Decoying Honkers

[nobody05]

In your past experiences do you think its easier to decoy geese over water or on land/field?

My vote goes to.... Land<H20 thoughts?

[dan z]

Land. Find the foot prints and [PoorWordUsage] crush them the morning after.

[Sifty]

Land. Find the foot prints and [PoorWordUsage] crush them the morning after.

+1

[fishuhalik]

+2. Shooting geese on their roost is perfectly legal. But you'll push em outta the area & mess up their feeding habits. The area I hunt (nw NoDak) had a terrible goose hatch this year, very few birds. One refuge in the area has a couple hundred birds. Another pond had about 150-200 birds. The birds on the refuge are still there, even though they were hit several times in fields. The birds in the pond that is open to hunting are gone & I can't find em. They were shot at on their roost & have completely left the area. I'll still throw out a few honker floaters when I'm hunting ducks on water, but thats more for a security decoy to make ducks feel comfortable than it is for killing geese. But that's just my .02.

[HNTNBUX]

If it was possible to get permission to hunt in a field as it is to hunt water it might be easier. That being said I have shot more over water while duck hunting than when I have been able to hunt a field. Its a matter of time scouting to find birds, the land owner and then be told no just to start over or drive to the lake and hunt. At least going to the lake I get to hunt and not just watch.

[nobody05]

I just think geese are more committed to landing on water during late season just migrating through. Seems to me on land they are more shy or skiddish. Circle your spread a few times and eventually give you the middle tail feather. Sometimes its fustrating,then again it all gets made up when you have the morning where everything wants to land in your face.

[HunterLee]

If you are spot on with the water you can wreck a flock in a hurry. But if you have a big feed you can kill more. We got a 5 man limit of 50 the other day off a field.

But that being said we have killed quite a few off ponds, worst case in both instances is when you have a majority of the birds coming in at once, that can turn a limit into a one shot hurrah.

[otterman91105]

Hunting them on land is way easier.