Brutal! It was zero this morning? Clients couldn't handle it

If you can't handle zero, you have no business goose hunting.

Some folks can handle it some cant.

yall get out and hunt at all?

I went out at 5 and got everything set up and brushed, went and got then and we hunted for maybe am hour

0 degrees isn't cold when you are devastating geese. How'd y'all do?

9 pages of nothing to see here....

Pretty lame thread so far.................. can't handle zero?! Geez, that's t-shirt weather up here.

Seriously though, wish we could get more bird hunters out in the field these days. The spring white goose seasons are virtually dead.............. fields covered with birds and not a shotgun to be heard. Even in the fall it ain't like it use to be. Lots of morning when I am out early feeding the bovines I don't even hear a shot.

I try to get some of our bear hunters interested in birds, but overall they could care less.

Use to be when bird season was open and you went to the gas station in a local farm town there would be lots of pickups with US plates in getting fuel, coffee and snacks. Lone Star plates were quite common. Not any more.

From the stats I read a couple of months ago, even though the US and Canadian migratory bird people are pushing hard to get hunters out killing the snowies, hunters do not seem to be having much of an impact. Very liberal bag and possession limits don't seem to be making much of a difference either. Just not enough bird hunters out there to do the job. I fear we are going to just see the population crash one year as the problem reaches a climax.

I can't. Well not for long in the wind. In a blind with a good supply of hand warmers . . .

Feet and hands no longer can do it. Freeze up, hurt and frostbite to easy.

Just for the record you have to really like goose meat to hunt them this time of year.

I don't care for the meat at all any time of the year so going on a guided hunt for them would be like going on a ram hunt. Not happening. As for the Canada hunt thing I know some guys who used to go up there for different hunts fairly regular. They got sick of the hassle at the border over guns and ammo so most of them have quit going.

Is there still 600,000 geese up there? Looks like squaw reported 90,000 yesterday.

I find that funny. It is a lot bigger hassle for Canadians getting firearms into the US to go hunting than the other way around. The only hassle my bear hunters complain about is going back through US customs on the way home.

Most of the US bird hunters we see are not going on guided hunts. They bring their own equipment and do their own thing. Getting permission to hunt on farms is usually quite easy. Five minutes on the phone and I can usually get guys permission on thousands of acres. About the only thing pisses the farmers off is if guys leave their hulls lying around in the field, otherwise they are pretty easy to get along with.

I saw the report yesterday and called bs, then I went and looked today when I picked up Sboper at the vet, it wouldn't break 90,000.. This front pushed em and it's EASY to tell

My clients are important to me and I'm not going to firce them to stay out if they are uncomfortable, just like I'm up at 4 and get to bed at 11 everyday changing things, scouting and setting new spread

As far as the guys saying the tread is lame, get LOST, there's 10 band pictures and I don't care if they are alive or dead that's Fn cool!

Alot of you don't get the way things to up here and never will bc your internet hunters. Snows are hard to kill since a lot are 8-10 years old and have seen and heard it all and birds come and go frequently with these late season fronts. I posted this thread for guys who can't get up here to see some awesome photos; alive birds, dead birds, bands, huge spreads and some happy hunters when we get this push of Juvies heading this way, it could be tonight, it could be Tuesday, only time will tell.

My numbers are oh 10-15 per day but we aren't trying to shoot at pairs and tripes coming off with the customers we have had bc they want a tornado and make it rain 20-40 per group. We will start getting higher anyday

I'm headed that way tonight. What's your outlook for the next 3 days?

It's honestly a crap shoot, I have 5 of the best locations leased and spreads set but we lost ALOT of birds with this front! Just waiting on a new push!

I've killed hundreds of ducks and don't have a band yet. I would take a banded goose.

The guys I know don't hunt waterfowl up there. It's bear and caribou. My brother got turned back because he had a DWI over twenty years before their trip and they consider him a felon and he can't hunt with a gun up there.

That is unusual, after 10 years they usually deem people as rehabilitated at the border. I don't know........ I have a couple of regular bear hunters with previous DWI from years ago and they never have trouble entering or bringing rifles. One of them is in and out of Canada on several hunting trips every year and never a problem. In any event it matters not whether it is a shotgun for ducks or a rifle for caribou.......... it is the same rules.

Can't wait to hunt with you next week Cody! The whole group is doing prep right now at my house, after dinner. I'm not into the boring planning of the hunt. I just set it up, and hunt!

Glad to see the thread.

Concern though: warmer weather? Good or bad? It's supposed to be 40-60 degrees when we're out there.....

U want 40-60
Perfect, mo birds

This was probably ten years ago. He's mid fifties and it happened in his early twenties.

Just finished setting a new spread at a current feed. This warm weather is going to be perfect.

Go get em Cody, looking forward to the report. I'm Jealous

Making a good like this morning in our fresh field

12 so far, got em coming in closeee too, guys are having a ball

Well... 6 hours with no update, must be melting those barrels