Hunt Information

Guide Staff History

Brad Stout grew up in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and is relatively new to north central Kansas. He believes Kansas to be an "outdoorsman’s paradise," though one thing he misses is the big game hunting of Colorado. He and his wife, Danna, spend time working with their adolescent birddogs that they whelped from their own Shorthair and Viszla strains.

Troy Tonne is another local bachelor that took his KSU Agronomy degree and spent 4 years working for a crop consulting business in Southwest Kansas. He has joined his family’s traditional farming business which includes providing high quality hay for suburban horse stables. The Tonnes are also gamebird producers and hunting service operators, in addition to recently establishing a sporting clay course located about 14 miles east of the ranch.

Steve Wirth is a resident of the nearby Barnard community. He and his wife, Laura, and their two young boys (aka: The Wrecking Crew) participate in a family farming operation and are developing a wonderful valley as a hunter’s paradise. Steve’s experience as an avid sportsman provides the basis for a great hunt of several species.

Dewayne Burgess is a college friend of Keith’s that has hunted on and around the ranch for over 25 years. Dewayne was the youngest of a family of sports-persons on a family farm near Wamego, Kansas. A KSU graduate in Wildlife Biology, he has been a fighter and instructor pilot for the USAF and Air Force Reserve and now administrates the A-10 Wart Hog Squadron at a nearby air base. He and his wife, Jo, live near Topeka. They own the local Western Tack Store, keep serious barrel racing horses and a huge pack of Brittanys.

David Wacker’s homestead is 9 miles south of the ranch where he has established a farming and cow-calf operation, along with a new gamebird nursery and growing facility. David started helping at the ranch in a support role during the mid 90’s. After following the guides for a while, he developed his own platoon of German Shorthairs and Wirehairs. David, and his wife Lynn, have two children, Erin and Ryan. Ryan works as a guide at Ringneck Ranch also.

Ricky Foutch is also an airline MD-80 Captain that happens to be married to another airline captain. Born and raised in rural Oklahoma, he and Janet live near Dallas, where they home schooled their teenage son, Matt, with the help of the internet. Guests that have hunted with Ricky Dale fiercely negotiate to book him as their guide for their hunts! They tell us he leaves a great swath through the heavy cover and you always can hear where he is. Rick, also the victim of tenuous airline employment has parlayed his computer expertise with internet business ventures into a career alternative.