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Post by bowhunterjohn on Feb 24, 2016 21:49:57 GMT -5
Well my buddy invited me along to film he and his wife for a late season Goose Hunt
Was a fun adventure, learned some new things and even got to see and film a group of geese "whiffling" really cool
here is the video:
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Post by johnc911 on Feb 25, 2016 5:12:01 GMT -5
Love your videos but in no way should they be shooting birds while they are on the ground. Nothing very sporty about that. just my opinion !!
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Post by duff on Feb 25, 2016 5:52:20 GMT -5
Good video. I would shoot a goose on the ground, in the air or while roosting in a tree :-)
Landing them in your dekes is sporty. Better than ditch slipping or pass shooting...but I would do that too! I just love shooting geese.
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Feb 25, 2016 8:15:03 GMT -5
I guess its up to the hunter.. in my honest opinion from what I read on sites people go both ways. We knock someone for shooting a running deer ? or turkey.
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Post by chubwub on Feb 25, 2016 14:26:05 GMT -5
I'm with duff, I just love killing geese no matter what. I would have popped them suckers on the ground in a heartbeat. It's not like letting them land and then letting them take off is any more sporting... they still take forever to take off, lol.
If it's good enough for the pros to show themselves killing birds on the ground on TV, then it's good enough for me.
My husband has been water-fowling for 30 years. He would much rather see a bird killed clean and stone cold dead on the ground rather than crippled by a poor shot on the wing and fly off somewhere else to slowly die from the wounds. I suppose you can think of it this way, guys take pride in being able to call a turkey in for a 20 yard shot, why shouldn't someone take pride in being able to do that with waterfowl?
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Post by throbak on Feb 25, 2016 16:45:56 GMT -5
Isn't the purpose of late season and early season to Kill geese before the set and getting rid or resident birds kind of like park hunts a reduction;?? Get em IWould
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Post by medic22 on Feb 25, 2016 16:56:20 GMT -5
Meat is meat, i dont really care if it commits suicide in front me.
Nice filming.
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Feb 25, 2016 21:38:57 GMT -5
Meat is meat, i dont really care if it commits suicide in front me. Nice filming. Thanks, first time I filmed people shooting waterfowl.. but not the last.. |
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Post by bullseye69 on Feb 25, 2016 22:06:27 GMT -5
I'm with duff, I just love killing geese no matter what. I would have popped them suckers on the ground in a heartbeat. It's not like letting them land and then letting them take off is any more sporting... they still take forever to take off, lol. If it's good enough for the pros to show themselves killing birds on the ground on TV, then it's good enough for me. My husband has been water-fowling for 30 years. He would much rather see a bird killed clean and stone cold dead on the ground rather than crippled by a poor shot on the wing and fly off somewhere else to slowly die from the wounds. I suppose you can think of it this way, guys take pride in being able to call a turkey in for a 20 yard shot, why shouldn't someone take pride in being able to do that with waterfowl? You said it!!!  If your good enough to get them to land next to you , you deserve the shot. Its dang hard to get resident geese to come into a place they arn't used to coming into. So if they do and they land BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by esshup on Feb 28, 2016 0:45:46 GMT -5
Ditto!! Good filming. On the ground or in the air, they get shot. It's a goose reduction hunt for resident birds, so the more that are shot the better.
Heck, I had a lone gander land on the edge of the pond. I snuck up on him and popped him on the ground and didn't think twice about it. That was back on the 8th.
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Post by duff on Feb 28, 2016 8:47:22 GMT -5
Maybe it's just the areas I hunt but the Feb season sure has impacted the areas I hunt. The spots in LaPorte co are slim picking. I don't see the big groups in Indy area anymore either. I know there are still big groups out there but I just don't see it like I used to.
Anyone else notice a decent drop in birds in their area?
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Post by esshup on Feb 28, 2016 15:11:19 GMT -5
Here, during the late season, it's all about where the food is. If the birds cannot get to food easily, they congregate in areas where there IS food.
I went to the Indy Sport show yesterday, and saw equal amounts of Sandhills and Geese along the Wabash and Kankakee rivers in wet areas of the fields. Lots of both types of birds.
There's more than a couple hundred geese in the area around Plymouth too. The big flocks are starting to split up now, and pairs are looking for suitable nesting sites.
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Post by duff on Feb 28, 2016 19:14:00 GMT -5
90% of the birds I have hunted were local giants from other cities versus any true migrators. We would get a few interior geese and bands from canada but most are from indiana, Michigan or Wisconsin. The difference between now and 10 yrs ago are to the tune of 30-50 birds a year to me!
I am lucky to kill 5 a year these days.
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Post by bullseye69 on Feb 29, 2016 18:22:41 GMT -5
Maybe it's just the areas I hunt but the Feb season sure has impacted the areas I hunt. The spots in LaPorte co are slim picking. I don't see the big groups in Indy area anymore either. I know there are still big groups out there but I just don't see it like I used to. Anyone else notice a decent drop in birds in their area? I have seen more geese since the late season closed than I did all last year!!! They are figging everywhere. |
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