Sask hunter
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Hopefully get out once or more but it’s late for us. Needed more shooters. Had a dark goose tornado with them landing. A few shooters and we could have rained geese
What an end to the year!
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Bigjay73
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Have they applied the metric system to the calendar?
Nick87
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The big flocks always finish when you only have a couple guys. Oh well, better than the other way around. Send em my way!
Johnny Bravo
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Kill as many sky carp as you can !
JShane
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Damn it, I dont like the title to this thread. Congrats on a good hunt and the pleasure of watching that timeless goose hunting spectacle.
Sask hunter
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All goes well with scouting this afternoon we will have 2.0 version of this in the morning
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They outsmarted us on the 2.0 version lol
Rack Daniels
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What’s your go-to cooking method sasky? I’ve never tried goose…
LopeHunter
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Thanks for the write-up and pictures! I have not hunted goose or duck in 40 years.
Have a lot of memories from sitting in a blind with a buddy or two as a tween/teen or belly crawling up to jump-shoot at the edge of a levee of a stock pond.
I grew up along the Missouri River not far from the Mississippi River so a lot of Canada (regular, lessor Gant and giants) geese and blue/snow geese would migrate overhead in V's and strings each autumn often staying down in the river bottoms for a day or two. If the river flooded in the autumn while some fields had crops in them then was amazing hunting as the geese would stay around longer.
We also had two refuges where could enter a lottery to get a blind for a day of hunting ducks and geese. Skipped school a few times to hunt along the edge of one of the refuges along active railroad tracks which sometimes got us a bird or two but almost always got us in trouble with a hunt club to one side of the tracks. Was a race to get to a goose before their security guys caught up with us. I don't think they tried too hard but we always left the shotgun on the tracks so would not get shot nor the shotgun taken.
We had local ducks such as wood ducks and mallards. As cold temperatures arrive up north then bright-orange footed mallards would migrate through along with redheads and mergansers. We would get a bit of blue and green wing teal early in the autumn about the time doves got chased away by our cooling nights.
Never had a trained bird dog but our spoiled black lab house dog would fetch up ducks from the water if you threw a rock or two near where she needed to swim.
We plucked the ducks/geese, singed the downy hair with a rolled up newspaper torch, pulled pin feathers, removed the head and wings, gutted and then soaked in salt water overnight. Tried to find any lead pellets before cooked in a dutch oven. If had more than could cook/eat then froze inside a bag with water inside the deep freeze.
I hunted one time on a lake owned by one of my father's acquaintances and that man would breast out the ducks and then somehow make a puree of the cooked duck. Think of the texture of deviled ham. Would eat on crackers along with a platter of cut up veggies and some fruit. He did not seem to have much concern of only using the breast meat and his approach was faster to clean a pile of ducks. My father told us on the way home that he was not a fan of the man's approach, however, so we never dared.
Have a lot of memories from sitting in a blind with a buddy or two as a tween/teen or belly crawling up to jump-shoot at the edge of a levee of a stock pond.
I grew up along the Missouri River not far from the Mississippi River so a lot of Canada (regular, lessor Gant and giants) geese and blue/snow geese would migrate overhead in V's and strings each autumn often staying down in the river bottoms for a day or two. If the river flooded in the autumn while some fields had crops in them then was amazing hunting as the geese would stay around longer.
We also had two refuges where could enter a lottery to get a blind for a day of hunting ducks and geese. Skipped school a few times to hunt along the edge of one of the refuges along active railroad tracks which sometimes got us a bird or two but almost always got us in trouble with a hunt club to one side of the tracks. Was a race to get to a goose before their security guys caught up with us. I don't think they tried too hard but we always left the shotgun on the tracks so would not get shot nor the shotgun taken.
We had local ducks such as wood ducks and mallards. As cold temperatures arrive up north then bright-orange footed mallards would migrate through along with redheads and mergansers. We would get a bit of blue and green wing teal early in the autumn about the time doves got chased away by our cooling nights.
Never had a trained bird dog but our spoiled black lab house dog would fetch up ducks from the water if you threw a rock or two near where she needed to swim.
We plucked the ducks/geese, singed the downy hair with a rolled up newspaper torch, pulled pin feathers, removed the head and wings, gutted and then soaked in salt water overnight. Tried to find any lead pellets before cooked in a dutch oven. If had more than could cook/eat then froze inside a bag with water inside the deep freeze.
I hunted one time on a lake owned by one of my father's acquaintances and that man would breast out the ducks and then somehow make a puree of the cooked duck. Think of the texture of deviled ham. Would eat on crackers along with a platter of cut up veggies and some fruit. He did not seem to have much concern of only using the breast meat and his approach was faster to clean a pile of ducks. My father told us on the way home that he was not a fan of the man's approach, however, so we never dared.
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Sausage and jerky lol
