Snow Tactics

[-Wildcat-]

As the thread title suggests, what's your favorite way to hunt in the snow? Do you hunt strictly in shelter belts, or do you look for other advantageous cover as well?

For me, I love hunting shelter belts and thickets when freezing temperatures and snow abound. However, that's not the only areas I concentrate on. I also look for 'em in thick waterways (which seem few and far between anymore), crop edges, and thick draws where creek beds offer cover from the wind.

 

[BritChaser]

As the thread title suggests, what's your favorite way to hunt in the snow? Do you hunt strictly in shelter belts, or do you look for other advantageous cover as well?

For me, I love hunting shelter belts and thickets when freezing temperatures and snow abound. However, that's not the only areas I concentrate on. I also look for 'em in thick waterways (which seem few and far between anymore), crop edges, and thick draws where creek beds offer cover from the wind.

Sound like good tactics. I may try 'em this weekend!

 

[Nick]

Wildcat,

I also love to hunt shelter belts and plum thickets in the snow. I also like big ol' gnarly tumbleweed patches around old farmsteads.

When I was in college, I was hunting with a buddy in Dodge. We tracked a rooster in the snow. Came to a tumbleweed and saw his tailfeathers sticking out. I put my gun down and jumped on him. Of course he got away from me but my buddy got him.

 

[BleuBijou]

I really watched what the birds did during the first snow/cold this year. Before sun up, cold as hell but clear skies those birds were moving to feed. Fed for a couple hours then made their way to the thick stuff, shelterbelts, tall weeds etc. About 3p.m. they made a move to feed again and after that, almost dark were flying back to grass(CRP) to spend the night!! Now ,if it were snowing and nasty during the morning, those birds would have stayed put or went to better cover and waited for a break to go feed. We hunted the heavy stuff first thing and They were all out to feed already. At noon we caught up to them and was a blast till dark!!!!:cheers:

 

[kansashunting]

Wildcat,

I also love to hunt shelter belts and plum thickets in the snow. I also like big ol' gnarly tumbleweed patches around old farmsteads.

When I was in college, I was hunting with a buddy in Dodge. We tracked a rooster in the snow. Came to a tumbleweed and saw his tailfeathers sticking out. I put my gun down and jumped on him. Of course he got away from me but my buddy got him.

Haha I would see myself doing this! I think it would be cool if at some point out while hunting I stepped on a rooster's tail feathers and all I had to do is reach down and stick him in my bag! A dive like yours might be in order tho

 

[Zeepo]

Snow and cold weather I look to hunt the cattails. Sometimes it seems they are like cord wood they are so thick in there. There are a lot of cattails this year too. Looks like the weather is really going to warm this weekend so I do not know if there will be much snow left and it will be crunchy.


zeepo

 

[RJT]

I really watched what the birds did during the first snow/cold this year. Before sun up, cold as hell but clear skies those birds were moving to feed. Fed for a couple hours then made their way to the thick stuff, shelterbelts, tall weeds etc. About 3p.m. they made a move to feed again and after that, almost dark were flying back to grass(CRP) to spend the night!! Now ,if it were snowing and nasty during the morning, those birds would have stayed put or went to better cover and waited for a break to go feed. We hunted the heavy stuff first thing and They were all out to feed already. At noon we caught up to them and was a blast till dark!!!!:cheers:

We hunted Meade on Mon-Wed. Took me a while to figure out, but that's exactly what they did for the most part. We had the most luck bordering crop fields, about 30 yards in. They really liked the brushy cover more than the grass. Water's hard to find, we didn't find one section of cattails.

On my last day, in the morning, I flushed 60-70 birds in one WIHA field with my truck door. Never seen anything like it.