Snow Geese

[upwind]

It seems to me some of you are trying to make excuses for shooting to high which causes allot of cripples I'm sick of seen sky busters shoot at geese way to high.I was hunting a field in front of the dike when a flock of geese came over a little lower than the other flocks probably about 60 yards high and i heard theme open up and they sailed one in to the fields and i could here them cheer and thought that it was funny they did not Even look for the goose.What happen to respect of what you hunt you don't kill things you wont eat and you do you re best to recover what you shoot.No wonder bird watchers are mad i would be to and as a hunter I'm furious and I'm going let theme {sky busters}know it im not going to let slob hunters ruin it for me its time to start taken care of are sport and show a little respect for the animals we hunt.

[ck]

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.

  Any definite changes you know of?  Will there still be some sort of quality hunt areas?  Any further closed areas around the dikes/bayfront access areas?(I'd hate to see that)  Any idea where to find out about proposed changes- I hear lots of rumors, but never really see anything official.
  It seems like WDFW needs to come up with a new way to present snow goose hunting to a lot of hunters.  A lot of people seem to buy into the whole "flying maggot, pest, good for nothing, overpopulated, crop ruining, etc" idea and use that as an excuse to come on up to Fir Island and blast away, rather than learn how to hunt.  I guess I don't get understand why people think it's ok to shoot 20+ rounds for each bird they knock down and actually recover while sending 4 or 5 more sailing back to the bay.  I guess since they just a "problem" bird they don't have to feel bad about piles of cripples and the way your shooting effects other hunters, and if they close off access and make it harder for the general public to get out there they'll just find somewhere and something else to shoot. Sorry for the rambling post but I'm kind of frustrated with all this stuff.
 

[singleshot12]

Feel free to ramble, I could go on for days and it is very frustrating.
WDFW is under fire after that elk fiasco last month. Word is Fir Island will be closed to hunting until something can be resolved.

[ck]

Thanks single, I love hunting there- I live about 15-20 minutes away but it seems like every time I go out there I and up frustrated and sometimes embarrassed by the other hunters that are out there. If nothing else my son has seen lots of examples of how NOT to hunt this year.

[ctwiggs1]

The game wardens had a full day yesterday, that's for sure.  Folks were pass shooting in the refuge and shooting over roads.... It was nuts.

Not to fuel the fire or anything, but it is sad because its not like they can stop the snow goose season; it would destroy the farmers.  However, the rich greenies with their expensive high power cameras are going to probably be just as powerful of a political force as the farmers.  Now you throw in the hunters.  As long as they keep making themselves part of the problem on the news, and not a solution on the news, the rulings will not be in favor of them.   

Maybe the hunters should start a "neighboorhood watch" on fir island in conjunction with the WDFW to patrol, observe, and report?  Putting that on the news could perhaps slant the public opinion in our favor.

BTW, as we've seen... It's not always "illegal" activity that will destroy our priviledge to hunt.  We need to get realistic here.