Welcome to Double Gun Bird Hunts.  It’s been a lifetime of bird dogs, bird hunts, and a respect for the sport.  Steve began hunting at a very early age, hunting ducks and ruffed grouse before school then cleaning game during lunch hour in the alley behind school. He earned his degree in Natural Resources from the University of Minnesota at Crookston in 1979 and became manager, trainer and guide for Dakota Hunt Club of that same year. For Steve the passion happens to be hunting with well mannered bird dogs, fine guns and a true respect for the game. Success is not in taking game, but how the game was taken.

Starting Little Moran in 1984, as a pheasant club and the ruffed grouse camp in 1988. During this time is when Steve gained a reputation as the “grouseman”. Steve became head trainer for Burnt Creek Setters in ND from 1985-89. His setters handled ruffed grouse and woodcock with finesse and the expertise needed for such a wild and spooky game bird.  The “grouseman’s” claim to fame is running a brace of setters…always, and a guide string numbering close to14 dogs.

With Steve’s knowledge and expertise as a dog handler and guide it eventually led him to guiding at the Grand National Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock Hunt in Grand Rapids, MN for 12 years. Then Grand National Quail Hunt in Enid, OK, for another 5 years, conducting dog training and handling seminars at each event. Steve specializes in pointing breeds and is a breeder of field bred English Setters. The setters are without question our biggest asset behind the knowledge and expertise of Steve as a guide and conservationist. Steve pride’s himself on the high quality of his hunts, and string of setters. As guide Steve hunts with no more than two guns per guide, and requires double guns on all hunts. Steve does work with other guides at times, again rest assured these guides are of the same mindset about their love of sport, their dogs and knowledge of the hunt. They are all guides that have proven themselves, a group that Steve would hunt with.

Steve’s passion is contagious, which you will come to find out and of the highest integrity both as guide and dog handler. Join him in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Oklahoma.  Experience time with Steve, his setters and our “Double Gun Bird Hunts”.