Dead honkers!

[lorneparker1]

Where are the pics !!

Lorne

[Tanya]

Heard some shooting this morning while I was working at the barn....somebody might have some down.

[digger dogger]

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Ya can kinda see one in the 1st pic, we managed to get 7 all together, a couple were jumbos..

[lorneparker1]

Nice work Dave!

Lorne

what about the rest of you guys!

[edgy]

my brother got a couple from the new hayhouse blind yesterday, fairly slow day, of course there were a few hundred in the " no shoot" fields across the road, but we couldn't convince any flocks to commit to us:icon_frow, and of course we had 3 come in as we were 100 yards from the blind on the way back to the house with his gun unloaded,lol, they were nice enough to fly directly over us about 25 ft up:-D
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[KTownKiller]

Nice honkers!! I got a little trick for you to try, edgy. I get a lot of that happening here in Kelowna, when geese will land in a field that I can't shoot in. I just set up a black coat in the field (that I can't shoot in) to look like a dog, or a coyote decoy would also work great. When the honkers come close, they won't land and often come right into your field instead. :mrgreen: Hey, it works. Just have a good spread of decoys and a little calling, and HAMMER them!!! Hope this helps.

[field marshal]

Yup!!!!---Cheers Field Marshal.

[Hardie Boy]

Really slow day but managed to get a goose with the new gun. Saw lots of flocks but none wanted to come into the decoys. The one flock that did came right over the blind for dad and I to get a shot. Dropped two and that was all the action for the day.

[Farmer]

My son Eric, his friend and the friend's dad managed 6 this morning. Yesterday they landed away from the decoys, but today my son decided to move to the other side of the field and it worked. His friend and his friends dad both got their first geese ever. They were very happy. Five large, very fat geese and one lesser. Boy was it small next to the big ones.
Eric says thanks to Xcaribooer for selling him the layout blind. I will try to get a picture up tomorrow.


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I could get this picture into the HBC gallery but not photobucket.

[porcupine]

Only had one shooting opportunity and got his double.

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[KTownKiller]

Congrats! Great pic, porcupine! :mrgreen:
This is from early Jan, the new season doesn't open here in Kelowna till the 21st. I can't wait!!
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[xcaribooer]

"My son Eric, his friend and the friend's dad managed 6 this morning. Yesterday they landed away from the decoys, but today my son decided to move to the other side of the field and it worked. His friend and his friends dad both got their first geese ever. They were very happy. Five large, very fat geese and one lesser. Boy was it small next to the big ones.
Eric says thanks to Xcaribooer for selling him the layout blind. I will try to get a picture up tomorrow."

Tell Eric im glad the blind is working out and if he ever gets more geese than he can shoot at to give me a call..I would love to come help out with that

[Farmer]

The boys were out again this morning. There were geese in the field before they got there at 6:15am. They set up and they got a few shots. Only two geese were bagged this morning. They didn't have a watch and so when things slowed down for a while, they called it a morning. While collecting the decoys a few singles and doubles came over but with two guys out in the field, they left. Another time , while looking for a downed goose, a flock of 40 wanted to come in, but landed two fields over instead. I told them that yesterday I watched geese landing at 9 am, but none of them had a watch and they were home before 9.
Oh well maybe they will learn. This way I have to buy fewer shells.
I have never seen a cackler up close before. Man I thought the lesser on Monday was small. I have seen bigger mallards than this cackler.

Picture is in the gallery

[SHAKER]

Congrats! Great pic, porcupine! :mrgreen:
This is from early Jan, the new season doesn't open here in Kelowna till the 20th. I can't wait!!

21st isn't it?

[Tanya]

John and our son Ben took out a first time for geese youth hunter on Friday. He scored! Way to go Matti, Ben and John.

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[lorneparker1]

Pretty sweet!

Lorne

[KTownKiller]

[QUOTE=SHAKER;1289259]21st isn't it?[/QUOTE

Ooops! :? I would have checked.:)
Thanks, KTK

[KTownKiller]

John and our son Ben took out a first time for geese youth hunter on Friday. He scored! Way to go Matti, Ben and John.

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That's the way!! Lock'em and Rock'em!!!! :mrgreen:

[Fella]

Was driving from Chilliwack to Abby this afternoon and saw a couple guys leaving a field with their blind for the day. Made me look to the skies to see if I could see any geese flying around. I was tempted to get off at the next exit and go talk to them but I had places to be. I wonder if any of them frequent HBC? They were on the flats.

