Canada geese flying over Blacktail Ponds at first light

Field log · 06:12 — first light, winds out of the north

Built by hunters.
Tested by geese.

Canada goose hunting on private farmland — full-body spreads, dug-in pits, and the kind of cold mornings that make it all worth it.

Weld · Larimer · Morgan counties — since 1993

NPS photo, public domain

About the Club

Thirty years of getting up before the birds

We're a small group of hunters who lease private farmland across Northern Colorado and chase Canada geese the old way — decoys on the ground, pits dug in, calls in hand.

Honker Nation started in 1993 with three leased fields, a beat-up pickup, a pile of decoys we called the junkyard spread, and one goal: shoot birds. No trailers, no custom pits, no high-dollar gear — just ground the geese wanted to use and hunters willing to be cold to earn it.

Thirty years later the junkyard spread is gone. Today we run full-body decoy spreads, dug-in pit blinds with custom lids, and a scouting program that reads the fields every morning before first light. The gear got better because the geese got smarter — and so did we.

What hasn't changed is the lease list. Our fields sit across Weld, Larimer, and Morgan counties — corn, wheat, and sugar beet ground the birds hammer on their way through the front range. Every hunt is on private land we hold the keys to. No walk-ins, no crowds, no racing another outfit to the roost.

Cold mornings, honest work, and geese that make you earn every shot.
Sunrise over a freshly harvested stubble field
Stubble field at first light — the ground we chase them over · C. Collins (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Scouting report — the numbers

1993
Est. in the field
20+
Leased fields
3
Northern CO counties
6
Guns per pit, max

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