Good Times Guide Service Team

Our Team

Thank you for considering us for your next guided bird hunt or ice fishing adventure! Good Times Guide Service, LLC was started in 2000. We are Native Coloradoans with deep ties to the people and communities in which we operate. We take pride in our knowledge of the land and of the wildlife, and do our best to give you the hunt of a lifetime, every time. We offer fully guided duck, goose, and combination duck and goose hunts along the beautiful Front Range of Northern Colorado.

Tad Stout
Owner & Guide

Tad was born and raised on the Front Range of Colorado and has hunted waterfowl here for 42 years. He started Good Times Guide Service, LLC in 2000 to complement his experience and education in wildlife & fisheries management. Tad believes that the success of a hunt is rooted deeply in the understanding of the creatures he pursues. Tad is a devoted family man with two children. Tad’s number one ambition is to assure the survival of the hunting heritage for future generations of outdoorsmen and women. He supports outdoor causes for habitat enhancement, military and disabled veterans, law enforcement, and youth hunters. During the off season Tad works as a consultant supporting large scale energy production companies.

 

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Ron “Mister Goose” Stout

In Loving Memory of Ron “Mister Goose” Stout 1941-2016

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Gunnar Stout
Guide Apprentice

Gunnar has been tagging along on waterfowl hunts with his father since the age of 5.  Gunnar can be seen on many of our hunts helping setup decoys, calling, running a flag, chasing down and retrieving birds, and helping with annual tasks of brushing blinds, digging pits, and painting decoys. Gunnar enjoys competitive clay shooting and all kinds of hunting and fishing activities.  Gunnar is involved with his High School chapter FFA and enjoys welding and hopes to be a mechanic or construction tradesman after graduation.

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Ladd

Ladd Joined us in 2013 to replace our old retriever Bella who suffered from retinal atrophy and eventually became 100% blind. Ladd came to us from a kennel in Nebraska and has an undying amount of drive for his size of 56 pounds. Ladd already has a few thousand retrieves under his belt, and is an essential part of day to day operations.

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Goon

Goon is the newest addition to the Good Times Family.  He is energetic and quirky, but eager to bring your birds back to the pit!

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