Snow Geese Hunting - need some tips

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So Ive been reading up on snow geese and this year I want to bag a few. There's a season open for them now in Eastern Ontario which is adjacent to where I live in Ottawa. I have a licence, a 12 guage, a potential farm on which to shoot them, and some time on my hands. What I dont have is experience, or decoys. I've read that that most hunters set out hundreds of decoys and/ or use electronic callers to get them close. Problem is, I dont have any of these and transporting hundreds of plastic geese in a VW isn't practical.

Do I really need these ? I know they would help but is there other techniques that someone out there could pass along to help me out ? I've been Canada Goose hunting before, used a few decoys, hid under cover in a field and got lucky. I was planning on crafting a make-shift blind or just hiding behind a round bale or in a ditch. Would this work ?

any advice on this would be great. Thanks in advace, and good luck if you're heading out..
 
Don't know about that area but where I hunt, geese fly over the same "trail" about 200 feet wide year after year. Makes things nice and easy.
 
Alot of guys including me use pampers diapers (not used ones)just lay them out like decoys works good for us and pretty cheap. They will last quite a long time depending on how wet they get.

stay safe
pounder
 
My first priority for geese is scouting for location, Find where they are roosting for the night and feeding during the day, get permission to be there and setup as close to underneath their flight path as possible. Like clatartar said get underneath that 200 m wide flight path and your going to have greater chances for success.

I use a dozen decoys, maybe a few homemade cardboard cutouts and few different $10 crappy tire goose calls and have success. you can have all the expensive gear you want but if your not where the birds are your just wasting your time.
 
Best bet if you don't have decoys is to wait until your field is full, then stalk in and jump shoot them.

It is not a case of having a place to hunt, it is a case of having permission for a place the birds are actually using. I don't bother with the spring hunt, I don't have the time or money to be effective. Even the outfitters around me will not guarantee a good snow goose hunt.

The diaper tricks and such may work on young snows coming south for the first time, but not educated snows that have survived 8 months of shooting.
 
This is a great start fellas, thanks. I'm going to take a drive this afternoon until it starts to get dark and have a look around. Where do Snow geese "roost?" do they congregate on rivers, ponds, or do they hang out in fields as well ?
 
1bighead said:
This is a great start fellas, thanks. I'm going to take a drive this afternoon until it starts to get dark and have a look around. Where do Snow geese "roost?" do they congregate on rivers, ponds, or do they hang out in fields as well ?
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They roost on water or adjacent to water.
 
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