Dead honkers!

[BiG Boar]

I'm using the same kind of spread pattern here too.
I like to put out a black coat to look like a dog (to the geese anyway) in an area the birds want to land but I don't want them to. It will keep them from landing there, and they often will come to where I'm set up. I've fooled many poor honkers with this.

Show me this coat dog with a pic. I want to see it.

[Farmer]

Heres a few more, Lorne. we should have had a few more, but you've seen me shoot.. ha ha
Dave.

Are you using swan decoys as well, or are they just that unafraid?

[digger dogger]

They are goose decoys that have been kicked around for a couple years and the paint came off, so I just painted them flat white..
Does it work? I dont know, they come in if I have them in the field or not..
But the swans are pretty docile, and sometimes they don't leave while geese are dropping.. (if hunted, I don't know if they get as leery as the Canadas)

[KTownKiller]

Show me this coat dog with a pic. I want to see it.

It doesn't take much to keep them from landing, atleast around here anyway. I just bunch up a coat or put it over a bucket or a stake. Anything to resemble the rough shape of a dog will keep them from landing and keep them in the air. They'll pull away and look for another place to land instead. The first time I tried this was when honkers were using a feild I shoot in but were landing too close to a road. I put out my heavy, black rain coat where they were landing the last few days. The honkers would come to land, but when they saw the coat, they would be too nervous to land and would continue to fly to the far end of the feild, right where we were waiting. HONK HONK!!!.... BOOM BOOM!!! They seem to want to get atleast a couple hundred yards away from my doggy decoy.

[field marshal]

We have been using swan decoys for both geese and ducks for years! Works shit hot!!!! ---Cheers---Field Marshal.

[f350ps]

Show me this coat dog with a pic. I want to see it.

Done it many times with a black garbage bag, I never leave home without one! K

[huntcoop]

Having never hunted water fowl before I never knew geese had the big of a wing span

[Kudu]

Nice shooting guys - what the hell are you going to do with all that goose meat?

[edgy]

got a couple more yesterday, pretty slow, but we always seem to have at least one flock come in

[Stone Sheep Steve]

WOW! Dave. What a SLAUGHTER !!! The honkers we get, we have made into pepperoni. Only way I've found to make them taste good. What else do you do with them?

I found a schnitzel recipe somewhere here on HBC. Will definitely be repeating that one!!


Edit....I found a copy of the "loose" recipe in my email. I'd like to give credit to someone but I can't remember who originally posted this.

"OK yesterdays kill almost ready for the table. Goose Schnitzel my new favorate thing. Soaked the breast in salt water over night then pinapple juice for the day. Pounded the crap out of them with the big tenderizing mallet,. dredge in flour then an eggwash with a bit of hotsauce mixed in, then flour and egg again. Final coating of cornflake crumbs, garlic, poultry seasoning, season salt and pepper I also added a bit of curry powder. Deep fry, top with sautaied onions and mushrooms. Coating spices and topping/sauce can be changed to your taste. ALMOST as good as shooting them"

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