YAY Hunting

Jseime · September 16, 2007, 10:33 PM

FINALLY, tomorrow morning I am going to get out of bed at 5 AM and dress up in my camo and meet my buddy at the big slough down the road.

We will be accompanied by a Remington 870 and a mossberg 500 and a whole big bunch of 3 inch magnum shotgun shells. Hopefully the geese will be coming off the water and into the field of lentils we will be laying beside. I am so excited that hunting season is here, there is something to hunt from now until december

Jseime · September 18, 2007, 01:52 PM

Well, we got three geese, two for me and one for my buddy but something was odd.

We were out in the lentil field before it got light set up all our decoys, dark and white facing into the wind. We went into the slough beside where the decoys were, set up a blind made from tall slough weeds big enough that we could both get behind in and cover our gear and for some reason everything worked really well until the geese came just about within range and then they all took off every single time a group would come at us. We caught one loner and a couple out of smaller groups.

My question is how do you set up goose decoys to be really effective? I thought they were supposed to face into the wind, are they? Where should the whites be relative to the dark geese? What kind of cover should we be using?

Wisby · September 18, 2007, 01:54 PM

I have no idea about Geese Decoys but Congrats on having something to hunt and getting the 3 ya got.

September 16, 2007, 10:33 PM	#1
Jseime Senior Member Join Date: December 31, 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,775	YAY Hunting FINALLY, tomorrow morning I am going to get out of bed at 5 AM and dress up in my camo and meet my buddy at the big slough down the road. We will be accompanied by a Remington 870 and a mossberg 500 and a whole big bunch of 3 inch magnum shotgun shells. Hopefully the geese will be coming off the water and into the field of lentils we will be laying beside. I am so excited that hunting season is here, there is something to hunt from now until december __________________ I love the smell of fresh shotgun in the morning.

September 18, 2007, 01:52 PM	#2
Jseime Senior Member Join Date: December 31, 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,775	Well, we got three geese, two for me and one for my buddy but something was odd. We were out in the lentil field before it got light set up all our decoys, dark and white facing into the wind. We went into the slough beside where the decoys were, set up a blind made from tall slough weeds big enough that we could both get behind in and cover our gear and for some reason everything worked really well until the geese came just about within range and then they all took off every single time a group would come at us. We caught one loner and a couple out of smaller groups. My question is how do you set up goose decoys to be really effective? I thought they were supposed to face into the wind, are they? Where should the whites be relative to the dark geese? What kind of cover should we be using? __________________ I love the smell of fresh shotgun in the morning.

September 18, 2007, 01:54 PM	#3
Wisby Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2005 Location: Bangor, Wa / Cypress, Tx Posts: 302	I have no idea about Geese Decoys but Congrats on having something to hunt and getting the 3 ya got. __________________ PX4 9mm, PT-140, G36, Blackhawk .45LC, Mossberg Bolt 12ga, Nova 12ga, SPS Super Mag 12ga Remington 510, M77 .280, Win 94 SSBN 733 USS Nevada (24 of the biggest guns made)