Spring Goose Hunt

[Oldfella]

Those look a lot more like food geese than our swamp donkeys..
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Don't like those ones. We shoot and eat ours, Free food. A mate mixers them with Swan and makes a neat Salami. Won't give up the recipe though.
Oldfella

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Don't like those ones. We shoot and eat ours, Free food. A mate mixers them with Swan and makes a neat Salami. Won't give up the recipe though.
Oldfella

Uhh, isn't hunting swan against international law?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Uhh, isn't hunting swan against international law?

I looked. That seems to have ended in many countries.

 

[plantdude]

Don't like those ones. We shoot and eat ours, Free food. A mate mixers them with Swan and makes a neat Salami. Won't give up the recipe though.
Oldfella

swanlami

 

[GreenDragon]

Couldn't resist

 

[Oldfella]

Couldn't resist

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They's most welcome to them, infact the farmer would probably pay them to remove them from his paddocks.
Oldfella

 

[Oldfella]

I looked. That seems to have ended in many countries.

We have a seasonal shoot here in NZ. It comes at same time as the duck, and other game birds. Goose is now open season as we have too many and they are doing a great deal of damage to crops.
Oldfella

 

[plantdude]

Yeah, they are hell on the crops and the waterfowl ecosystem for duck breeding grounds up north in Canada. They have an extended season for just the snow geese after duck season ends out here. Everything goes - electronic calls, no plugs limiting shot number, an insanely high limit... The problem is that they are tough to hunt. You never know what field they might decide to land in and most farmers want money to let people hunt on their land out here. Hunting is big business out here. To do a proper decoy spread requires a couple hundred decoys, a team of people to haul and set up everything, and a lot of luck that you find some gullible geese.

I used to just pass shoot or try and sneak up on them. I'd get a few but those guys are weary. A thousand eyes on the lookout. They seem to know exactly where the effective range of a shotgun is and stay just out of it.

 

[Oldfella]

Yeah, they are hell on the crops and the waterfowl ecosystem for duck breeding grounds up north in Canada. They have an extended season for just the snow geese after duck season ends out here. Everything goes - electronic calls, no plugs limiting shot number, an insanely high limit... The problem is that they are tough to hunt. You never know what field they might decide to land in and most farmers want money to let people hunt on their land out here. Hunting is big business out here. To do a proper decoy spread requires a couple hundred decoys, a team of people to haul and set up everything, and a lot of luck that you find some gullible geese.

I used to just pass shoot or try and sneak up on them. I'd get a few but those guys are weary. A thousand eyes on the lookout. They seem to know exactly where the effective range of a shotgun is and stay just out of it.

We have a open season, ie: all year, and anything goes shotguns, 22, canon, dynamite, rocks. Whatever
Oldfella