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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665437
09/05/22 04:06 PM
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My Saturday morning hunt was foiled by sleeping in to late and not being the first one to the field. Though I did hunt this morning at a different spot and had a lone goose put down the landing gear over a pair of mojo mallard spinning wing decoys like he was going to land before I jumped the gun and started blasting at him. He probably won't like spinning wing decoys anymore.

I've used them in ND field hunting for ducks and have to shut them off when the geese are coming or they won't commit. Might have different luck here in WI. Time will tell, lots of season left.

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665819
09/06/22 07:59 AM
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In my experience the spinning wing decoys do not work for any type of goose.

For lesser canadas and snows we do well with the "clone" decoys which are basically a full body goose decoy with flapping wings elevated off the ground. They don't spin, they flap. Lessers and snows like a lot of movement in the spread. The honkers I do not fool with any flapping or spinning contraptions


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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665822
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We were lucky enough to have an amazing hunt yesterday morning, our best NC hunt to date. We shot 42 out of a cow pasture. No corn cut yet in that area so they have been feeding in a large pasture. We had sort of written it off because the landowner is known to not allow hunting. We went and talked to him Sunday afternoon and I did not realize he was not able to walk or get around anymore. He told us he would let us hunt if we could mow his yard and take his trash can down to the road to be picked up, no problem!!

The yard was grown up like a jungle but 3 guys with weedeaters and me on the mower were enough to get it done in a couple hours. Half way through he came outside to stop me saying we had done too much. I told him we were going to finish, it was the least we could do. Whether or not we killed a goose I felt like we at least did a good thing for a neighbor. The reason we killed so many was because they came in smaller groups of 10-15 and our shooting was very good. We killed 42 out of 60 or 65 birds that came in. That puts us up to 81 birds in 3 days of goose hunting. The goal for us is always 100 in September


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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665823
09/06/22 08:08 AM
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where the pic,

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665827
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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665828
09/06/22 08:16 AM
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nice !!!!

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7665829
09/06/22 08:18 AM
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Great stuff Coondagger2!


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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7666042
09/06/22 02:18 PM
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Thanks gentlemen, its a lot of work but worth it when it works out


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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: Wallace] #7666807
09/07/22 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Wallace
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I just had 4 floating decoys. But we were on the river near the golfcourse.
This is my first time decoying and calling early Canada's, I'll be doing it some more.

What a size difference in those geese Wallace. Smaller ones look like northern cacklers but imagine too early for them there unless them kind breeding your area too along with the big ones.

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7666952
09/08/22 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by coondagger2
We were lucky enough to have an amazing hunt yesterday morning, our best NC hunt to date. We shot 42 out of a cow pasture. No corn cut yet in that area so they have been feeding in a large pasture. We had sort of written it off because the landowner is known to not allow hunting. We went and talked to him Sunday afternoon and I did not realize he was not able to walk or get around anymore. He told us he would let us hunt if we could mow his yard and take his trash can down to the road to be picked up, no problem!!

The yard was grown up like a jungle but 3 guys with weedeaters and me on the mower were enough to get it done in a couple hours. Half way through he came outside to stop me saying we had done too much. I told him we were going to finish, it was the least we could do. Whether or not we killed a goose I felt like we at least did a good thing for a neighbor. The reason we killed so many was because they came in smaller groups of 10-15 and our shooting was very good. We killed 42 out of 60 or 65 birds that came in. That puts us up to 81 birds in 3 days of goose hunting. The goal for us is always 100 in September



That is awesome coondagger. A tutorial on how to get permission and drop the hammer on them!

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7666954
09/08/22 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by coondagger2
We were lucky enough to have an amazing hunt yesterday morning, our best NC hunt to date. We shot 42 out of a cow pasture. No corn cut yet in that area so they have been feeding in a large pasture. We had sort of written it off because the landowner is known to not allow hunting. We went and talked to him Sunday afternoon and I did not realize he was not able to walk or get around anymore. He told us he would let us hunt if we could mow his yard and take his trash can down to the road to be picked up, no problem!!

The yard was grown up like a jungle but 3 guys with weedeaters and me on the mower were enough to get it done in a couple hours. Half way through he came outside to stop me saying we had done too much. I told him we were going to finish, it was the least we could do. Whether or not we killed a goose I felt like we at least did a good thing for a neighbor. The reason we killed so many was because they came in smaller groups of 10-15 and our shooting was very good. We killed 42 out of 60 or 65 birds that came in. That puts us up to 81 birds in 3 days of goose hunting. The goal for us is always 100 in September


Good for you!

I wanna go along!

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7666956
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Originally Posted by coondagger2
In my experience the spinning wing decoys do not work for any type of goose.

For lesser canadas and snows we do well with the "clone" decoys which are basically a full body goose decoy with flapping wings elevated off the ground. They don't spin, they flap. Lessers and snows like a lot of movement in the spread. The honkers I do not fool with any flapping or spinning contraptions


Until they started selling T flags, we used to flag all races of Canada geese right to the shot. Still works to some degree but I can only remember shooting 2 or3 Canada geese over spinners.

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: coondagger2] #7666974
09/08/22 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by coondagger2
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Nice big Canadians.

We get the Cackler version here along with Whitefronts mostly. Me and a buddy got 18 so far.

Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: ~ADC~] #7667107
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Good for you!

I wanna go along!


https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/64221/auctions/127102/auction_items/3886491

I'm donating a hunt to the FTA auction this year, would love to have you out!


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Re: Goose season is back!! [Re: yukonjeff] #7667109
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
Nice big Canadians.

We get the Cackler version here along with Whitefronts mostly. Me and a buddy got 18 so far.

Nice job!! Unfortunately all we get here are the big honkers. You can see in the pics some are much smaller than others. They aren't lessers or cacklers they are just young birds lol

We chase the lessers in the Midwest and in Texas. There's nothing like laying under a tornado of 5000 lessers about to land on your feet, but I love them all!


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