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Post by genesis273 on Sept 1, 2024 4:08:05 GMT -5
Good morning everyone! Do you know where your geese are?!
The field we're hunting this morning has about 120 feeding in it last night. They flew off right at dark to a large pond about 2 miles from our set up.
Layout blinds are already brushed in and our 8 man hide looks amazing! Leaving here in a few moments to meet half the guys and then to the field to put some decoys out.
Good luck everyone! Hunt safe and God Bless!
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Post by duff on Sept 1, 2024 5:29:24 GMT -5
Good morning everyone! Do you know where your geese are?! The field we're hunting this morning has about 120 feeding in it last night. They flew off right at dark to a large pond about 2 miles from our set up. Layout blinds are already brushed in and our 8 man hide looks amazing! Leaving here in a few moments to meet half the guys and then to the field to put some decoys out. Good luck everyone! Hunt safe and God Bless! Sounds like a 40 bird morning! I had a spot like that one year, but it was closer to 250 birds. In that field, every time I checked the week leading up to the 1st. On the 1st, when they flew off the roost... not a single one flew by us....we did all we could do. Luck swings both ways, and that was totally unlucky. Pretty much waterfowl hunting in a nut shell. |
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 1, 2024 5:47:03 GMT -5
All set and ready to go! We can hear geese already. Setting up decoys this morning... View from my layout blind.... Our hide after blinding it in last night...    |
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 1, 2024 6:28:25 GMT -5
Well...the boys on the right side of the hide got a few on the first group (maybe a dozen in it). The other groups of geese are flying right of us and landing in a fresh chopped silage field on the other side of the woods. These geese came from a pond about a quarter mile behind us. They weren't in there last night when we left.
Still hoping for a few more groups.
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 1, 2024 9:02:12 GMT -5
Opening morning is in the books. We had a couple more small groups pass a little bit south of us but, couldn't get them to work.
Fun morning anyhow!
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Post by duff on Sept 1, 2024 9:43:22 GMT -5
That is hunting. My farmer isn't cutting silage for another week in a half. May get 1 goose hunt but should be good for the doves
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Post by marshallco on Sept 1, 2024 22:42:47 GMT -5
Those are great photos regardless of anything you shot. Well done Genesis!
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 2, 2024 15:49:47 GMT -5
Those are great photos regardless of anything you shot. Well done Genesis! Thanks! I was a great time anyhow; |
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Post by esshup on Sept 3, 2024 9:48:53 GMT -5
I'm glad that you got on some birds. The geese that were coming to the field behind the house for close to 3 weeks read the calendar and stopped showing up the morning of Sept 1. They haven't been back.
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Post by marshallco on Sept 3, 2024 21:30:53 GMT -5
What time were they showing up in the morning Esshup? Wonder if they got bounced off a roost or shot at beforehand to throw their schedule. That’s bird hunting though.
May try our hand at teal this coming weekend, too much stuff going last weekend to get out.
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Post by esshup on Sept 3, 2024 23:16:13 GMT -5
What time were they showing up in the morning Esshup? Wonder if they got bounced off a roost or shot at beforehand to throw their schedule. That’s bird hunting though. May try our hand at teal this coming weekend, too much stuff going last weekend to get out. They were showing up anywhere from 6:30-11 am, leaving in small family groups by 1pm, then starting to show up again around 4pm until about 6:30, then they'd leave about 45 minutes after sunset. They were flying in from 2 different directions, Swan Lake Golf Course and from by Pioneer Seeds on Rt. 30. Swan Lake is due West, Pioneer is SE from me. They all bailed out of the field about 5:30 pm (early for them) on the 31st. No reason to leave, they weren't disturbed. Like I said, they have a calendar with them. This isn't the first year that they've done that. They did the same thing last year when it was in alfalfa. The family of Sandhills is still visiting, as are the 13 turkeys. |
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Post by marshallco on Sept 7, 2024 20:56:30 GMT -5
Well I about screwed up big time. Planned on a teal hunt tomorrow with my son, nephew and one of their friends. Along with 2 other of my friends. One of my buddies let me know that teal season was out, and not in till next weekend. I did print out the migratory sheet, but obviously didn’t pay close enough attention. My luck would be that we would have clobbered them tomorrow, posted a bunch of pics, and then get to explain to the local CO. Was really looking forward to it, supposed to be a low of 43. May go out to sit and watch anyway.
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 8, 2024 0:28:19 GMT -5
Close call! I'm glad you got the Intel in time. I'm hoping to finish up my blind tomorrow so it'll be ready next weekend.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 8, 2024 10:01:30 GMT -5
Well I about screwed up big time. Planned on a teal hunt tomorrow with my son, nephew and one of their friends. Along with 2 other of my friends. One of my buddies let me know that teal season was out, and not in till next weekend. I did print out the migratory sheet, but obviously didn’t pay close enough attention. My luck would be that we would have clobbered them tomorrow, posted a bunch of pics, and then get to explain to the local CO. Was really looking forward to it, supposed to be a low of 43. May go out to sit and watch anyway. I saw your post but I figured it was a mistake on your part and didn't want to say anything. DON'T forget that shooting time for TEAL is not till sunrise as apposed to 1/2 hour before sunrise. |
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Post by marshallco on Sept 8, 2024 21:01:44 GMT -5
Please feel free to call out me being dumb, it happens on a daily basis. My wife has no problem with it 🤓
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Post by marshallco on Sept 8, 2024 21:07:18 GMT -5
 I did just go sit this morning, it was a beautiful morning. Cool, crisp 43 degrees. These 2 Sandhills were in front of me for 30-45 mins, they were there when I got there at dark-thirty. |
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Post by marshallco on Sept 8, 2024 21:12:00 GMT -5
 Saw about 30-35 birds flying, about 20 or so lit in the pond I was on. Hard to see, but that’s a group in front of me about 30-35 yards. I’d say mostly woodies, a couple mallards and at least a group of 6 teal came in. Those teal are about impossible to tell from woodies at first light. |
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Post by duff on Sept 9, 2024 19:31:59 GMT -5
Saw about 30-35 birds flying, about 20 or so lit in the pond I was on. Hard to see, but that’s a group in front of me about 30-35 yards. I’d say mostly woodies, a couple mallards and at least a group of 6 teal came in. Those teal are about impossible to tell from woodies at first light. I never realized that spoonies migrate down early too. Ask me how we learnt that. They have the light blue wing patch and similar flight patterns to teal...of course that flock we knocked down multiple |
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Post by marshallco on Sept 9, 2024 22:14:13 GMT -5
I much prefer regular season, shoot first then see what ya got. Can’t ever remember being worried about bag limits with our shooting skills.
My understanding of the seasons was WAY off, teal doesn’t come in till this Saturday. Glad I looked at the regs today, I thought they coincided with geese. At any rate, we have a few small ponds, and the best plan I have is to let them land, then hopefully bounce them from one pond to another. Everything was done flying well before sunrise. Got a pretty good idea how my plan will turn out 👎
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Post by duff on Sept 10, 2024 3:35:58 GMT -5
Good luck.
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