Gang Shootout

[BCHunter]

sort of..


well Ex and I started off our hunt at 8am with our buddy Brian meeting up at 1030....We all brought one of our kids

Our first bird flew in just before Brian came with his daughter, there was three birds in that flock. But two didn't like something about our decoys or something and took off...one came right in and tried to land so I let Ex go and try his very first shot at a goose. He missed on all three shots, heck i even missed one shot

The birds really didn't start moving off of the cranberry fields until around noon....Ex and Brian managed to get two birds out of another small flock of three, (we lost Brians to the bushes, spent forever looking for it) Ex's bird was a cross or something...orange legs and orangish beek. btw I missed the third bird. I later shot a bird out a flock of 10+ birds...Brian got another that glided into some trees and broke both wings:lol:

we had atleast another 5 flocks come in...man we were so pumped we were all flock shooting! it was fun! It was our first real goose hunt for this year so the next time we'll be all calm and serious ....one time Brain and the kids were off looking for his bird and Ex and I were guarding the fort then all of a sudden we see two birds coming to us...so i call away and call away they start to come in and wrap around to land in our decoys and then all of a sudden a flock of 15+ birds fly right over us with not a sound:shock: they came right inbetween us and the two already coming in....we just started pumping and firing!!! it was great...surprise! I hit one hard but it picked itself up and glide off.

Our last flock flew above us as EX and I walked back down the field from chatting to the RCMP about the calls they got Shots Fired and Birds Falling


http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_Oct_15_2005_lay_out.jpg

[BCHunter]

my bird:grin:

Oct 15 2005



http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_Oct_15_2005_dead.jpg

[BCHunter]

Ashley with my bird...can't wait until next year when she can hunt!


http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_Oct_15_2005_Ashley.jpg

[BCHunter]

EX BC Guide and his bird

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_Oct_15_2005_Ex_BC_guide-med.jpg

[mark]

seems like every time someone is having too much fun, someone has to call the cops and complain! i hate those people :-x

[BCHunter]

Ex and his son cleaning his bird

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_cleaning_his_bird.jpg

[BCHunter]

the kids doing there part...


http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_kids_hauling_the_decoys.jpg

[Steeleco]

Good for you guys, you can't have been making that much noise, I can walk to that field from my house, and heard nothing this morning. I saw a buck and 3 does in the next field west of that one Sept 9 last year. When are you guys going back?????

[BCHunter]

tomorrow at 1030-11am...

theres bucks all over there! but the farmer won't allow us to kill any...birds only

[Crimson Viking]

IF you need any help harvesting more of those bad boys, let me know!!! ;)

Field hunting geese is good fun!!! epecially when you get a big shoot-up like that.

Congrats

[BCHunter]

if anyone was wondering Ex's bird was a White Fronted Goose...

i wish i could allow more people to come but I can't

[Freshtracks]

if anyone was wondering Ex's bird was a White Fronted Goose...

White Fronted???

I've hunted here for 31 years Danny and know others that have longer and never heard of a White Fronted being taken. You sure it wasn't a Speck? I know they've been seen in that field and others in the valley this time of year. Can you recall what the bird vocals were like?

The pic doesn't show it very good.


i wish i could allow more people to come but I can't

I wonder why? :lol:

[BCHunter]

Jack from the ministry told me what it was...


Hi Danny,
It is a white-fronted goose (not a very good photo though -- I used the customizing functions in the program to make the distinguishing features of the bird's plumage easier to tell). There are a few that pass through the Fraser Valley every fall, and the numbers seem to be increasing in recent years. They are very good eating; also called 'butter balls' because they are usually very fat. They are more common on the prairies' flyways.
They can be in mixed flocks with Canadas in the field, but are really easy to tell from Canadas by their high-pitched, almost dog bark-like call.

[BCHunter]

John here is a picture i found off the net

http://www.avesphoto.com/website/pictures/GOSGWF-1.jpg

[ex bc guide]

That is a perfect picture of what my goose looked like before the shoot out started lol,First time out goose hunting and I shoot something that most goose hunters have not even heard of!
Mike

[BCHunter]

until next time..

[Fred]

Uh-Huh, and how many rounds did it take you to get how many Geese? :shock: :biggrin: Fred

[ex bc guide]

it don't matter how many rounds were used, what matters is how much fun was used doing it and that there was good eating at the end of the day. Nothing flies nothing dies
Mike

[BCHunter]

how many Geese?

more than you Fred thats what matters:-P :lol:

[Fred]

I haven't gone out for Waterfowl since I left the prairies in 78, so you have too be right Danny. :biggrin: Fred

[todbartell]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/40goose_hunt_Oct_15_2005_lay_out.jpg


Just a observation...your dekes seem to be spread out in a line, which gives the geese the option of landing wherever they want to. I've found if you arrange them in a J or U shape, it can encourage them to land in that hole. Remember birds usually land into the wind, so they can control their speed and rate of decent, so position your blind to take advantage of this. You could either plant yourself at the head of the spread, so they come right at you (easy shootin) or at the side, so they approach right to left etc (stay out of their eyes a bit more this way).

Used to always do the U, but lately its a J

sometimes we just put em in small groups with little landing holes here and there, each method has worked for us. Next time I go out I'll take a pic of the spread.


just a suggestion, take it for what it's worth...:biggrin:

[BCHunter]

thanks for the tip