Went out for geese last Saturday, 3 of us. All wearing the fall flight shadow grass camo in a cut grain field. Run into 3 other guys who have permission to hunt the same field, I have seen them there before and they seem like nice gents. These guys basically have no camo. So I tell the one guy we sit right in the decoys, have huge corn camo burlap sheets for the less hardcore to cover up with, and ask them to join us. He says no thanks we will just hunt the fence line and get the birds we dont get after we shoot at them. So now the birds are piling in, most of which are flairing at the last minute, hmmmm, wouldnt be the guys with brite yellow faces and white eyeballs. Then they proceed to start shooting at the birds who are just coming over top of the trees, that are ready to drop into the decoys. They pretty muched missed all of them anyways. He told me that they were not into hunting birds that much anyway, so it didnt matter if they got anything too much or not. They had about 6 or 7 silhouette decoys, to our 4 dozen shells and magnums. We took time setting out the decoys just right, and they just plunked their decoys in about a 6 foot radius. I hate it when you put the time and money and effort into trying your hardest to do some harvesting, when people like this show up with no cares. Time to search out another field this Saturday I think.
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- Thread starter Cletus
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Thats an improvement over my opening day, saw 7 birds total, nothing we could get to even look our way. We did get 8 wood ducks to land within a few feet of us, but duck season doesn't open till the 23rd here. We were less than 5 miles northeast of Luther Marsh, which normally sounds like an artillary barrage on opening day and didn't hear a shot from that direction.
I always try to secure my spots for just "me" and whoever I bring. I can relate with you, my friend wanted to take some NEWBS' goose hunting. I said it was fine if they had full camo and could sit still for a while. These guys show up with red hats and bright jackets. I told them "no way" Why am I gonna spend my money to buy camo, dekes and spend time scouting to have them ruin my hunt because they think" birds are dumb" and "they can't see that good" I have no problems taking new guys out but when they are totally un-prepared it makes all your preparation and equipment useless. We have also had americans ty to set up in a field that they didn't have permission to use. We let them hunt with us because they had 16 dozen full-bodies
and 7 layout blinds. Now they come every year and we get them all flucked up on "Canadian" beer. lol
and 7 layout blinds. Now they come every year and we get them all flucked up on "Canadian" beer. lolHe is the type of fellow who doesnt care who is on the property, he just cares if they ask permission first. We had exclusive permission starting at least 12 years ago, up until about 3 or 4 years ago for deer. Hot spot. Now he lets pretty much anybody on there. Now there is 2 to 3 other guys who are over the course of the years learning how to intercept our deer!todbartell said:why does the landowner give permission for the whole year? it'd make more sense to me if you'd have to call them and secure the field for a morning, instead of taking your chances with sharing the field with some f**ktards
But that is not going to stop us, we just scout harder and earlier for deer, and hunt closer.
Republic of Alberta
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Your the one that asked them to join you.
i had an assclown set up about 80 yards away from me while moose hunting 2 years ago.he even went as far as taking off his orange so i could not see him.one of my partners went down to inform him he was in my shooting lane.his reply was tell him not to shoot this way.mine was tell him to duck cause i see no orange its legal to shoot that way.he left after 45 min. or so
Only asked him to join us because of their poor choice in camo patterns, as to help us all out. Trust me, if I would have found another field (that was cut at the time) with the same amount of birds in the night before, I would have parked me arse in there in a heart beat. Just kinda sucks when you have no where else to go at the time. Oh well, grin and bare it I guess.Republic of Alberta said:
canadian hunter312
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todbartell said:why does the landowner give permission for the whole year? it'd make more sense to me if you'd have to call them and secure the field for a morning, instead of taking your chances with sharing the field with some f**ktards
likely because the landowner has better things to do then keep track of who is hunting each day of the season
probably assumes that hunters will either stay away from each other or stick together...guess not though eh btw...why didnt u guys just go sit by the fenceline instead? sounds like they got more then u neways
I remember a few years back hunting along a river. We found a real nice spot with an open hole perfect for geese, right along a flight line from several feeding fields.
About 200 yards downriver, some clowns also set up, and it was plain comical. From our position, you could see the birds avoiding that area like the plague. Some of the geese were flying by so high they were almost in orbit, and here these guys would start pounding away like an AA battery, and the ones that were low enough flared and didn't even get within range, despite these guys hammering away. They must have gone through 3 boxes of shells each, and hit absolutely nothing!
It actually worked out okay in the end, because these dummies would just scare all the birds our way to come in and land right in our decoys! We had no problem limiting out, and actually looked forward to these guys being there when we went again!
About 200 yards downriver, some clowns also set up, and it was plain comical. From our position, you could see the birds avoiding that area like the plague. Some of the geese were flying by so high they were almost in orbit, and here these guys would start pounding away like an AA battery, and the ones that were low enough flared and didn't even get within range, despite these guys hammering away. They must have gone through 3 boxes of shells each, and hit absolutely nothing!
It actually worked out okay in the end, because these dummies would just scare all the birds our way to come in and land right in our decoys!
We had no problem limiting out, and actually looked forward to these guys being there when we went again!
M12shooter
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- East St. Paul, mb
Thats why I gave up hunting the "managed areas" for ducks and geese. Too many knuckle heads, sky busters, game hogs, and trigger happy non-residents from the south that think they own the place... not to mention being regularly harassed by resource officers. I shoot ducks deep in the big prairie marshes now where most hunters are too lazy to attempt getting to.
