Hunting with bare hands? Legal?

I'm thinking city geese wouldn't be the best eating either....I remember throwing cigarette butts at them when I was younger and they would pick them up and gobble them down, must of thought it was a piece of bread. LOL
 
DVXDUDE said:
I'm thinking city geese wouldn't be the best eating either....I remember throwing cigarette butts at them when I was younger and they would pick them up and gobble them down, must of thought it was a piece of bread. LOL
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Good point, Im sure the geese there are well fed with butts
 
cote_b said:
So today I was walking from my prking lot at the school campus to the University and I walked past the soccer field as I do every morning, and as usual, there were loads of big Canada geese on it. Today, 3 of them happend to wander out of the field and were right along side the path from the parking lot. I stopped and watched them and they got as close as 5 feet from me. I was thinking, since I have my migratory game bird license and Im not discharging a firearm, could I have just lunged at one, grabbed it by the neck and killed it? Maybe not the mose humane way to do it, but it would have been easy at the time. Is this something thats illegal or generally frowned upon?
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Im sure every student at the university of wawa loo eagerly thinks the same question. They sure beat pizza pops for supper!.:D

Im also thinking that killing migratory birds inside of city limits is kinda off limits.:(
 
cote_b said:
So today I was walking from my prking lot at the school campus to the University and I walked past the soccer field as I do every morning, and as usual, there were loads of big Canada geese on it. Today, 3 of them happend to wander out of the field and were right along side the path from the parking lot. I stopped and watched them and they got as close as 5 feet from me. I was thinking, since I have my migratory game bird license and Im not discharging a firearm, could I have just lunged at one, grabbed it by the neck and killed it? Maybe not the mose humane way to do it, but it would have been easy at the time. Is this something thats illegal or generally frowned upon?
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I wanna see this when the goose turns the table and kicks yer but Laugh2
 
I have doubts that the OP would have success as quickly as he thinks he would have.
A former co-worker of mine used to guide American hunters for migratory birds.
One client wounded a Canada Goose over the decoys and tried to snap it's neck. (against everyone's advice) The critter was in no mood to play and promptly hit the hunter with one of it's wings.
He dropped it and almost passed out right there. He later described it was as if he had been struck in the head with a billy club.
 
Yeah Im not saying it would have been easy as it sounds. But I was easily close enough to have a good shot at grabbing it. Big canada geese wouldn't be easy to subdue. Im sure they are more poweful than I think they are too. Even if it was legal, I likely wouldn't go through with it. I was just curious if such a thing was in fact legal. The idea brifely crossed my mind as I stood there and watched them waddle past me, probably 5-6 feet away.
 
7mmlefty said:
Im sure every student at the university of wawa loo eagerly thinks the same question. They sure beat pizza pops for supper!.:D

Im also thinking that killing migratory birds inside of city limits is kinda off limits.:(
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Yeah thats what I was thinking too, espcially since it was on University property. Oh well, I don't think I was really planning to go through with it anyway, just wondering if it was legal, since I already knew putting a hunting blind on the soccer field was already a no-go:D
 
I've seen some kids do it in the North a couple of times. They grab it and then put the bird's body between the ground and their knee. It can't breath and dies.
 
So I step outside the house today - and look up to see five geese about to go over the house - a thought crosses my mind - wondering if a .22.... then I look down as I hear one honk - then I hear a tat-tat-tat-tat on the tin roof of my shed - like a metal roof expanding in the sunlight - but I am puzzled - so I get a ladder and go up on the roof to find that I had been bombed by grass-green goose crap - and they had missed by only three feet to one side - a long line of it - obviously gave exactly the right lead - maybe a little crosswind. Maybe sixty-seventy yards up - never saw it coming.
 
Back in high school we had to go on a run for phys ed class, we went down through the nearby golf course and one of the fairways had a flock of geese on it. My friend thought it would be a good idea to go after them, so off he goes running towards this flock of geese. Well ####, the whole damn flock turned on him once he got to them. Watching him scream and kicking at these attacking geese while trying to get away was so funny that several of us were on the ground laughing so hard we couldn't get up.
 
Speaking of killing animals by hand....
sealhunter said:
Well if you read my partridge come back to life story, and rabbit with a snow scraper, than the moose with a wiperblade will be a let down.

I was berry picking one day when I was about 12. It was home in Newfoundland, blueberries in the fall. I had just about filled my bucket and out of the corner of my eye I saw a big , very big bull moose. He was watching me very closely. I got a bit scared and started to back away slowly, hoping inch by inch, foot by foot, I'd creep back to the hpuse which was about 700 or 800 yrds away.

Also out in these berry bushes was decent 4x4 bath. I was standing on the path shaking. I'd go left, the moose went left. I'd go right, the moose would go right. He was scuffing the ground and making quick little runs towards me and then stop solid. Maybe only coming 5 or 6 feet closer each time.

In newfoundland berry picking is quite big and there is demand for them. I had what is known as a picker. A steel scoop like a shovel, with a handle, and teeth like a comb. I stumbled around after falling down from walking backwards and had my picker ready to jab the moose in the face. I found a wiper blade on the ground where I had fallen,. with wiper balse in one hand, and picker in the other, I got up and started running home. The moose gave chase with several big snorts.

about 80 yrds from my house themoose got in between me and the basement door. We have a picnic table in the backyard just beyond the door.

I'd heard that if you hit anything, even a polar bear behind the ear, it would go down. This was my plan. I'd run, jump on the table, and being a little higher than the mooses head I'd be able to hit him with some good force with my picker. Meanwhile I still had the wiper blade in my hand.

I ran or the picnic table and jumped up. at this point I could have saddled and rode the damn moose. He was right there. I took the picker and swung with all I had, and long before my arm reached full force and speed to deliver the fatal blow, the picker hit his antlers and vibrated out of my hand.
I did not think, I did not blink, I simply reacted.... I rose up wit the wiper blade, swung my arms out at full span, fists with palms facing up, and the wiper blade gripped tightly with my right fist. I drew them together with all my might driving the wiperblade in through the mooses ear canal, and he immediately dropped. He groaned and rolled around and I ran in the house and got dads shotgun. Dad was a bird hunter and all I could grab was his hunting bag, shotgun, and whatever shells were in the bag.

I ran out to the moose and put the gun with number 7.5 shotgun shells on him. I did not fire a shot, the moose was already dead. Dad got home within a space of 5 minutes after that, and here is me in the yard with his gun and a dead moose. He almost lost it, and all I could do was muumer the words through my snot and tears,"I,I I, killed it with the Wiper blade not your stupid gun" He was amazed, and actually though I had still shot it and put a wiper in it's ear. After about an hour and the Wildlife officers and the local newpaper, it was clear the moose was not shot. We were not allowed to keep the moose cause the Wildlife wanted to run tests on it to see why it was going so close to me and followed me rather then just running away.
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Joe549 said:
Back in high school we had to go on a run for phys ed class, we went down through the nearby golf course and one of the fairways had a flock of geese on it. My friend thought it would be a good idea to go after them, so off he goes running towards this flock of geese. Well s**t, the whole damn flock turned on him once he got to them. Watching him scream and kicking at these attacking geese while trying to get away was so funny that several of us were on the ground laughing so hard we couldn't get up.
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That's very funny!
 
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