ABOUT US

Your Kansas Hunting Outfitter

We are located in the North Central part of the state, just 25 miles north of Salina, Kansas, on I-135. We are only 7 miles from the small town of Minneapolis, Kansas. Family owned and operated by Todd and Rachel Griffin. We raised 2 sons, Stuart and Grant. 

We manage 17,000+ acres of Prime River and creek bottom land in Ottawa, Saline, and Cloud Counties. We offer Kansas trophy deer, turkey (Rio Grande), predator (coyote and bobcat), and pheasant hunts. This is truly the home of Kansas trophy whitetail deer!!

Stuart is now an outfitter and owns Post Rock Outfitters, offering all the same great hunts in a new area. He also offers elk, mule deer, and antelope hunts in Wyoming. We help each other out as needed. Grant, now a plumber and HVAC man, helps with feeder filling, tracking deer, helping me get guys in and out of the field, guiding when needed, and doing a lot of other jobs that need to be done.  Both boys are very good hunters and hard workers, and they make great partners in our family business. 

In 2022, we hired a new guide, Clayton Weaver, who has been with us ever since. He has taken a great load off of us, since both the boys have now filled their lives. He has taken over feeder filling and camera management, which is a full-time job! He can keep the million-plus pictures we get organized, and somehow, he keeps them all straight. He does a lot more than what I mentioned. The fact of the matter is, no one knows how much work we do and what it takes to run a successful business in the hunting world. He has turned out to be a great help!

Rachel is the one who organizes everything and makes sure it gets done on time.  Not counting our home life, she cleans the Lodge, does all the book work, takes care of the bird dogs (all 6 of them), orders all the merchandise, gets it done the way she thinks looks the best, and then she’ll run up to the lodge and peddle it. Without her, I can honestly say Pipe Creek Guide Service wouldn’t be here today.  As my little Grandma once told me, behind every successful man, there's a better woman. 

I have been a hunter since the day I was born. I was raised hunting whenever we got the chance.   For many years during college and shortly after, I guided Kansas Pheasant and Quail hunts all around Ottawa, Cloud, and Saline Counties.  I started Pipe Creek Guide Service in 1999, the year Kansas decided to let non-residents hunt our giant Kansas Whitetail Deer.  Of course, I was anxious to kick it into high gear when that happened.  In the off season ... There is no off-season anymore!!  I work on the farms trying to get them more productive. 

Here at Pipe Creek Guide Service we start hanging and trimming tree stands around the first of July up until the Kansas Muzzle Loader hunts start in late Sept..  Then in October, we were back at it, checking trail cameras, filling feeders, and finishing any stands we didn't get to earlier.  Most of the time I try to take off to hunt Colorado, Alaska, or Wyoming for a week in mid October for a little stress relief before it really gets crazy at the beginning of November.  That’s the prime time to be in a tree stand if you want to put a tag on a Monster Kansas Trophy Deer.  

We bowhunt all of November, and then the rifle season starts on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving. The Kansas Deer hunting season is only 12 days for gun, so we offer two 5-day hunts.  When that is done, we then start our Kansas Pheasant/Quail hunts.  

We hunt Pheasant and Quail until the end of January, which is the end of the Kansas season. The actual Kansas Pheasant hunting season starts the second weekend in November and runs through the last day of January.  Clayton, Stuart, or Grant do the pheasant hunt guiding. We really don’t like to take pheasant hunters before about the 15th of December.  I really want to focus on the Kansas Whitetail hunts in November and early December.  

In February, I’m trying to finish up trapping ( beavers are always a problem). Shed hunting is a passion of mine, so I start walking farms looking for new sign, potential stand locations, and, of course, antlers!!  Then I work on the farm, fixing fences, digging ponds, and so on. There is never any end to farm work, and it’s always waiting on us.  

March is also the time to start filling feeders for the Turkeys until April, when the Kansas Turkey season starts.  We hunt the beautiful Rio Grandes in our area, Kansas used to allow us 2 birds but the last few years it’s been reduced to 1 bird. The Kansas Turkey season lasts until the end of May. June is the month I’m trying to finish any major project I started on the farm. That’s our life. It revolves around Hunting 100%. 

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