[digger dogger]

Heres a few more, Lorne. we should have had a few more, but you've seen me shoot.. ha ha
Dave.http://i49.tinypic.com/syt4yf.jpghttp://i50.tinypic.com/xlcgm0.jpg

[lorneparker1]

Nice beat down boys!

Lorne

[Gr8 white hunter]

Looks like fun way to go, how are they to eat? are they dry,tough ect?.

[field marshal]

Stringy,tough, and riddled with worms!!!:mrgreen: Best stick to chicken?----Cheers----Field Marshal.

[KTownKiller]

WOW! Dave. What a SLAUGHTER !!! :mrgreen: 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?

[digger dogger]

WOW! Dave. What a SLAUGHTER !!! :mrgreen: 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?

Pepperoni here to, today was an exceptional day...

Thanx for the deek spread pattern Lorne, they came right in on the pocket....

[358mag]

Looks like fun way to go, how are they to eat? are they dry,tough ect?.

The ones in the Okanagan taste like bad liver only way we been able to enjoy is doing as very spicy pepperoni even still not that great

[CRS]

I cubed one up, flash seared it in olive oil, then added it as he meat in a combination of 2 Irish stew recipes I had. Turned out amazing! There is another member on this site who tried the same recipe and had his "picky" kids devour it!! My sis-n-law, who is not a wild game eater, tried it, then asked for a tupper ware full for lunch the next day...may have to post it in the recipe section...

[kyleklassen]

whats shaking with the dead honkers in the comox valley?

[lorneparker1]

Nothing! Havent hunted.....There are a few spots with birds , but one thats holding the most (100 or so honkers and 50 or so specks) we dont have permission on. Could try and run traffic i guess as we have permission right next to it, but we would be in a plowed potatoe field thats soaking wet and the birds are going into a winter wheat feild. Alot of work for a maybe. lol We do have about 70-100 birds that just showed up in one of our fields (winter wheat as well) but they are landing right behind one of the barns and the farmer would perfer to wait till they move further. Anyway im sure it will come together before the end of the season at least once.

[KTownKiller]

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. :mrgreen:

[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. :mrgreen:

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.http://i49.tinypic.com/syt4yf.jpghttp://i50.tinypic.com/xlcgm0.jpg

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.:mrgreen: 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 :shock:

[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:-D
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[Stone Sheep Steve]

WOW! Dave. What a SLAUGHTER !!! :mrgreen: 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"

SSS

[digger dogger]

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

Mostly pepperoni Mike, but I'm going to try SSS's recipe.(thanx)
The geese that take a bad pounding in the breast,(legs to the pepperoni) goes to cat food, and I have 6 dogs, I use BB's so it's pretty easy to get the steel out of the meat..
We had a goose come in last weekend, that I'm pretty sure 2 of us put a few BB's into, as it was falling (dead) the third man put every BB in a 3" shell into that goose.
pretty tough getting all the BB's outta that bird..(pretty tender tho) ha ha

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Mostly pepperoni Mike, but I'm going to try SSS's recipe.(thanx)
The geese that take a bad pounding in the breast,(legs to the pepperoni) goes to cat food, and I have 6 dogs, I use BB's so it's pretty easy to get the steel out of the meat..
We had a goose come in last weekend, that I'm pretty sure 2 of us put a few BB's into, as it was falling (dead) the third man put every BB in a 3" shell into that goose.
pretty tough getting all the BB's outta that bird..(pretty tender tho) ha ha



We just pan fried ours....and let them soak in pineapple juice a little longer to help with tenderizing.

My daughter had goose schnitzel for an after-school snack, supper and a bedtime snack for 2 days in a row. Good even served cold.

SSS

[Sasqman]

5 more down by 8:30 this morning! sorry no pics today.

[BiG Boar]

5 more down by 8:30 this morning! sorry no pics today.

Then we don't believe you.

[Sasqman]

Then we don't believe you.

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[Lionhill]

Four and a very happy Lab.

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[bogman]

LT, looks like you got the super secret choke in your gun

[BiG Boar]

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3 feet away with a 9 iron.

[Farmer]

Come on Big Boar, tell us you weren't tempted.

[Duck Buster]

Today......

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