About Prairie's Edge and The Guru
Prairies Edge (P.E.) was established to give waterfowlers the opportunity to experience exceptional duck and goose hunting on the Mississippi Flyway... one of the largest duck and goose concentrations and migration routes in North America. Tens of thousands of Canada geese travel through and stay in Missouri (our main hunting area) every Fall with very little hunting pressure. Additionally, over the past 10 years the local population has also exploded providing some tremendous early and late season shooting!
All field hunts are out of Hay Bale or Final Approach lay down blinds (pits in Missouri only), and all are within 80 miles of a major metro area (with airport) and all of the hunts take place on private leased agricultural fields which have been selected to ensure excellent hunting during the early, mid, and late parts of the season.
Additionally, our pits add the opportunity to hunt late season flooded grain fields from heated pit blinds in NW Missouri, next to the Squaw Creek Refuge. This provided some exceptional duck and goose shooting!
All of our hunts are conducted in a safe, legal and ethical way.
Each of our experienced guides is tried and tested and known for their congeniality, skill, and professionalism. They are true conservationists and extremely knowledgeable of the waterfowl they pursue and the areas they hunt. Additionally, each is an expert caller and pays the closest of attention to every detail; incorporating the very latest hunting techniques in flagging, kites and realistic decoy spreads, using state of the art decoys.
Because we encourage getting young people involved in this great sport, any accompanied child 15 years of age or younger is 1/2 price on our hunts (Minnesota, SW Iowa, and Missouri)!!
The Guides
Shawn Eldredge
Your host, Shawn Eldredge has 30 years of Mississippi Flyway duck and goose hunting experience. Come along with his Yellow Lab "Molly Cornflake", who, along with Shawn, will show you a very memorable hunting trip. Shawn has been guiding waterfowl for 18 years and is one of the "Three Kings" spring snow goose guide service. Shawn's concept for the "Three Kings" is working with two other respected snow goose guide services. They combine field knowledge and equipment to ensure Fall and Spring snow goose hunts will provide memorable hunts for their clients. Kyle Phillips with Banded Gand'r Guide Service based out of Fergus Falls, MN and Jeremy Marean with River Bottom Guide Service based out of Waukee, IA are the other Kings, all of whom specialize in Missouri Spring snow goose hunting.
Jeremy Marean
Jeremy Marean, one of the newly formed "Three Kings", has owned and operated River Bottom Guide Service for nine years. Jeremy and Shawn not only combine their guiding talents on waterfowl, they also work together on turkeys and deer.
Kyle Phillips
Kyle Phillips' agressive approach to killin' snows made him the perfect fit to becoming a charter member of the "Three Kings". Kyle is based out of Fergus Falls, MN where he guides hunters for Canada geese and ducks. Kyle has been guiding professionally since 1999 and owns Banded Gand'r Outfitters.
Matt Cowden
Matt Cowden has a deep knowledge when it comes to guiding for waterfowl. Cowden has been guiding for Prairie's Edge for four seasons and with his unique sounds on his conventional snow goose call, notches up big numbers for our clients.
Molly Cornflake
Molly at 15 weeks
Molly Cornflake has been the working guide dog for the past 3 1/2 years, ever since 3 weeks after Shawn got her.
