Argentina Bahia Blanca 410

Los Gauchos .410 Shooting Program - This Shooting Program is only available in Argentina

See below for the complete details of this Shooting Program:

There is no minimum group size required.
You are welcome to come by yourself (only you must agree to a date with an intact group)
You are welcome to bring non-hunters (sharing the same room) for only $49 per day.
You may bring your own gun for this trip, or rent a 12 ga. Remington 1100 or 1187 model for $19 USD per day.
Groups are limited to six shooters per week. If you do not wish to hunt with other guests, you must have (or pay for) a minimum of six in your party.
This hunt is a 4 day shooting program -- no more, and no fewer days are available.
Groups that book six shooters at once, get a discount—six shooters for the price of five

Program dates and pricing:

This program is available from May 18th – August 1st for 2007
$410 per day, per hunter
* only $49 per day for non-hunting guests staying in the same room.

What is included / not included ?
In this Argentina bird hunting trip

INCLUDED:

All guided duck hunting, dove and pigeon hunting, guided goose hunting, and guided upland hunting in Argentina
All necessary hunting licenses
All gourmet meals, complimentary soft drinks, beer, fine wine, and liquor from the hotel bar.
All gratuities to the hotel and field staff (anything extra that a client wishes to leave is definitely not required or expected).

NOT INCLUDED:

Airfare (Fluctuates everywhere form $800 to $1,500; for your flight between Buenos Aires and Bahia Blanca $200 USD; check the following websites yourself if you wish—the airport code for Buenos Aires, Argentina is EZE: www.AA.com / www.Expedia.com / www.Orbitz.com or call our travel desk for up to the minute listings and complete assistance: 972-422-4000 and make sure to ask for Dwayne King)
Hotel $39 for the first night, $59 for the following nights. This price includes three excellent meals every day, open bar, and free internet at some hotels. These prices are based on double occupancy. Single occupancy rooms are available for an additional charge. Please inquire for current prices.
Ground transportation and customs / firearms assistance in Buenos Aires ($60 per passenger, round trip)
Ground transportation from Bahia Blanca airport to the hotel. $60 per passenger round trip form the Bahia Blanca airport to the hotel. Private van charters are available for groups that do not wish to fly from Buenos Aires to Bahia Blanca. The drive is approximately 5 hours and the price of this charter (approx. $1200.00 USD/6 passengers) is the same price as the airfare. Some of our clients prefer to take a van in order to see the beautiful countryside, and/or to return to Buenos Aires on Tuesday night, leaving all day Wednesday for sightseeing.
Note: This only applies to hunters bringing non-shooting guests: the normal ground transportation price of $60 round trip is for a private van containing six hunters. Those who wish to bring non-shooting guests need to know that it is possible that they may incur an extra charge if the non-shooting passenger pushes the total van occupancy over six passengers. An extra car would be required and the cost of that car and driver is $99 round trip.
Any overweight baggage fees charged by the airlines
Argentina gun permit: ($70 USD per gun if a client chooses to bring his or her own hunting shotguns—limit 3 guns per passenger). This fee is paid directly to the Argentine govt. by the client at the airport upon arrival. This fee is subject to change without notice.
Hotels in Buenos Aires ($105 per night, per contract—call us to verify availability)
The best waterfowl hunting loads available ($11.00 per box of 25)
Internet, International telephone calls or fax transmissions
Items of a personal nature
Gun rental: $19 USD per day for Remington 1100 0r 1187 model semi autos.

Below we invite you to read all about this shooting program. Our great success is founded on delivering exactly what we say we will—so although you will find our descriptions lengthy—they are completely accurate and thorough. Don’t leave anything to chance!

With Los Gauchos Outfitters, our guests will experience bird hunting in Argentina that is on par with any other high-volume destination in the world. Our access to over 70,000 private acres of corn, sunflower, and wheat fields ensures great goose hunting in Argentina every day of the season.

In addition to the vast cultivated fields, there are many nearby potholes and lakes—which are legally baited with rice and corn on a daily basis—ensuring superb duck hunting for puddlers, and divers alike. Shooters can expect to harvest as many as seven species of ducks, but possibly more (Rosybilled Pochard, Yellow Billed Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Silver Teal, Speckled Teal, Chiloe Widgeon, and Red Shoveler, and possibly White-Faced Tree ducks, White Cheek Pintails, and Black Headed ducks).

The afternoons offer either another duck hunt, or low volume dove or pigeon hunting (2-8 boxes) or busy walk-up shooting for Perdiz over well trained German Shorthaired Pointers, and fast moving English Setters. While pigeon hunting in Argentina is a high-volume affair in some parts of the country, in our area, one should only expect to shoot a few boxes of shells per afternoon.

