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only if the state doesn't slow down on salmon restoration and dike removal. Tell the state to quite allowing netting of the river and no more dike will need to be removed.
How about requesting the alternating time frame, plus extending the season for both to accomodate the change?
there are MANY places you can hunt early goose, public or private land. there are very few places you can hunt pheasants on the west side and every year there are less. If I was half way serious about my goose hunting I sure as hell wouldn't do it at a pheasant release site. if anything goose hunters are a hinderance to the pheasant hunters who have an allotted time and area to hunt in. pheasant hunters can only hunt the morning of one day of the weekend already.Im tired of hearing duck hunters piss and moan about the west side pheasant hunters. these guys are paying big bucks to do what they enjoy doing even if their schedule and finances won't allow them to do it on the east side. alot of these pheasant hunters are kids and vets with limited resources. if you check the designated pheasant release site numbers versus the public and private land available for water fowl hunters you will soon see you are complaining about a needle in a haystack. if you don't like the pheasant hunters messing with your ducks just find another spot, simple as that.
first off I have perfect blood pressure, how dare you insinuate otherwise you goose hunter! I probably should have put some emotives in my first post. unless they have changed it, when you buy a pheasant permit you pick which weekend morning you would like to hunt ( so you get first pick of the dumbfounded birds) this cuts the hunter traffic in half for the busiest most crowded part of the day. if everyone only had one morning to go out on the weekends it would be pure bedlam.having already read this thread and what you had to say (earlier when you stated you were a goose hunter and NOT a duck hunter) I stand by my statement that I am tired of duck hunters pissing and moaning about pheasant hunters. it was a tangent that always pops up in my head when threads or conversations like this get rolling and no offense was intended towards you personally.I DO agree with you one hundred percent that is a real cluster EFF between the camo guys and the orange guys and there really has to be a better way, but for the time being the pheasant hunters are stuck in their area (where the state releases the pheasants) and duck OR goose hunters have the ability to follow the birds. maybe there is no other public land down that way, and maybe there isn't one single slice of private land that would grant you access with out doling out some cash. but once again if I really wanted a quality DUCK OR GOOSE hunt I wouldn't do it on a pheasant release site during pheasant season on a weekend, it just don't make sense. further more It would be a shame to whittle away more of what little the west side pheasant hunters have left......that being said the whole thing will probably be over and done with in a few years anyway.and last, if you want to make the trip, I will take you goose hunting anytime you like, and it won't be in a pheasant release site
I just see the guys fighting out in the field and it bothers me that one hunter is pitted against the others. Do go get your BP checked. It's the silent killer, you know.
Quote from: pianoman9701 on August 29, 2011, 12:41:37 PM I just see the guys fighting out in the field and it bothers me that one hunter is pitted against the others. Do go get your BP checked. It's the silent killer, you know.if you eliminate one party there will just be in fighting. the goose hunters will duke it out about sky busting and overcalling and the pheasant hunters will shoot each other's dogs. erase one problem so they can focus on the nextI will have my BP checked as soon as goose season gets here and some pheasant hunter runs his dog through my decoys.