Goose shooting

[swiss.tony]

You should not use a rifle to shoot geese!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it was a joke

[pavman]

8 bore is nearly anti aircraft gun so that should kill em or use rimfire that all ways works

 

 

[RAMMER BURT]

and i was thinking this thread was about goose shooting advice ****** i need to get out more

[TJ91]

I`m sorry you feel that way, the reason we are here is to discuss and pass on knowledge, if it is flawed, then it has to be either discussed more or shot down. Any generalisation can lead to people dismissing things, take for example "Geese fly off their roosts in the morning and out to their feeding grounds." This is GENERALLY correct, unless there is a moon, or disturbance, bad weather.......... so gaining knowledge through observing what the geese are doing is the key.

So in your first reply to the OP you were GENERALLY correct, but again this doesn`t help the OP, shaky, WGD and anser all looked at what the problems were and gave their replies which were to do with learning the habits of the species of geese that he is seeing as they will affect the way you try to decoy/flight them.

 

Have a think first about what the OP is asking and has given, then ask for more info if necessary and then have another think before answering otherwise you don`t help the OP.

Finally, if you think you have all the answers when it comes to geese, woodpigeon, duck etc. think again, I know I have been made to think again.

 

 

i have never said i know all there is to know, i dont know half of what there is to know and will never know it all

[henry d]

OK, form the OP..........

 

 

Hi guys im sorry for not being specsific. The geese are canadians, they are flying at around 9am and then i see them again at 7pm they fly straight over my head but are too high to shoot. Ive used decoys and calls on them but nothing seems to work. I no on there morning flight they are landing on a river a few miles away, this belongs to Welsh water and is a public right of way. In the evening they are traveling in the opposite direction but again too high and dont seem to be intrested in stopping.

 

IMHO - you need to find where and what they are feeding on. We have few Canadas here so I can`t be too specific, but you need to be where they want to be and decoy there.

Wild weather may split them up a bit and make them more likely to join a load of decoys. Another thing to try is to watch and listen for them as the moon waxes and find where they are feeding.

 

Hope thats of some use, I`m sure others more experienced with Black geese will comment too.

[Philmypower]

Hi guys im sorry for not being specsific. The geese are canadians, they are flying at around 9am and then i see them again at 7pm they fly straight over my head but are too high to shoot. Ive used decoys and calls on them but nothing seems to work. I no on there morning flight they are landing on a river a few miles away, this belongs to Welsh water and is a public right of way. In the evening they are traveling in the opposite direction but again too high and dont seem to be intrested in stopping.

[anser2]

If they do not feed on your ground decoys are unlikely to change their mind unless you are lucky and get a fog when they becoome lost. Find their flightline and wait for a strong head wind and you might have some luck. Its unusual here in Norfolk to have canadas fly out of range if your under them. I would guess in nearly 50 years of wildfowling I have only seen canadas flying above 50 yards a couple of times. Maybe the shooting pressure on them is high in your area.

Edited October 6, 2010 by anser2

[shakin stevens]

OK, form the OP..........

 

 

 

 

IMHO - you need to find where and what they are feeding on. We have few Canadas here so I can`t be too specific, but you need to be where they want to be and decoy there.

Wild weather may split them up a bit and make them more likely to join a load of decoys. Another thing to try is to watch and listen for them as the moon waxes and find where they are feeding.

 

Hope thats of some use, I`m sure others more experienced with Black geese will comment too.

very true henry

i have had a good few yrs with the old canadas, as i posted you need to watch how they behave in the weather moon and so on the list goes on

i watch them soon as the fields get cut, you need to talk to the land owners as well, like when the second wheat is going to be drilled, thats the last

stubbles to be ripped up so when the early crops get drilled it gives the geese less fields to get on, if you know your patch you should know where the

geese will come from. after the stubbles its our flight pond thats when its hours in the field getting under them before they get to our flight pond, wind

from the west will push birds off the normal flight line by 100s of yds thats when i wait for them way down from the pond when they straighten up to

come home, ive took sydicate guns with me, they think im mad never leave till its pitch black they often come way after the duck flight has finished

cant let them all hoover that valuable duck snap up!!