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Snow geese #6627905 01/11/17 10:25 PM
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Is anyone killing any or much less seeing many on the coastal prairies these days? Or is everyone just keeping quiet about it?

Gone are the 80-100 kill days. . . Now you shoot a 6 man limit of specks and a handful of snows and it's a GREAT hunt confused2 And I'm not talking about conservation season hammer

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Gone are the days of the 100 bird shoots for the most part.

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There are still plenty of places to kill 100+ a day, it just may not be in Texas anymore. We have a lot of the big days each year. I chase them in NE, IA and SD each year and we kill 800-1000 birds in about 12-14 days. I just think it does not get cold enough in the central us to push the birds in numbers down south as it used to. That and the change of crops fields or lack there of. Got to travel with the juvies and ya still put a beat down on them til your hearts content.

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Texas is what I was talking about. There used to be over a million geese visiting here. Now 250,000 if that even.

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Most I've seen shot in the last several years is 33, and that is over about 25-30 hunts. The 33 bird day was 12 guns, so it didn't add up to much per man.

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That sucks

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That artical is from 2012.

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Arkansas along 40 from little Rock to Memphis is covered in snow geese. It's like an outdoor channel show when we drive thru there a few times a week

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Originally Posted By: pervis
Arkansas along 40 from little Rock to Memphis is covered in snow geese. It's like an outdoor channel show when we drive thru there a few times a week


any outfitter/guide in that area??????
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Here is a recent article from the Houston Chronicle. Pretty depressing

http://m.chron.com/sports/outdoors/artic...as-10851881.php

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Originally Posted By: Guy

That artical is from 2012.


I realize that, but it does explain the recent decline in snow goose numbers. Although the newer article shows an increase in numbers, keep them coming!!!

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The duck #'s seem lower to me this year too

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60 has been our best shoot so far this season with a bunch in the 30's. I'm in no way saying the goose numbers are what they were 10-15 years ago, but there are a good number of geese down compared to recent years. We haven't exactly had the best weather for goose hunting this season. With better weather we would have a bunch of 50+ bird hunts. I also wonder how many of those big shoots were in the decoys vs. pass shooting.



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Daniel that is the most geese I have seen on the ground in Texas in a while. Dern shame it had to be a picture intead of seeing it in person.

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None of our big shoots are pass shooting or jumping of birds. All done over decoys. Large spread of 2500-3800 decoys running traffic

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saw a video a buddy sent me from this weekend they were pheasant hunting in kansas. I will try to get him to post it here but there were thousands up thousands of snows still up in Kansas. Just haven't made it down yet or may not make it down!

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Hundreds of thousands birds never come south of Kansas/Missouri. Squaw creek and other resivouirs are not freezing up like they used to and there is no need for birds to travel as far south as years past. Speaks the same for both geese and ducks. The snow line has been middle of North Dakota or in SD which makes for a huge and fast migration in the spring up to those points and the. The birds will stall out and the shooting can be outstanding in the northern states.

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Originally Posted By: Tru2lifetaxidermy
Hundreds of thousands birds never come south of Kansas/Missouri. Squaw creek and other resivouirs are not freezing up like they used to and there is no need for birds to travel as far south as years past. Speaks the same for both geese and ducks. The snow line has been middle of North Dakota or in SD which makes for a huge and fast migration in the spring up to those points and the. The birds will stall out and the shooting can be outstanding in the northern states.


Yep
Thats why PTO and Habitat flats are there
Goose hunting in S Texas aint like it was in the 1990's no more
Man, these 90's were so much fun


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Originally Posted By: beaversnipe
Originally Posted By: Tru2lifetaxidermy
Hundreds of thousands birds never come south of Kansas/Missouri. Squaw creek and other resivouirs are not freezing up like they used to and there is no need for birds to travel as far south as years past. Speaks the same for both geese and ducks. The snow line has been middle of North Dakota or in SD which makes for a huge and fast migration in the spring up to those points and the. The birds will stall out and the shooting can be outstanding in the northern states.


Yep
Thats why PTO and Habitat flats are there
Goose hunting in S Texas aint like it was in the 1990's no more
Man, these 90's were so much fun


Yes indeed

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snows suck, head north and shoot a canada or 4


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2000 was the last season I tried to chase snows on the coastal prairie. Saw the writing on the wall: no water, no rice, no geese.

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Originally Posted By: HuntnFly67
2000 was the last season I tried to chase snows on the coastal prairie. Saw the writing on the wall: no water, no rice, no geese.


yep...anyone that says its great is selling hunts or went once and got lucky


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I have a farm east of Temple and they use to land out there There's just no food for them any more farmers arent planting any wheat

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Originally Posted By: Dave Speer
Most I've seen shot in the last several years is 33, and that is over about 25-30 hunts. The 33 bird day was 12 guns, so it didn't add up to much per man.


I agree, birds per hunter is the real judge. A 60 bird hunt with 10-12 people is not all that impressive to me. I would take a 1 person 15 bird hunt or 2 person 30 bird hunt over it any day during regular season. There have been limit decoying snow goose hunts this year on the prairies, so the decline in geese to south texas hasn't reduced all areas to 2 specks and a few snows per person entirely. Until recently I could count on a decoying limit of snow geese once or twice a season (with 1 or 2 hunters), but it's getting tougher each year.

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