Why High Plains Wingshooters? About us.

High Plains Wingshooters is the latest venture of Bret and Candy Van Rensselaer. After building and developing a number of lodges and outdoor adventure programs – including the full service North Platte Lodge and Rockin 7 Ranch – the Van Rensselaers have put together HPW to give wingshooters the opportunity to experience the best Canada Goose Hunting available.

The *no-host guest house lodging is the newest program.

Our goal is to provide our guests with a high quality guided hunt – with comfortable accommodations where they can cook, relax and enjoy their own group of friends without the schedule and format of a lodge setting.

High Plains Wingshooters is located just minutes west of Torrington on the banks of the North Platte River. HPW guests will enjoy staying in the heart of Honker Heaven.

*No-host guest lodge – accommodation much nicer than a house, but self-service with no daily room or cleaning service. A full kitchen is available for guests to prepare their own meals.

GUEST COMMENTS:

...one of the best kept secrets of water fowling

Thank you again for another great Goose hunt. This was my sixth year hunting with High Plains Wingshooters and I have already booked next year’s hunt. The guides, dogs and pit blinds are outstanding. I have said this before, the North Platte River is one of the best kept secrets of water fowling.

R. Davenport
California


...best all around hunting experience I have found.

If you are looking for a top notch experience at a great price, look no further than High Plains Wing Shooters. I've hunted geese with several outfitters and I can assure you, Brett Rensselaer provides the best all around hunting experience I've found. He LIVES for goose hunting!!

What that means to you is, you get someone that spends countless hours watching birds, acquiring new properties to hunt, building pits, and simply putting everything he has into his passion - goose hunting.

He has some of the best guides you'll ever find. Brett wants every one of his clients to have an awesome experience. Which is why he dedicates so much time and energy to ensure every hunter has the absolute best hunt possible.

And if the geese aren't in the area, Brett will be the first one to call you if it would be pretty sketchy if you come out the weekend you're booked. He will certainly give it everything he has if you are committed to a specific weekend but, he will gladly move you to a different weekend when he knows the birds are there. He won't BS you about what you can expect!

Also, High Plains Wing Shooters has the most incredible pits you'll ever hunt out of - bar none!!! Very roomy, with each hunter having a chair to sit in and plenty of room to move. Oh yeah, and if you find yourself there on a bitter cold day (who would guess it could get cold in Wyoming, right - LOL!!) each pit has propane heaters to keep you toasty warm and comfortable.

And after a great day of hunting, you can return to the lodge and relax. The lodge will accommodate 10 adults comfortably, with a full kitchen, 5 bedrooms/10 beds, 2 full baths, a pool table, a card table, a living room with cable TV, and a separate building for cleaning your geese.

Don't just take my word for it, give High Plains Wingshooters a try. I know I look forward to returning for many years to come.

Scott Butler
West Jordan, UT

...a world class site and hunting opportunity

I just wanted to thank you again for your generous offer to let us another day in the future. You have really done a great job at making this a world class site and hunting opportunity. It really left a great impression on me to hear you call and work the birds. We got to see those birds that wouldn't look at us earlier, come down and give us a chance.

We know how hard it can be when the weather is so drastically unusual as it was Friday and Saturday, and understand your concerns for someone hunting from a wheelchair........... Believe me, it did not go unnoticed!

I learned a lot by listening to your techniques and appreciate your advise on the T G calls.

Craig Dangerfield
Utah


...every time the overall experience has been awesome.

I don't know how you do it but every time I come to High Plains Wingshooters it just keeps getting better and better. Over the past three years I have been on four multi-day Canada goose hunts and one multi-day snow goose hunt and every time the overall experience has been awesome.

Your web site really touts the lodge and the pits, and it is true, they are the best, but the one thing that has impressed me the most with yourself and the other guides is your abilities to assess the situation when geese aren't finishing centered on the pit and making subtle changes to the decoys to put them right in front so everyone has a quality shot.

Also they way your staff caters to youth hunters is remarkable, the only problem with the level of hunt you provide to the kids is they come away thinking it's always that "easy" and they get to shoot every single that comes near them.
Mike Neil
Utah

...the experience I have had two years in a row will keep me coming back.

Just thought I'd write a quick note and say thanks for another great trip. I took my second trip to High Plains Wingshooters in December. As always the entire group, which I think this time was eleven had a great time. I have been on guided goose hunts before, but the experience I have now had two years in a row will keep me coming back. It's not all just about the number of geese you kill, (although that does help), but the experience as a whole.

Every aspect of this hunt seems to be about as good as you could hope for. The guides all seem to have their own claim to fame as far as being able to call, and also have plenty of knowledge on what to do to close the deal.

The pits are the nicest I've ever seen, with the heaters and nice chairs in all of them. You can't say enough about having dry feet and plenty of room in the pit to move around. Another great thing is the amount of leases you have on property that gives you plenty of options where to go to get good action. You don't have to be stuck in a field that might not be as good as you hoped for.

The lodge is actually another one of my favorite things about the trip. It is roomy enough, even with eleven guys that your not stacked on top of each other. The nice thing is, you can get back together with the entire group at night and talk about the days hunt. The cleaning facility makes it so much easier to take care of your kill. This year I was able to take the first days kill and turn it into jerky right there at the lodge. Well thanks again for another great trip, and guarantee we'll be back.

Gary Butler
Kamas, Utah


...I am sooo happy I took the opportunity to experience Honker hunting at this level. I will definitely be booking again.

Well first off let me tell you my hunting has not been spectacular this year so I set up a guided hunt with High Plains Wingshooters in Torrington Wyoming. I took my 11 year old son and a bunch of buddies. 10 hunters in all 2-3 different pits each day. 4 birds/day was the limit. 80 birds total for the two days. It was awesome.

Watched my boy shoot his limit of Honkers on New Years day. My 11-year-old son had a blast. You spoiled him rotten, letting him take the first shot and all.

I was thinking about your set up and something I thought you should point out is this. Layout blinds SUCK! BEWARE OF GUIDES THAT PROMISE RESULTS BUT STICK YOU IN A COLD LAYOUT BLIND!!!! I asked my buddies who hunted with me in ‘07 with (another outfitter). They were all frozen too. Layout blinds Suck!!!

Your heated pits were so comfortable in comparison. There is no doubt in my mind what kind of blind I want to hunt out of next time.

They weren't kidding when they told me there's approximately 30,000 Geese using their area right now (This is where they spend the winter). We noticed large flocks in every other field as we drove into town. As we went to dinner that evening their was no end in sight of Canadian Geese V'd up going into their roosts. All I can say is I'm sooo happy I took the opportunity to experience Honker hunting at this level. I will definitely be booking again.

Mike Rowbury
Utah