll find a great menu to choose from and a wonderful staff of folks waiting to serve you.

After a nice lunch and a nap, you will head back out to the field for your choice of a partidge/grouse or duck hunt.

Enjoy your favorite beverages and share with your friends the adventures of your day's hunt.

The balance of the evening is up to you. Party if you can, but remember, 4:30 a.m. comes pretty early.