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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby NuffDaddy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:33 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Thanks. That clears it up. :thumbsup:
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Bootlipkiller » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:34 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Ain't that the truth
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Bootlipkiller » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:35 pm

NuffDaddy wrote:
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Thanks. That clears it up. :thumbsup:

Snows ain't Canada's Jr!
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby NuffDaddy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:36 pm

Bootlipkiller wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Thanks. That clears it up. :thumbsup:

Snows ain't Canada's Jr!

No snows over here so I have no idea. Figured if they were in a pond that heavy they were using it consistently.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:39 pm

NuffDaddy wrote:
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Thanks. That clears it up. :thumbsup:


It's not even just that. Snows can feed out of a field in a couple hours, finding the X can be impossible when you are talking about the possibility of birds covering an entire section one day and be in the next state tomorrow. There were almost no snows reported in Eastern Nebraska yesterday, today there were snows near the NE/SD border.

Then let's say that you do happen to have a field they want to be in, snows don't decoy like canadas. They come from above and hit the front of your spread, where the active feeding is happening (watching snows jump each other is pretty cool). This means that they are literally floating above your spread, with thousands of eyes picking apart every inch of your spread. I'm not kidding when I say I've literally spent an hour grassing blinds/hides, and adults will still pick you out. What's strange, is that laying in a white painter's suit in a spread makes you damn near invisible, but the weather has to be favorable and of course, you have to have a spread.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:40 pm

Flightstopper somewhere around 187.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:41 pm

Bootlipkiller wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:I've always said " Snows don't know where they are going until 10 minutes after they get there!" But don't quote me on that :thumbsup:

Thanks. That clears it up. :thumbsup:

Snows ain't Canada's Jr!


This. Even the best snow goose hunters are routinely bested by them, Canadas are a walk in the park in comparison.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:41 pm

Tomkat wrote:Flightstopper somewhere around 187.
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Nice TK! Any bands?
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby NuffDaddy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:42 pm

Tomkat wrote:Flightstopper somewhere around 187.
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Now the not so fun part starts. :-D
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:44 pm

Sws002 nailed it. Snowgeese are like cats, they don't follow any of the normal rules. They do whatever they want. I have been lucky to have GKR as a friend and hunting buddy for many reasons but he has taught me a lot about snows.

Yesterday required a lot more work than the video shows. It took 3 dogs and a boat to clean that pond up.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby The Duck Hammer » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:46 pm

Tomkat wrote:Flightstopper somewhere around 187.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby NuffDaddy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:48 pm

What do you do with 350 goose breasts?
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby AKPirate » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:49 pm

NuffDaddy wrote:What do you do with 350 goose breasts?


One bite at a time...
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tiler_J » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:50 pm

Tomkat wrote:Flightstopper somewhere around 187.
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Holy shit! You guys hammered them. How many guys were in on the jump?
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:51 pm

Tomkat wrote:Sws002 nailed it. Snowgeese are like cats, they don't follow any of the normal rules. They do whatever they want. I have been lucky to have GKR as a friend and hunting buddy for many reasons but he has taught me a lot about snows.

Yesterday required a lot more work than the video shows. It took 3 dogs and a boat to clean that pond up.


Yup, like cats is a good way of describing it. This hunt took place in a field that had probably close to 50,000 snows in it the night before, as well as about 10,000 canadas. These were fresh birds into the area and we put them to bed and were in their field the next morning. We were hunting over about 1000 sillosock snows/blues, and probably another 20 dozen canada sillosocks and sillos. Snows gave us the middle finger as they passed over, 41 cacklers did not get so lucky.

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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:05 pm

BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tiler_J » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:21 pm

Tomkat wrote:BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

Most people around here have the meat processed into sausage.

Damn! That's like 37-38 geese per guy! Nice! Any bands or collars out of all those birds?
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:23 pm

Tiler_J wrote:
Tomkat wrote:BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

Most people around here have the meat processed into sausage.

Damn! That's like 37-38 geese per guy! Nice! Any bands or collars out of all those birds?


Probably quite a few more considering one of the guys only had two shots...
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tiler_J » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:27 pm

sws002 wrote:
Tiler_J wrote:
Tomkat wrote:BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

Most people around here have the meat processed into sausage.

Damn! That's like 37-38 geese per guy! Nice! Any bands or collars out of all those birds?


Probably quite a few more considering one of the guys only had two shots...

187 birds divided by 5 guys is 37.4 birds per hunter. I do realize the guy with only 2 shots probably didn't shoot 37. Unless it was a double barrel punt gun, then it might have been more. :lol:
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby QH's Paw » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:34 pm

Tiler_J wrote:
sws002 wrote:
Tiler_J wrote:
Tomkat wrote:BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

Most people around here have the meat processed into sausage.

Damn! That's like 37-38 geese per guy! Nice! Any bands or collars out of all those birds?


Probably quite a few more considering one of the guys only had two shots...

187 birds divided by 5 guys is 37.4 birds per hunter. I do realize the guy with only 2 shots probably didn't shoot 37. Unless it was a double barrel punt gun, then it might have been more. :lol:

What if he was shooting 3.5" 7.5s? Hey, where's Rex?
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tiler_J » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:53 pm

QH's Paw wrote:
Tiler_J wrote:
sws002 wrote:
Tiler_J wrote:
Tomkat wrote:BFF Tiler, there were 5 shooters. One of them used an over and under, even though we offered him a repeater.

Most people around here have the meat processed into sausage.

Damn! That's like 37-38 geese per guy! Nice! Any bands or collars out of all those birds?


Probably quite a few more considering one of the guys only had two shots...

187 birds divided by 5 guys is 37.4 birds per hunter. I do realize the guy with only 2 shots probably didn't shoot 37. Unless it was a double barrel punt gun, then it might have been more. :lol:

What if he was shooting 3.5" 7.5s? Hey, where's Rex?

Easy, that guy got nothing! In which case the other 4 hunters averaged 46.75 birds each.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby AKPirate » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:58 pm

Joel, find out how many shells they fired and figure birds per round, much more interesting. :thumbsup:
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby ducks~n~bucks » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:03 pm

AKPirate wrote:Joel, find out how many shells they fired and figure birds per round, much more interesting. :thumbsup:

I counted 8 shots that TK fired, and at 37.4 birds that means he hit 4.675 birds per shot.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby rebelp74 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:05 pm

TK, good stuff man!
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby AKPirate » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:06 pm

ducks~n~bucks wrote:
AKPirate wrote:Joel, find out how many shells they fired and figure birds per round, much more interesting. :thumbsup:

I counted 8 shots that TK fired, and at 37.4 birds that means he hit 4.675 birds per shot.


Now that is interesting data!
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:06 pm

If I wasn't so cheap I would run HeavyShot and really do some damage. But my cheap federals seem to work.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:07 pm

rebelp74 wrote:TK, good stuff man!


Thanks. I am loving my Sony ActionCam which has been great so far.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby ducks~n~bucks » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:08 pm

My dad snuck up on a group of specks like that by himself once (except there were closer to only 300 total), stood up, and shot one. Then he stood there in amazement for a second, and started cussing himself because he didn't shoot more.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby sws002 » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:08 pm

Get Jarbo to load you up some TSS. For the $30 it would cost you, it would be worth it just to see what kind of damage you could do once.
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Re: TK's Snow Goose video

Postby Tomkat » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:09 pm

Looking at numbers-

We went thru a box of shells each to clean up the crips. But its not an exact thing because some of them took a couple shots.
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