we flew into Buenos Aires and met our guide, he had a professional driver pick us all up and drive us about 8-10 hours out into the Pampas to an Estancia (estate) that he had a deal with the owner for hunting. The estancia was about 80,000 hectares, a hectare is about 4 acres, so the estancia was about 320,000 acres which we thought was huge but the owner told us that it was one of the smaller estancia's in the area. We stayed in a large 100 year old mansion on the estancia and we had 3 ladies there that did all of our cooking and laundry, really took good care of us, along with a massuese who came in from town every night to give us all massages. The closest town was called Colonel Pringles. We also each had our own "duck boy" who waited on us as we hunted, loaded our guns, carried our gear, retrieved our birds, etc.

We would generally hunt geese first thing in the morning, field hunting, and between the 6 of us would normally kill 50-60 geese in a couple of hours. Then we would go and hunt doves during the middle of the day and would kill thousands of them per day. I have pictures where we have huge stacks of them in front of us piled several feet high. Somedays instead of hunting doves we would hunt Perdiz which is an upland bird about the size of a chukar but they live in the cornfields so you hunt them like you'd hunt pheasants over dogs. Then is the evening we would hunt ducks on one of the lagoons (ponds) on the estancia. Once evening me and two other guys set up on one of the lagoons and in 2 hours times I personally shot 55 ducks and 30 geese, both of them did about the same. We each took two shotguns with us, down there you don't have to use a plug so we took them out plus you can shoot lead shot, and as fast as you would shoot one gun out your duckboy would have loaded your other gun and hand it to you and while you're shooting that one he would be reloading your other gun. There were times the barrels literally glowed red from the heat of being shot so much.

There are no bag limits so you can kill as many birds as you wan and there aren't any shooting hours so we were still shooting at shadows in the sky after it was mostly dark. It was fun.

Then every night some townspeople would come and take all of the birds we shot that we didn't want to keep and they would eat them so nothing went to waste, all of them were eaten except the ones we kept for mounts. The ladies that cooked and cleaned for us would cook some of what we killed for us as well.

There are so many birds down there that it is unbelievable. Only one type of duck down there is the exactly same as the breeds we have up here, the cinnamon teal, other than that they're completely different and the geese are different as well. The geese we killed were greater and lesser Magellon and Ashy Headed geese. There are some other types but those were the ones we hunted. Some of the ducks are variants of what we have in North American, types of teal, shovelers, scaup, and pintail, but they aren't exactly the same plus some were just completely different breeds like nothing we have hear.

Honestly it was the greatest hunting trip I've ever been on, and I've been on some good ones, and I plan to do it again but since I've already done it I can't really call it a bucket list item.