Welcome to the Hage Family Hunting Blog

Welcome to the Hage Family Hunting Blog. My goal is to share with family and friends the stories and pictures of various hunting adventures of the Hage Family over the past years, and introduce you to new family members as well. Our family adventures began in the 1930s when grandpa Abner took his sons Robert and John on various hunting trips in Minnesota.

One such adventure, as Robert, Sr., recalls it was a trip to Lac Qui Parle river via car from Minneapolis, MN. Lac Qui Parle river area is west of Montevideo, MN and is now a state game refuge and hosts thousands of Canada geese and mallards yearly. They hunted in an all-steel welded boat that grandpa created (see picture in this section); Robert called it a "death trap" because you sat on the bottom (no seats) and the water level was at the top of the boat. He still can't figure out how it even floated. And, it weighed a ton! They used wooden decoys created by Abner (large blocks of carved wood, painted black with green heads).