Author Topic: These are Fun Game (Read 566 times)

Fred M · « **on:** October 23, 2005, 06:09:57 PM »

Snow geese are here again. They are fun to hunt if you got 500 decoys.

The one in the middle, nice shot, dead bird. Any body like to come goose hunting with me? 3" 20g 1-1/8 #3 Tungsten Matrix is the medicine

Nixter · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:30:43 AM »

Great pic Fred. Thanks for posting it.

Was at a friends house yesterday and saw some guys hunting snows. Thay were in lawnchairs in the decoy spread!! I couldn't beleive the sheer number of birds in the air at one time, the noise most be incredible in person.

Jon and I decided that we must get to Canada someday.

Right after I get to Montana for p'dogs.

Are snows good eating? What are the daily limits like?

Thanks again.

Nixter

aulrich · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:58:52 AM »

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Any body like to come goose hunting with me?

Would not take much to convince me!!! Time could be an issue though :cry:

hellacatcher · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:46:29 AM »

My nephew just got back from Canada on a goose hunt said he had had a ball.

Fred M · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:44:47 PM »

Nixter.
The limit for Snow Geese is 20 a day with a 60 possession limit..
Canada Geese are 8 per day and 16 possession limit.

I hunted geese for more years than I can recount. The honking noise when they come into your spread will never fail to raise my hackles and get the adrenelin going. Its like a sand storm prickling your bare skin.

My hunting pardner and I who is now gone to heaven, we bagged 250 geese each season. We fed all the poor folks around the country. Now I only take one or two and give them away. I hunt three days every week during open season.

The work is the same whether you hunt one or twenty, up at 4am to set up til seven then get a couple of shots and quit shooting and then only call them in. Nothing like it.

Nixter · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2005, 05:37:54 AM »

Fred, thanks for the information.

20 a day?! That's alot of shooting. Might take me two boxes of shells to get all 20 the way I've been shooting lately. :roll:

With all due respect to your style of hunting, if I drove 1300 miles for a goose hunt, I would take the max number of birds I could.

Good on you for sharing your bounty though.

Are that many decoys really necessary? We hunt over maybe 3 dozen at the most around here. Inquiring minds want to know.

Thanks again

Nixter

Fred M · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2005, 06:47:05 AM »

Nixter.
When you hunt Canada's 3doz decoys work ok you wont get any big flocks but doubles four's sometimes more.

When I hunt alone I use 24 of the big Magnum Henriettas. With some help I put out 8 doz for Canada's.

Snows with a hundred decoys would be a minimum. They are not my favorite birds and they are tough eating. You got to be pretty hungry to eat them. But that is my opinion, others think they are fine eating.