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Gunning with Los Gauchos |
Reprinted with the permission of Shooting Sportsman Magazine
Pictured on the magazine cover of this
issue is George Criddle's personal retriever "Fred" - one of many of Los Gaucho's dogs.
He is pictured retrieving a silver teal in
Uruguay. Read an article about Los Gauchos Outfitters from the
November / December issue 2005. Read
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A chill buffeting wind blows across the open land as a wavering line
of birds rows steadily upstream against the flow. From their high
vantage point, the world is simple; grass, sky, horizon and wind. In
this vast country the line of birds somehow adds the spark of life
to a great empty vista. Friendly black and white forms appear spread
out on the grass ahead, and the birds turn toward them. On the
ground, the wind... Continue
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Photo by Lee Thomas Kjos |
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Los Gauchos Outfitters
By Stuart Williams
Reprinted with the permission
of Patagonia publishing company |
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| Los Gauchos Outfitters is a relatively new company, but a very good one in spite of its newness. It was founded just two years ago by George Criddle, a young Texan with a passion for waterfowling, and his Argentine partner, who comes from an influential family in Bahia Blanca and speaks excellent English after four years at the University of California. Los Gauchos offers excellent shooting for geese—their specialty—and very good shooting for Argentina ducks and doves. Los Gauchos offers stand alone Argentina dove hunts in Cordoba, but only ducks, Magellan goose hunting, Ashyhead goose hunting, Perdiz, and pigeons at their flagship Argentina hunting lodge in Bahia. Continue
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Outdoor Life Magazine December/January 2006
by Todd W. Smith, editor-in-chief, Outdoor Life
Reprinted with the permission of Outdoor Life Magazine
A Duck Hunting Paradise |
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| There’s a place where you can experience duck hunting the way it used tobe, a place where the dawning skies stream with flights of ducks, the bag limits are liberal, the people are friendly and there is virtually no hunting pressure. That place is Uruguay. Continue
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Dallas Gun Club Newsletter-January 2008 by,Richard Whaley |
- Our outfitter for this trip was Los Gauchos, owned by club member George Criddle.
- George has done a good job of networking within his alma mater LSU...we had LSU students as our guides. These kids live and breathe duck hunting.
- ...we had non-stop shooting, ducks came from all directions, and by the
end of the shooting the little patch of water was covered with the results of our efforts.
- Meals were excellent, accommodations unique, hunting excellent, and guides first
rate. This trip we shot mostly Brazilian teal, silver teal, white cheeked tree ducks, and speckled teal... continue reading
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A Closer Look at Los Gauchos Outfitters:
Reprinted with the permission of The Bird Hunting Report |
- A favorite outfitter of Bird Hunting Report subscribers
- Lots of waterfowl
- Accommodations “ Once in a little farmhouse, now a luxurious lodge
- Food: Gourmet from live-in chef
- Hunt: Close-decoying geese, an abundance of ducks, and sporty upland shooting
Several Bird Hunting Report subscribers have described George Criddle of Los Gauchos Outfitters as a straight shooter who delivers what he promises. And if he can’t, as was the case last year when drought and other weather conditions put the goose migration off in 2005, Criddle will go out of his way to make up for it. Here’s what he has to say about his outfitting services. Continue
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The Bird Hunting Report
Reprinted with the permission of The Bird Hunting Report |
| Long-time subscribers will remember the continuous flow of reports we received for several years from shooters visiting Estancia Los Chanares in Argentina’s Cordoba Province. Subscribers who hunted there raved about the accommodations, service and of course the large flocks of doves found right on the property. Then suddenly, the reports stopped coming, and Los Chanares fell off the dove hunting radar. Now we have learned that the place is under new ownership and back in business. Outfitter George Criddle owner three great hunting lodges in South America, named Los Gauchos Outfitters tells us he is working with the new owner of Los Chanares, David Perez, an American businessman from the banking industry, and that Los Chanares is once again open for business—back to their specialty, dove hunting in Argentina. Here’s what Criddle had to tell us in a note he sent us about the new management of this treasured operation: Continue
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Shooting Sportsman Magazine—January / February 2006
"Unspoiled Uruguay”—a photo essay by Lee Thomas Kjos
Reprinted with the permission of Shooting Sportsman
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| It’s May south of the equator—way south, near Chuy, Uruguay. Fall here means ducks have begun migrating north, and hunters have traveled down to meet them. Continue
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