Testimonials from our clients

Dean, believe it or not this was our 5th year with you. In 2002, my 10 year old who brought a gun for the first time today was only 5 and my sophomore in high school thought I was cool! Let it be known that not many things get my 8th grader Sarah and my sophomore Natalie to pop out of bed at 6:15am. Heading to the goose line with the Goose Grinders (do you use that name any more, probably not as it isn’t politically correct!!???) does it every year. They did it today and will do it again next year because of your gracious team.

We had a ton of laughs, shot birds, and saw an awesome display of calling today with Smitty and the boys “setting em down” in the deeks. Your team makes our annual trip to Rochester an event to remember. Two great things happen on our annual trip. First, we preserve 3 hunters for the future. Second, I get to spend 4 hours with my kids in a 4X8 heated box, outside with no TV, phone, etc.

Hope you will enjoy a couple pit shots from today and a few from our first trip. Have a blessed Christmas, thanks and see you next year.

Jim

Hi my name is Jim Erickson I am a 100% disabled Kuwait and Iraq Army Sergeant. My son Jeremiah is a very enthusiastic 8 year old boy who loves to hunt. Because of my disabilities it is next to impossible for me to take my son out on any type of waterfowl hunting. So now this brings us to present day, I want to take this opportunity to thank Dean and Kevin for giving my son and I a hunt of a lifetime. They hauled us in the pickup where we needed to be and got us all set up for what turned out to be a hunt that we will never forget. Scott was our guide caller and I have never heard a more perfect caller in my life, I have hunted geese ever since I was my sons age, and I couldn`t tell the differance between Scott calling and the real geese that were coming in. This guide service has my vote of confidence and will be seeing my son and I many years to come, and by the way Dec. 1st, 07 was our 1st hunt and all together we "THE A TEAM" I will call them bagged a total of 89 geese. So if you want a guide service that caters to your needs and cares about you as a person then I suggest you give Dean a call at Premier outfitters. AND THEY DON`T CALL THEMSELVES GOOSEGRINDERS FOR NOTHING!! Thanks for a job well done guys you were excellant and we can`t wait for the spring snow goose hunt!!!!


FRIENDS FOREVER
JIM AND JEREMIAH ERICKSON
OFFICIAL GOOSEGRINDERS MEMBERS

Mr. Tlougan,

I enjoyed coming up there this year and hunting with my father and my brother. It was a great experience and meant alot to my dad. This next year I would like to plan a hunt for my father around Christmas or Thanksgiving when ever is more convenient for you. I would like to get this trip for him as a Christmas present. He is getting kind of old and I dont think that Robbie nor I relized this till this year. Haha. Thank you very much for allowing us to come and hunt with everybody. We had a awsome time and it was great to kill my first goose Once again thank you.

Thank you,
Ashleigh!


Dear Dean,

Thank you for the chance to get my first goose. I had a lot of fun. Rob did a good job of calling in the geese. It was fun watching them come in.

Thank You,
Kyle, 12
Mankato, MN

  

 

To Smitty and Kevin Steever, along with Hunter's Justice:

Thank you both from the bottom of my heart for letting myself along with my step-son Cruz come down on the 20th of Nov. To do some goose hunting.

It has been a couple of years hunting with you; but it did bring back alot of great memories with all of you. Even Cruz wanted to be the bird dog; but we already had one.

I even believe Cruz made Kevin laugh by telling some great stories...."about tying some bread around the decoy's neck, so the real geese will see that their's food on the ground." but then Smitty said "how about just getting some bagels instead, and tying that around their necks?" we all laughed.

For me, I shot and killed 2 of the geese that day on my own, that was a great feeling!!!!!!!

Anyway, thank you both again from the bottom of my heart for letting myself and my step-son Cruz come down and do a little hunting with you.

Hope to see you all again in the near future.

Tim and Cruz

Dear Mr. Tlougan:

My name is Brady S. and I’m nine years old. I would like to thank you for letting my dad and I hunt in the snow with Kevin (Nov. 10th). I have a new 20ga that I am learning to use. My dad and Kevin are lots of help and great teachers. The pits are cool and listening to Kevin and Smitty call the geese in was great. I even had to chase a wounded goose down and tackle it.

Thank you again Mr. Tlougan- I hope to meet you sometime soon!

Brady S
Viola, MN

 
 

Each hunt that we have had with them has been a dream hunt. Dean Tlougan has been living around Rochester for so long that he knows where the geese are going to go and if they are willing to come in to the decoys just by looking at the way the flock flies. On our last hunt i shot my first band ever. The pits are a perfect way to hunt while they break the cold blistering wind and provide great camo with an ingenious set up for the pop up top. The geese were attracted like magnets with well set up decoys and great calling with the buzzer going off with geese always within 25 yards and committed. Our family all got our limit on the first hunt with them. This was an experience of a lifetime.

Paul E.
Age 16
Apple Valley, MN

Hi Dean,

I want to thank you for a good hunt Sunday. Not only was the day very pleasant (Oct. 22), the geese picked our field a lot, came in to the decoys, suckered in on the calling and we were able to go home with our limit each. My son said it was the best bird hunt he has been on and had a great time. He was so fired up he couldn't stop shooting, so we headed over to the gun club and he pulled off 75 at the clays. When I told the other two boys, who weren't able to go with us, about the great fun, they were buggered out they weren't able to go and wished they were shooting too on Sunday. Hopefully they can come next time.

We have four breasts in the freezer and four ready to go for smoking tomorrow night. Mmmmm! Thanks again.

BR
Doug

Dean,

I wanted to write you to give some feedback on the hunt this morning. All 11 of us hunting could not have had a better experience. A big thank you to Premier Flight and especially our two guides.

The field and pits were awesome, and the birds were flying constantly, there wasn't a dull moment. We ended up downing 17 birds in about 1.5 hours, so we had very little time to rest.

However, what really made it great were our guides. As you know, 5 of our party had never hunted before, and our guides were absolutely accomodating, showing them the ropes of safety, coaching them, and encouraging them, and all 5 of those first-time hunters managed to kill a goose, what an exceptional accomplishment!

The guides worked very hard, their skills are the best I've seen in over 50 goose hunts I've been on, they really know the craft. Half of the excitement for the day was watching them turn flocks around and have them come back, they even managed one bird to land in decoys to draw others in, all the while strategically waiting until that magic moment to hit the buzzer. In addition, they were pleasant, polite, and even funny to add to the overall enjoyment of the day. Bottom line is, the guides made the atmosphere of the hunt as much a part of the good time as the shooting itself.

Please pass on all of our thanks to them!

Jon K