Ducaholic wrote:Shoot them on the roost up to one hour after sunset. That’s when they are most vulnerable to the gun!
Where are the numbers of people that are interested in going out and do that to a half a million or more snow geese on top of what are already harvested.
I used to enjoy snow goose hunting in the spring. Haven't gone in a few years and have no plans to go in the future. Been there. Done that.
I would enjoy going out a time or two and putting the sneak on a roost and smashing a few hundred birds in one group volley. But once or twice, not year after year.
Just like I used to like to shoot the jumping Asian carp. People used to put hundreds to thousands in the boat in one night. One boat literally put over 4,000 in one night. Filled their boat 3 times. I didn't have the right boat for those numbers, but it was fun. But it got old. The club I was part of took 15,000 in one tournament. I doubt they get much over 1,000 in their big tournament anymore because people simply are not interested any more in big piles of dead fish. It becomes more work than fun.
There are just not that many people that want 100 geese or that want to go shoot a 100 geese and dump them like we do the Asian carp.
I don't see a solution. As you point out, geese live a long time, so every sizable flock has a lot of old eyes with a couple pellets in their ass looking the decoys over. It's hard to consistently get big numbers over decoys.
Probably the only solution is to allow commercial harvest and even then I doubt there is a commercial market.
