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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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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 Reading
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.
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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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: