Snow Geese

[whitey]

Skyhigh
No chip on My shoulder.
Just dont like jack offs.With or without a badge
Thanks for the input.

[Dustin07]

skagit gamies have taken their fair share of heat lately so quite possibly there are tensions... I've met some that were pretty cool guys, and some that were d-bags. but you never know, maybe they just hadn't had their coffee yet.

nice work on the snows- what kind of decoy spread did you have?

Its too bad that you have to count other people's cripples as your harvest. I wouldn't mind seeing us have to mark cripples towards our harvest card. would cut down the sky blasters I think. (if they could inforce it).

[h2ofowlr]

Marking cripples on your card would only effect the honest ones.  The ones causing the problems, would still be at it until they had 4 in possession.

[Dustin07]

yeah maybe. comes down to enforcement regardless I think. I know when I lost one I still marked it on my card. And that one wasn't even a sky bust, but a wing set decoyer.

[kbyers]

Marking cripples on your card would only effect the honest ones.  The ones causing the problems, would still be at it until they had 4 in possession.

Just like any other regulation, honest people will continue to do the right thing as regulations tighten and the ones that cause the problem will continue along as well.  It really does only take a few to ruin it for many

[GEARHEAD]

the eagles sure appreciate the cripples, man there are alot down there, even though we don't like to see things go to waste, that is just not the case down there, by sea or land, those eagles are on 'em fast. i figure we are just doing are part to reduce global warming. and feed an eagle, i feel bad about loosing ducks, not so much with snows. beat me up but i,  call it a green hunt.

[Dustin07]

the eagles sure appreciate the cripples, man there are alot down there, even though we don't like to see things go to waste, that is just not the case down there, by sea or land, those eagles are on 'em fast. i figure we are just doing are part to reduce global warming. and feed an eagle, i feel bad about loosing ducks, not so much with snows. beat me up but i,  call it a green hunt.

LOL my feelings are the opposite, I'd rather lose a duck than a snow. not that i'd like to lose either, but... 

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[singleshot12]

The snow geese here are in poor shape,they are way out of control and over populated and need to be thinned way down for their own good. Eagles,hawks and coyotes slick up dead and wounded birds pretty fast,nothing goes to waste.
Some of the other States that have an overpopulation of snows allow a 20+ daily bird limit and the hunters can leave them lay to be plowed under. They don't have all the bird watcher groups behind their shoulders controlling how they hunt.

[Dustin07]

The snow geese here are in poor shape,they are way out of control and over populated and need to be thinned way down for their own good. Eagles,hawks and coyotes slick up dead and wounded birds pretty fast,nothing goes to waste.
Some of the other States that have an overpopulation of snows allow a 20+ daily bird limit and the hunters can leave them lay to be plowed under. They don't have all the bird watcher groups behind their shoulders controlling how they hunt.

that's quite true. I hunted Missouri last year ( might try to go back this year) during the 'conservation' season. There is NO LIMIT on snows. but my understanding is that last year the snow population was at about 6,000,000, and the goal was to cut that in half. Not sure how true that is, but I know when I was there (near Squaw Creek Wildlife Refuge, look it up) there were 1.8million counted on the refuge. so possibly. they are hurting the Tundra.

[Skyhigh]

The snow geese here are in poor shape,they are way out of control and over populated and need to be thinned way down for their own good. Eagles,hawks and coyotes slick up dead and wounded birds pretty fast,nothing goes to waste.
Some of the other States that have an overpopulation of snows allow a 20+ daily bird limit and the hunters can leave them lay to be plowed under. They don't have all the bird watcher groups behind their shoulders controlling how they hunt.

I suggest you should do some research on our snowgeese compared to other flyway snowgeese...Key word in your google search should "wrangle island" snoogeese.. and maybe after your little self education you will want to edit your blurbur from above.

[h2ofowlr]

The numbers are very different between the two fly ways.  They also nest in two different areas.  Snohomish, Skagit and Frasier Delta split the 130k-150k snows that winter in this area.  Not quite the same number as 6 million.  All the snows I have been shooting look very healthy with a hell of an appetite.

[singleshot12]

I've been hunting them for 35 years and I have seen a good majority this year with sunkin breasts and no fat layer, fields are ate up and brown. It will be interesting to know how many actually make it back to Wrangle in the spring.
Snows depend on farmers grass and there is only so many acres of it here.

[h2ofowlr]

I've been hunting them for 35 years and I have seen a good majority this year with sunkin breasts and no fat layer, fields are ate up and brown. It will be interesting to know how many actually make it back to Wrangle in the spring.
Snows depend on farmers grass and there is only so many acres of it here.

They should be good now.  They loose a lot of musle mass on the long journey over here.  Then they put it back on quickly.  As I was cutting them open, you can see where the new musle is over laping the old.  They have another week of being chased around down here, then they will work over some fields before the journey back, minus the late season hunt across the boarder.

[singleshot12]

Let's hope so h2o,,as long as farmers keep planting grass crops there will always be a few geese around.
Alot of changes in the works for next season,it will be very interesting.