It was a chance meeting — or was it providential? Allen Piper and I were in Saskatchewan, Canada hunting ducks and geese with an outfitter from Texas. On our way to the lodge we began to stop and talk to local farmers about hunting. We stopped at a small refinery and I walked up to the construction office. The first person I met was a young man with a goose call in his hand. We really hit it off and he said, “Don’t pay all that money to an outfitter again. Come hunt with me.” That’s how I met Joshua Allen.
During the next two years I stayed in contact with Joshua. He is a very serious hunter and his invite to return to Canada and hunt with him was genuine.
In early September, businessman Bill Jones and I were there, ready for some great goose and duck hunting. Driving across Alberta and into Saskatchewan was remarkable. If you love agriculture, it was miles of gentle, rolling hills with thousands and thousands of acres of wheat, barley, oat, peas and canola, dotted with thousands of small potholes. It is truly the duck factory of North America.
