2017 Waterfowl season

1963beretta

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No threads on the upcoming waterfowl season as of yet? What gives?? Two weeks left before the season opens in my hunting grounds and I cant wait. Guns and ammo are ready and calls have been tuned. Time to get the blinds brushed up!
 
1963beretta said:
No threads on the upcoming waterfowl season as of yet? What gives?? Two weeks left before the season opens in my hunting grounds and I cant wait. Guns and ammo are ready and calls have been tuned. Time to get the blinds brushed up!
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Trailer is loaded, order of shells is in, fields are lined up, here's hoping for early season limits of honkers!
 
Got The blind built, boat is in perfect working order. Still lots of shells left from last year, just getting decoys in order. Get some new weights for them and get them strung.


Where is everyone going to hunt first. Water or field?
 
Been shooting clays once a week and getting primed. Got another dozen decoys and another blind ready to go and have been eyeing up the pea fields that the farmers have been opening up.
 
Building the blind next week but have to wait tell the opener. Shells and guns ready, shot loads of clays this summer, can't wait. Plan to do field hunts and water hunts this year. How is opener in 2 weeks though is it not on the 25th?
 
I'm fishing primarily from this fall forward instead. Losing interest in the hunting it seems other than potting a few grouse and doing a little gopher and varmint control. Sold my layout blinds, duck floaters and 12 dozen mixed Canada's, Blues and Snow Real Geese silos of my goose spread off. Kept my 16 dozen Snow socks and 8 flyers to join my buddy Chisholm on the occasional Snow hunt plus kept my e-caller and crow decoys and sold off all my surplus firearms as well. I'm down to one trap gun (TM1), one O/U (101DU), my grandfathers old single shot 410, a 10/22, a mini-14 ranch rifle, my gramps Model 71 and my great grandfathers Model 64 30-30. The last time the 64 was hunted with was 1981 when I carried it to hunt Vancouver Island Blacktails with my Grandfather and last time his 71 saw action was 2009 when I shot a whitetail with it at Deerdr's place. Hasn't been out since.
 
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Just heard a small flock of 8 birds fly over head dropping into the Fraser River...
The low throaty murmur they when they are committed to land or in this case splash onto the river.
Wait for it..wait ....Take 'Em !
Rob
 
Ranger_scout92 said:
Building the blind next week but have to wait tell the opener. Shells and guns ready, shot loads of clays this summer, can't wait. Plan to do field hunts and water hunts this year. How is opener in 2 weeks though is it not on the 25th?
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Early goose starts on the 7th in southern Ontario. For me, thats the start of waterfowl season
 
the spank said:
Waterfowl season opens Sept 1 out here for all waterfowl. Birds are starting to migrate already. Have seen good numbers of Sandhills, some Pelicans and a few Canadas on the move so far.
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Do you guys have a sandhill season? How is it hunting them? Hear they taste pretty good!
 
September 1st here... don't think I will get out until October as I am gearing up for a hunt, most of September is shot (pun intended).
 
Although it opens in Alberta on September 1st, I'll wait until late September and mid October. I'm only targeting white fronted geese, and they are the best eating and fun bird to hunt.
 
I have never hunted waterfowl before but this year I am going to try my best to shoot exactly one Canada goose to try goose jerky. Who am I kidding, I'm going to shoot as many as I can and find recipes for the extra later!
 
Wellse said:
Do you guys have a sandhill season? How is it hunting them? Hear they taste pretty good!
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Yes we have a Sandhill season here. 5 birds per day limit. Taste? Well my hunting partner likes them, I have tried them and to me they taste identical to the way one of these western sloughs smell when walking through it and I am not being sarcastic!! Most horrible tasting thing I have ever put in my mouth. Sirloin of the sky they say? Maybe but I've never eaten sirloin that tasted the way I imagine the underside of a live frog would?! And I'm not licking a frog to find out!!
 
Wellse said:
Do you guys have a sandhill season? How is it hunting them? Hear they taste pretty good!
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Ribeyes in the sky. Hunting in Manitoba we usually bag corn or grain fed Sandhills, wonderful tasting.
We`re all ready for next week and will be heading three hours north of Winnipeg for three days of goose hunting. After scouting, we found our hunting fields full of ducks and geese.
Heading to Cabela`s tomorrow for the last day sale (25% off some) of shotgun shells.

DF
 
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