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Goose hunting smack down proposal.
metlhead:
Decreasing the limits will really cause the harvest to drop significantly. A number of groups won't bother the effort for a reduced bag. Birds will still be shot, mostly incidental. Seems more an effort to reduce opportunity that to conserve a population. Excuses.
Klickitatsteelie:
The thing that gets me with this as growing up in goose zone 5 my whole life and hunting geese for 25 years we never use to have cacklers here. We had tons of honkers and some true lessers. Now we are over run with cacklers, thousands upon thousands of them. So to say they are declining just blows my mind because that’s sure not the case here.
ASHQUACK:
Was in area 2 "coastal" yesterday and you couldn't convince that there's a shortage of "cackling" geese. The fields were absolutely ram packed full of them. And a few thousand red breasted Canada's as well.
metlhead:
Counts on breeding grounds were in May. Wonder if bios waited till June to get a more accurate count? Maybe some flocks have discovered new breeding areas. The climate is changing, remember
hdshot:
--- Quote from: metlhead on February 28, 2025, 01:46:02 PM ---Decreasing the limits will really cause the harvest to drop significantly. A number of groups won't bother the effort for a reduced bag. Birds will still be shot, mostly incidental. Seems more an effort to reduce opportunity that to conserve a population. Excuses.
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My problem is very few birds in the air, areas developed, and over hunted for general public lands most hunters only have access with parking. Hunters get very few to no days of limit hunting and they still pile up at the entrance several hours before legal entrance time. People even pay to hunt shoulder to shoulder in some of these public areas with many days of poor hunting.
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