Snow storm of the winter keeping us home

Have you experienced a winter snowstorm, keeping you home for 3 full days? With winds gusting to 75mph, about one and half feet of snow falling in about 12 hours and our winds didnot stop for 48 hours.  Wow we were Stormed and Blown but like all people who live in Manitoba we just sit tight till it disperses and then we start digging out..  While it was storming the dogs and I used  snow shoeing as my method of travel.. We put on about 6 miles in the 2 days of blocked roads, and then it was just fun to travel along the banks threw the woods to see neat paterns and banks in the snow.

Bear hunting in Manitba

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stc_0079stc_0106Would you take either of these bears? Bear pops are high in Manitoba, little black is feeding at the apples and oat barrel out back and the nice blonde was at the yard in spring. However too bad he  wouldnt stay away from local farmers dog dish so he was put down.. He would of made a beauty in a few years.  Locals can protect their farms and animals from predators.

Manitoba Goose and Duck Opens

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Have you gotten out to hunt? With great numbers of Local birds our resident Manitobans are whackin up a pile of birds. Big Grass Outfitters has not hit fields yet but soon! Harvest is well underway in the Prairie pothole region.

Rain makes happy Duck hunters

IMG_7951 IMG_7831 IMG_7830lots of rain this summer including some areas got hit hard with hail, high winds, and tornado sightings and touch downs. Angry clouds but make awesome photo taking over the summer.. but ponds are full and lots of spots in fields are holding water for ducks!

Manitoba Spring bear Yahoo!!!

imageimageFrench fri grease for grease pads, oats and grease in barrels, fresh scent in the air, as an attractant, and a pile of fresh meat scraps to spread the word that the Diner is open at Big Grass. Every year we dump gallons of oil and pounds of meat for the Bears offering a good reason for those huge Bruins to frequent the bait sights giving our hunters a opportunity of a good Manitoba Trophy.

Spring Black Bear baiting

imageimageimageBear baiting done. Wow snow, water, mud, dust, sun, clouds, rain, wind  all in one day. You never know what kinda day you might hav in the woods.  But great part of spring bear baiting was the frost was still on the ground in the spruce swamps which made the Job much easier.  A little sign showed but not much, with temps freezing most nights the bears are not really moving and looking for food.

Portia Marsh Boardwalk

imageimageimageTime out for a little site seeing. Portia Marsh is a unique waterfowl staging area for ducks geese and many different water birds. We took time to View info plaques, and just enjoy the view Mnaitoba has to offer.

Remember Big Grass Outfitters

a4a5460b6d.jpegd843b14fd7.jpegRandy Ferguson, John, Randy and Ron Randall 5 years in a row till college tuitions came in the way.  We had great fun, scouting, whacking and stacking, snow geese, canadian, limits of ducks. We offer quality hunts, we work hard and goose hunting in Manitoba is a dream for all.