Accommodations:

Location. Location. Location.

Often times, great accommodations and superb waterfowl hunting are mutually exclusive experiences—not at Los Gauchos. Our hotel in the city of Colonel Pringles, and Tresarroyos both offer very nice double occupancy rooms. The rooms are impeccably clean, spacious, and impeccably maintained. All meals, beer, and wine are included. The hotels feature a fabulous bar, and some even have a business center with free high speed internet.

The hotel located in Pringles is just five minutes from our main lodge that is at the intersection of three major highways, and right in the heart of the region’s largest wintering area for Ashy headed geese, Magellan geese, and hundreds of thousands of ducks—in the county of Coronel, Pringles.

Using multiple hotels offers us the ability to access hunting areas that are unreachable (unless they drive two hours) by outfitters that utilize lodging facilities in rural areas. Our average drive time to the field is only thirty minutes. Those of you that goose hunt often—and do diligent scouting know that is close. Our hotel in Laprida is located only 20 minutes from our best duck shooting areas.

“O.K. Why is this such a big deal?”

Here is a primer: All too often in this part of Argentina the “estancias” available for rent to outfitters are typically just turn of the century old clapped-out country farmhouses. Many have only a noisy diesel generator to power the entire house, only fireplaces for heat, and a single bathroom that must be shared by all the guests. We know, because we started in one of these “estancias”…

But hey, this is duck hunting right? We are used to old-fashioned duck camps, and humble accommodations! The thing is, that is not the worst part of the country farmhouse equation. The big down side is that they are often located fifteen miles or so from any form of pavement. This means you spend at least a cumulative hour of your day—every day—bouncing down dirt roads, just to get to the paved highway, so you can drive out the hunting areas. After periods of heavy rainfall, you might spend closer to two hours a day on those dirt (now muddy) roads That is a bad deal. Our multiple hotels minimize the drives to our various shooting areas, offering maximum convenience.

Meals:

Meals consist of both local Argentine fare, and the wild game that you harvest. Lunches are typically an Argentine asado (grilled meat over a wood fire) consisting of the grass-fed local beef that the country is so famous for, along with free-ranging pork and poultry—served with huge salads, and loaves of fresh bread. Beef is served at dinner in the form of filet mignon, in addition to cannelloni, wood fired Sicilian style pizzas, and brochettes of Perdiz. All of the meals are complemented by rich desserts, and fine Argentine wines.

Trip details:

These Argentina bird hunting trips are a Thursday-to-Thursday trip—depending on whether or not you intend to stay a night in Buenos Aires before or afterwards.

Expect to leave the USA on a Thursday, and take a non-stop (overnight) flight from MIA, JFK, or DFW to the great city of Buenos Aires—known as the Paris of South America. You will be met at the police station in baggage claim by a member of the Los Gauchos Staff.

While not at all obligatory, most clients elect to begin their Argentina hunting trip by coming in a day early (leave the USA on Wednesday) and stay at one of the city’s many luxurious hotels—where one can take in all the sights, and enjoy the great steakhouses, Tango shows, local shops, and superb nightlife.

The following day (or same day if no stay in BSAS is planned) guests will take an early afternoon flight (approximately 50 minutes on a Boeing 737) from Buenos Aires to the city of Bahia Blanca. There, you will be met by the Los Gauchos staff and transported to the hunting lodge (1:15 in a van, all on a paved highway).

There is no minimum group size (individual hunters are welcome), but parties are limited to a maximum of six shooters per week. If you desire to book a private group, there must be a minimum of six shooters in the party.

All guests arrive at the hotel on Friday night for dinner, begin hunting on Saturday morning—and finish Wednesday. The 4 days of hunting will alternate between ducks or geese in the morning and then Perdiz, or dove and pigeon hunting in the afternoons. In order to protect our roosts we only hunt waterfowl on one afternoon of the trip. This can be broken up, or done as all day duck hunting.

On Wednesday our guests will take an afternoon flight back to Buenos Aires, where they make their connections back to the USA. Guests may opt for a private van back to Buenos Aires on Tuesday night after the hunting if desired.

Please email any further questions about this trip to: Lgoutfitters@yahoo.com

We look forward to hosting you in Argentina for this great waterfowl and upland shooting program which includes:

Argentina waterfowl hunting:

Argentina duck hunting

Argentina goose hunting

Argentina upland hunting:

Argentina Perdiz hunting

Argentina pigeon hunting

We also offer great bird hunting vacations in Uruguay for:

Uruguay dove hunting

Uruguay pigeon hunting

Uruguay duck hunting