First Crane!!!

On January 16th, 2009, Sam G was guiding for client and friend Chris D when the first sandhill crane, a.k.a. "rib eye-in-the-sky", was harvested.

The two hunters watched a large group of sandhill cranes take flight around 7:45 a.m. to the west of where they were hunting. However, the birds were too far away. At 9 a.m., an even larger group of cranes (about a thousand) rose from the north about half a mile away. Sam G began calling and Chris D used the flag to grab about half the flock's attention.

It was quite a spectacle as five hundred trumpeting sandhill cranes passed just 40 yards over the hunters. When the group flew over, Sam G called the shot and both guide and client put six rounds into the air. After the shooting was over, one B-52 bomber sized bird came crashing down into the ground with a "thud", finishing off the bird.