With the exception of the first week of each opener (refer to season dates), we will only hunt Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. By restricting our bookings to these dates, we can now provide the ducks with three rest days. It's those very rest days that should further help us in providing you with an outstanding hunting opportunity.

By restricting the days we will book hunts, we ask you to make your booking arrangements based on the following information. A group of hunters that are going to hunt two days will have two choices of when they can hunt. You can arrive for breakfast on Thursday morning for the first day of a Thursday and Friday hunt or you can arrive on Saturday morning for the first day of a Saturday and Sunday hunt. A two-day hunt will not be permitted to hunt a Friday and Saturday. If you are hunting three days, you may select any combination of the four days for your hunt. A group hunting four days would start their hunt on Thursday and Sunday would be the last day.

An Un-Guided Hunt is just what is states;
"There will not be a guide on the hunt"
The hunts will be done by the day and will take place in shallow flooded fields. The hunt will include breakfast at the Davy Crockett Guide Service lodge on the morning of each hunt day. When finished with breakfast, your hunting party will follow one of the Davy Crockett staff members to your hunting location. This eliminates the possibility of wrong turns or poor directions and permits you to arrive at the location in a timely manner. Once on location, the staff member will provide you with parking information for your vehicle(s) and show you the reflective markers that lead you to the buried pit or other hunting location.

Buried pits will be used in most fields and they will normally provide 16 feet of seating area, with a dog box in each end, providing for a twenty foot overall length. The sixteen feet of seating area will allow for up to six hunters to hunt from one pit. Each pit has a bench on each side, providing seating and a place for your coffee and shells as well. The pits are very low profile and rise from only several inches to a foot above the water level.

You will also be required to furnish your own decoys for the hunt. Many days you will find more decoys are better, but we would not recommend using less than four dozen decoys. Goose decoys always add a nice touch to a spread. While you may see thousands and thousands of snow geese and up to several hundred specklebellies in a given day, Canada Goose decoys work well with your duck decoys.

On an un-guided hunt you will be responsible for furnishing your own transportation from the parking area to the buried pit. Such transportation will be done with ATV's. While they can be 4x4, 6x6 or even the eight wheel drive Argos, automobiles and trucks or vehicles of such a nature will not be allowed past the parking area. The distance from the parking area to the pit locations will vary widely, depending on actual hunting locations. Location assignments are done on the evening prior to the next day's hunt. This allows us to use the most recent scouting reports on bird activities to help select which locations will be hunted each day.

The un-guided hunts are $700.00 per day and can be for two or more days at a time. This price remains the same no matter how many hunters you have in your party, but six is the maximum number permitted to use a single pit. The hunt day will run from legal morning shooting hours until legal evening shooting hours. You will be allowed to leave your decoys in the field over night.

To secure an un-guided hunt, check with our office for availability. If the dates are available, we require a 50% deposit at the time of booking. The remaining balance will be due on at breakfast of the first morning, prior to departing on the hunt.

Lodging is available with a small motel in Walnut Ridge and a wide selection of choices within twenty or twenty five miles of our headquarters. If you have an RV or camper, Lake Charles State Park is only a short drive or there is a small RV park approximately three miles from our lodge.