Snow geese

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bigriks300

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Is anyone going to hunt snow geese in kansas this year?

My hunt partner and I are going this weekend for the last canada but snow geese have a special take no prisoners season starting on the 14th after regular season ends.

We are going to try the snow/light geese season for the first time.

We've read and talked to about everyone we know and we still don't have a good plan for hunting these things.
If anyone has suggestions or experience I'm all ears.
 
me and my waterfowl buddies will be smashing some snows when they get here.. have 800 full body snow goose decoys... the only advice i have for your is decoys decoys decoys! it seems to take around 500-1000 to really draw birds in shooting range, dont ask me why. that doesnt mean u have to have that many it just makes things a ton easier. and concealment which if ur a waterfowl hunter im sure u already know that! lol
 
Lots of decoys, and e-caller, very good concealement (sp), and a nice hill top of corn or winter wheat (beans will work too). Seems like the highest field works very well. Lots of wind sock decoys as they love to see the movement.
 
I've always heard a flock of snows won't decoy on a group smaller than their sum, that is way it takes huge numbers of decoys.

In other words, if a group of 1,000 birds fly over and you only have 500 decoys out they will not come in. It is not an easy hunt at all.
 
Lots of scouting, then lots of decoys, no bird has a better idea where it's going than a snow goose. You need to be in the exact field they are feeding in, with lots of decoys. Don't necessarily need the best decoys, but lots of them, we used to lay on the ground in the middle of the spread and throw white pie plates in the air, young birds would land around you, even shooting wouldn't spook them because they make so much noise. Also make your spread so that the birds landing zone, where you want to shoot them is "ahead" of the decoys, these greedy geese try to jump over the geese on the ground, unlike ducks which are sometimes reluctant to fly over the birds on the ground. Water sets work with smaller numbers, when birds get split off into small bunches, by weather, or pressure, they will then decoy. Good Luck.
 
thanks for all the information. We are going to start getting out this week to scout about a little. We just got some snow's flying into our little lake but since it's inside the city limit; oh well.:eek:
 
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