| Title: | The Hunting Notesfile |
| Notice: | Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270 |
| Moderator: | SALEM::PAPPALARDO |
| Created: | Wed Sep 02 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1561 |
| Total number of notes: | 17784 |
I'm hoping to do some goose hunting over water along the coast.
I'm kinda new to that and was wondering if any of you have some
advice. Some of my questions are:
How many decoys do you need? (I can't carry or afford a huge
spread, so I hope numbers aren't as important as in fields.)
Will geese decoy in close to land, or should I plan to hunt from
a camo boat?
What time of day or weather is best to plan for?
Have any of you made or used Vee-boards? It's similar to those
described for sea duck in 262.10 except there are 3 'legs' not
4. The last issue of Wildfowl shows a couple of pictures of
these used with silhouttes in with some floaters. It looked
pretty good to me.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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| 269.1 | BPOV04::J_AMBERSON | Wed Nov 02 1988 14:08 | 18 | ||
Some general comments on geese:
- Early in the season you don't need as many dekes as you do later
on. Think about it. Early in the season you are probably gunning
local birds. Later on you get the big migratory flocks. However,
the more dekes the better you are regardless the time of year.
- I have found that if given a choice, geese would rather land on
water then land. I think they feel safer. When setting up, we
will try to set so that it looks like a flock that has landed
on the water and is strting to walk up on land. Leave your LZ in
a position that allows them to land into the wind and close to your
blind.
Jeff
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| 269.2 | CLUSTA::STORM | Wed Nov 02 1988 17:31 | 9 | ||
Jeff, how many floaters do you usually have???
At least at high tide, I probably won't be able to use the land
dekes at all. Can I get the geese to come into that kind of set
up, where they would be landing close to land, but not to walk ashore?
Thanks,
Mark
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| 269.3 | Do your homework | BPOV04::J_AMBERSON | Thu Nov 03 1988 08:08 | 8 | |
Sure, what you want to do with geese is to hunt them the same way
you hunt deer! Scout, find out where they are currently using and
what time of day they are using it. The idea is to be set up where
they had planned on going anyway. I use around a doz floaters and
add a mess of silluettes sp? on land. If your set up where they
have planned on setting in, they'll decoy.
Jeff
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| 269.4 | thanks | CLUSTA::STORM | Mon Nov 07 1988 14:09 | 6 | |
Makes sense to me.
Thanks Jeff,
Mark
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