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Meet the Staff
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Travis Reininger
Professional Guide and Owner/Manager of Stillwater Outfitters LLC
I grew up on the Front Range of Colorado in a small farming
town, Brighton. I still reside in Brighton with my beautiful wife Amy and
daughter Addison. We also have 2 dogs, Gauge and Max. Gauge, the chocolate
lab, is a hunting machine and goes with me almost every day. It wouldn’t be the
same without her. Max is a Great Dane and Boxer mix. He weighs 130 pounds and
thinks he is a lap dog. Max goes with us to the field and helps set decoys, but
as soon as the guns come out he returns to the truck and guards it for us, and
looks for any lost donuts that remain there. I worked as a professional baseball umpire, attended umpire
school in 1997 after attending Western State College on a wrestling scholarship
and began working my way thru the minor league system. I got the chance in 2005
to attain one of my goals in life and umpire at the Major League level. I have recently retired as a professional umpire to continue to pursue my
life long dream in the outfitting industry. I grew up in a hunting family. My father hunted every
chance he got and involved my brother and I from a very young age. I grew up
hunting waterfowl, elk, deer, pheasant, and turkey. I love hunting all the
above, but waterfowl and archery elk is what really gets me excited. You can
find me hunting about 90- 100 days a year throughout the US. I generally hit 3
– 4 different states with Idaho and North Dakota being two of my favorite. It’s
hard to beat a late season Mallard hunt on the Snake River of Idaho
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 Mark Beam
Assistant Manager of Stillwater Outfitters LLC/ Professional Guide
Mark was raised in Central Illinois and grew up hunting the bottoms of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers for everything from Bob Whites to White Tails. While honing his craft and becoming a Master Cabinetmaker, Mark felt the need for change and in 1980 made a move to Colorado. He soon discovered an untapped bounty of ducks and geese like he had never seen. He started leasing farms and put together a small waterfowl-hunting club. After spending several years traveling the country and hunting with numerous outfitters from Canada to Mexico he decided to get into the Outfitting business himself. In 1990 he resigned as Plant Manager of a major cabinet manufacturer and started guiding duck and goose hunters full time. Along with becoming a two time Colorado State Sporting Clays Champion, he’s molded Stillwater into a highly espected outfitting service that offers duck, goose, and deer hunting as well as turkey hunting and fishing in the spring and summer. Pro Staff for Foiles Migrators and Final Approach.
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 Shane Kingsley
Professional Guide
Shane Kingsley Professional Guide. Shane was a part time guide for Stillwater for seven years and just completed his second season as a full time guide. Born and raised in Colorado, he was introduced to shooting sports and shot gunning specifically at a very young age working at Mile High Shooting Park pulling trap and helping in the Pro Shop, all the while honing his eye for wing shooting. Over time he developed a passion for water-fowling and goose hunting first and foremost. His passion for calling and hunting geese is obvious every time he takes to the field. Along with his guiding duties Shane heads up all outside operations for Stillwater, coordinating, locating and building blinds on Stillwater’s 70 plus properties. Pro Staff for Foiles Migrators and Final Approach.
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 Chris Guccione
Professional Guide/ Video Productions Manager
I was born and raised in the small mountain town of Salida, Colorado. I currently live in Brighton, Colorado with my beautiful wife, Amy, and my hunting buddy, Remington. I hunt waterfowl 90 to 100 days a year.It wasn’t until I moved to the Front Range of Colorado in 1998 that I truly caught the waterfowl bug. Growing up in the small town of Salida, there was always plenty of elk and deer to stalk after but there was very little waterfowl. My brother and I would jump shoot the Arkansas River or head down to the San Luis Valley and try our luck at decoying a green head. We would shoot a few ducks but most of the time it was nice to watch the sunrise,
pick up my dozen decoys, and head home. Now my winters are consumed with the thrill of ducks piling into the decoys or a flock of Canada’s gliding across the cut corn field, dropping, with their feet down. Going from North Dakota down to Nebraska and on to Idaho looking for that thrill and I can honestly say I never get tired of it.
Living on the Front Range of Colorado, which I call the “best kept secret for goose hunting” , what more can you want?
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 JD
JD was born and raised in Northern Colorado where he went on his first waterfowl hunt when he was 8 years old. He made his passion his job when he started guiding Waterfowl for Stillwater Outfitters in 2005. Besides being an avid waterfowler he has guided for big game and turkey hunters. Every day JD brings enthusiasm & effort to the goose pit, duck blind or woods.
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