Goose season opener

ben hunchak

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Got my limit of Geese this a.m., gave 1 to the landowner, all were taken with, Black Powder handloads using bismuth shot. Lots of Canadas, no Snows yet.I just wish i could post pictures.......oh yea, hunted in the Prince Albert, Sask. area, not far from home.....gotta go clean 'em now....if anyone knows how i can upload pic let me know(I'm old school so don't use terms like photo bucket)
 
I'm going to be doing all my upland hunting this year with an old LC Smith Ideal Grade and handloaded black powder brass shells. I'd hunt ducks with it too but the marsh is no place for a gun like that.

Congrats.
 
I was using a relatively modern SXS, a Zoli with 32" barrels, 2 3/4" chamber, M & F chokes, I don't use my damascus barrelled Nock, hammergun with Jones underlever, for heavy loads.....1 1/4oz. of Bismuth 2s and 110grs. of 2fg. Wano BP.
I'm pretty sure all shots were within 35 yds.
 
Still can't figure out the picture thing......weather was overcast, slight breeze from the north, 2 dozen decoys out in the only harvested pea field around. They really come in to those pea fields, even those flying way up there!!
 
i wish i was still in the pas
opening day starts for me tommorrow sept 8th
there is no way i will be sleeping tonight
truck,canoe,decs,shells,calls,my dog knows whats coming hes sleeping by the back door just in case he's not forgotten as if
i made the mistake of checking my spot on saturday omg some many birds
 
Have been out for 2 evening hunts now, and a morning hunt comes thursday.
I have not seen one goose, ...
none in the air or anywhere.

I also head to work just when the sun is coming up and drive 60k through farmland. Have yet to see any.

What is going on??? There's something keeping them north of here
 
I havent seen very many geese here yet. Although I have seen more in the last week then I have all summer. I'm not sure if they just arent around or if it was a bad year for hatchlings or what. I'll still giver a go this weekend,

Shoot some crows if I have to lol
 
I can tell you what I have seen



GULLS !!!!

They're everywhere. I don't mean 20 or 30, but hundreds, and flying in flocks. There are more gulls around here this year than back home when the caplin are rolling!
 
Seems like a good spot for an update.


For the first time this season I have seen some flocks of geese.
I saw about 500 snows just east of Regina and about the same in Canada's

I also saw a few mallards, but nothing worth really noting.

It looks like things are still slow here in Southern Sask, but beginning to really pick up the past couple of days. (this is the story around my area)

There are more coyotes than I can count as well.
 
Lots of waterfowl, all kinds around here ( central Sask) this year. While sighting in my elk rifle last week I had an interesting experience, 5 flocks of geese went over, every one a different species -lesser Canadas, greater Canadas, mixed snow & blues, ross', and a flock of specklebellies. I went out this afternoon for a quick duck hunt with my Pudelpointer and a 16 ga. We got a limit of 8 ducks in less than an hour, jump shooting along the country roads. It was a real good day, and the first five ducks were killed with five shots, then my shooting deteriorated somewhat, took 6 shots to get the last 3. Variety was amazing. The first five were a mallard, gadwall, blue wing teal, shoveler, and widgeon, and then when I was shooting at a greenwing teal a canvasback was in the wrong place at the wrong time and that's what I got. Then a couple more blue wing teal. Nice to get some honest work out of the dog for a change. I know he enjoyed it too. Tomorrow morning it's off to elk camp, with a bit of ruffed grouse hunting on the side. I love September!
 
I am amazed by the numbers of blue wing teals. I took a limit on them the other day, and it wasn;t becasue I was singling them out.

Have you ever taken a cinnamon teal? I had one 3 years ago. time back I would have had him stuffed and mounted.

15 C today, so that's great, but 20 again tomorrow.

I am surrounded by pea fields, and they are full of peas, but not getting any action whatsoever yet. Not long now I suspect.
 
Got six Geese this a.m. as they were moving around alot, lots of Snow geese flying around, I got two and chased a wounded one around for awhile and lost it. I ran out of Bismuth/BP handloads and used some steel, it just doesn't kill as well. Usually they don't fly so much when the sky is clear like today, however it is getting colder in the a.m. and that has 'em moving. Too many ducks to even shoot at, they kept coming in to our goose decoys in the pea field. The amount of ducks has to be seen to be believed!!
 
sealhunter said:
I am amazed by the numbers of blue wing teals. I took a limit on them the other day, and it wasn;t becasue I was singling them out.

Have you ever taken a cinnamon teal? I had one 3 years ago. time back I would have had him stuffed and mounted.

15 C today, so that's great, but 20 again tomorrow.

I am surrounded by pea fields, and they are full of peas, but not getting any action whatsoever yet. Not long now I suspect.
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Betting you've shot a lot cinnamons already if you hunt the west. This time of year they are indistinguishable from bluewings except by trained biologists.
Even harvest stats list the kill as "Cinn/Bluewing teal" due to the similarities in their eclipse plummage. The lake I hunt only seems to have Cinns in the spring so I guess that when I list BWT as the duck I shot it should really be Cinn. Since I was raised shooting BWT's I just call them all BWT's without trying to compare bill size to determine which is which.
 
i have 24 decoys out in the pea field and i just sit among them with a camo groundsheet over me, sometimes i can't get up quick enough to shoot. I look like a beetle on it's back sometimes!! Meanwhile the Geese are trying to land!!
 
The cinnamon I shot was the "poster" duck for cinnamons.

He was amazing looking. He seemed to have a mating plumage to him.
He was very distinguishable from the others, but not as red as I'm sure he was in the spring.

All the others, I never knew they looked the same in the fall until you just said it.
Perhaps I have shot many, I guess more accurately, I have shot one that was in "strange" plummage for the time of year.
He looked almost identical to ones you'd find if you googled for images of the cinnamon in mating plummage.
 
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