Snow Goose 2013

[BrianLucky13]

Thanks for the reports Bryce. And the pictures!

[B-Radical]

Are there any Guides that have openings for two this weekend. the guy i had lined up is wavering on hunting due to the weather. this is the only weekend I can take my nephew out.

if you are a guide and are hunting SD or ND this weekend please give me a shout.

call or text 651-two6three-77nine8

Thanks,

Brad

[Scott M]

Well done Bryce *hat tip*

Thanks for sharing and taking us all along.

[B-Radical]

Got someone! Thanks. I'll post some pictures sunday night!

B-

[TylerS]

Nice Bryce! Looks like a bunch of adults! Hardest birds to decoy in the waterfowl world. You're a diehard, dude. Congrats!

[Musky Buck]

Pretty amped up for tomorrow morning, got the report I was hoping for, whether we get into them or not this will be a memory I'll never forget, seeing that for the 1st time, video camera is fully charged like me, can't wait. What's kinda cool is here in East central MN about every 4 years or so a few large flocks of snows come through here and rest in the huge fields near my place, so I get to see it here and there minus about a million birds lol.

[Musky Buck]

Hang on what's the weather report for late Sunday night into Monday, hearing 14+ in places of snow, 7-14" likely, when are we breaking free from all this mess ?

[Bryce]

Think that forecast is north of you. Didn't see near as many birds this morning while cleaning camp and virtually nothing travelling east. You'll see lots of birds. I have a constant arr, arr ringing in my ears. Going to Wolves tomorrow night. Hope it gets loud enough to drown it out. You free lancing, hooking up with free lancers, or guided? Looked like a guide set up shop by Ludden. Heard Randy Bartz was holding court out of Ellendale. Got an idea he was set up only a few miles from me. Lot of gimmicks in the spread. Final pic of the trip. 3 hours to pack up. Probably 2 days to thaw everything out.

[Musky Buck]

lol may not be going at all if I can't get past the hunter safety thing on the ap lol. We're hitting a friends farm near Oakes but we are adding options and have several guys out there giving us reports etc.

[Musky Buck]

Good to go HIP certified and got past that by drivers license number and the state it was issued in.

[Ray1]

There are some birds to be had in ND. Here is Sat. morning with two of us. The fog helped out a lot but i still cant find the juvies.

[fishuhalik]

Ditto Ray. Pass shot some birds today. Got 4, shot terrible. Birds had a 35+ mph wind on their back though so they were MOVIN!! Felt great to be back in the field though!!!!

[lifterpuller]

are you seeing decent numbers of birds as far north as hwy 2?

[fishuhalik]

Yup. Didn't drive around much and found 2 good feeds, 1 with about 10k & one with about 3k & a roost with about 2k. COmbibe that with all the birds flying high & I bet we saw over 20,000 snows. Double that of honkers malls & pins

[TylerS]

I'm guessing nobody is hunting Nodak for the foreseeable future. 8 inches of snow here in Fargo. Lots worse west of us. I-94 is closed from the Minnesota border to Montana. Hope nobody got stuck in it...

[Bryce]

Just saw on fb from the local grandson we hunt with. Foot of snow on the fields I was hunting.

[fishuhalik]

Still lots of birds in NoDak. Been seeing em flying all day. Left the shop at 10 am & got to location in Mandaree at 12:30, saw fair amounts of birds the whole way. No feeds but birds were flying low & in all directions. Had to keep my eyes on the road for the most part since I am driving a $750,000 truck on bad roads so I probably missed some feeds. Not a ton of birds in the sky, maybe 75?k in the 90 miles down here

[Shane Z]

Managed to shoot a few snows before the storm hit. 12"+ in aberdeen this weekend. Barely could pull all the decoys out of the field yesterday morning. If we could have hunted yesterday morning, there was no doubt we would have had a 100+ bird day. Snows flying only 30 yrds high as we were picking up. Shot another band this weekend which was always a bonus! There are still lots and lots of birds to be had but this wet sticky snow is going to make a lot the fields a nightmare. ]

[Musky Buck]

I'll just say Saturday was quite an experience, learned a ton, biggest issue was 2 of 3 fields they were using were posted tight and no 1 hunting them so the birds just kept piling into those 2. The 1 unposted field was completely surrounded by guys, the fog was kinda cool, even with that many were just out of range, lots of 70 yard high flyers. Of course we found a great place, but 1 mile into SD not north lol, had plenty of specklebellies in range, glad I knew enough even in the fog not to shoot them. Maybe this weekend will go better who knows.

[B-Radical]

Saturday was a blast with the fog early and we had a good shoot till noon and the afternoon was very slow. the weather rolled in sunday and we spent hours collecting snow filled dekes 53 total for sat and 16 sunday morning while we collected dekes.

Big thanks to Brian, Terry and the gang for letting us join them.

We got snowed in and had to spend an extra night.

The vented rib separated from the barrel on my new Stoeger 3000 after 30 shots. I was not happy! zip tied it to the barrel and kept shooting. Took it back to Scheels in St. Cloud and they replaced the whole gun without hassle. They had never seen that before.

B-

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[Musky Buck]

I don't doubt I was hearing your gunfire Saturday B-Radical, that fog was radical and a good friends knickname is Radical B lol. What surprised me the most was how the geese we saw were sitting just off the road, I assumed as smart as they are they'd be at nearly inaccessable fields or something but all I know are MN honkers but maybe that is a smart thing the snow geese do. These guys just off the highway I thought no way, trucks maybe 200 yards from their spread, looked up and they had hundreds of geese circling down on them and they made hay, I learned quickly that I know squat about the snow goose spring hunt lol. The boys were set up for a reason. Got 2 MN snow's since 1979 and hoping for this wkd my first ND snow goose. Bringing the 3.5" with for sure as everything we saw was right on the range limit.

[WallyGader]

Nice going B-rad

Gotta love the low flying adults on the foggy days, one of the best ways to kill the old wise ones, also good way to cash in on some bling.

[B-Radical]

I don't doubt I was hearing your gunfire Saturday B-Radical, that fog was radical and a good friends knickname is Radical B lol. What surprised me the most was how the geese we saw were sitting just off the road, I assumed as smart as they are they'd be at nearly inaccessable fields or something but all I know are MN honkers but maybe that is a smart thing the snow geese do. These guys just off the highway I thought no way, trucks maybe 200 yards from their spread, looked up and they had hundreds of geese circling down on them and they made hay, I learned quickly that I know squat about the snow goose spring hunt lol. The boys were set up for a reason. Got 2 MN snow's since 1979 and hoping for this wkd my first ND snow goose. Bringing the 3.5" with for sure as everything we saw was right on the range limit.

We were 8 miles south of Ellendale on the SD side of the line. nice flooded corn field really attracted the birds.

cant wait till next year now that I have the itch!.

B-

[Musky Buck]

Right on we did alright in ND on saturday and sunday. Birds were already north of 94 come saturday evening, not the mother load, but maybe 40K or so, we found a big feed near 94 saturday night. Set up on it sunday morning, plenty came back. What will the warm up do to them ? How long do they linger around or is it bust north asap ?

[Musky Buck]

Had 1 weird exchange with a ND CO. He asked me are you going to hunt this field I said sure might as well. He said I drive by here all the time and have hardly seen a bird. Before we left that evening we saw roughly 100K of them and the weekend before same field we saw maybe 50K. Got plenty, what was his motivation ? They poured over us for 3 straight hours ? Didn't understand that and being out of state didn't understand why he didn't check my license etc. Less than 5 minutes after he left we got bird # 1 and from then on it was put your head on a swivel they were every direction ?