Any waterfowl hunters here?

Only like 6 were ducks, lots and lots of banded snows. Pretty easy to do when 3 or 4 guys are shooting 125-187 snowgeese per day. I don't know the dark goose total, I do know the last weekend of ducks here in KS, they shot 1 banded mallard and 4 canadians. Them boys hunt 7/52 if they could. Up around Jamestown the spring flight will put 2 million snows in a very small area, something like the size of a county. Up on the N Platte in Neb, some years the cholera will kill 1-2 million on avg. Dead birds everywhere, but that's the small print stuff.

I would love to be in on shoots in areas like that

Big G, keep us in mind next year. Send me a pm, and I'll get you in on a shoot. Up around Lovewell Res. in Republic county, some of the landowners even provide the shotshells. Sounds pretty far-fetched in todays day and age. But we've seen 'em strip the winter wheat completely outta the ground, leaving NOTHING. I've seen it look like it just snowed a foot they were so thick. Glen Elder, Jamestown, Lovewell will become inundated for weeks when they show up, and there's plenty on the public hunting also.

I have a nice little lake behind my house and we hunt ducks hard, once the deer tags are filled. I always have a labrador in the yard too.

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Originally Posted by crappiedoc

Big G, keep us in mind next year. Send me a pm, and I'll get you in on a shoot. Up around Lovewell Res. in Republic county, some of the landowners even provide the shotshells. Sounds pretty far-fetched in todays day and age. But we've seen 'em strip the winter wheat completely outta the ground, leaving NOTHING. I've seen it look like it just snowed a foot they were so thick. Glen Elder, Jamestown, Lovewell will become inundated for weeks when they show up, and there's plenty on the public hunting also.

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Don't forget about me!

I have yet to go on a snow hunt, but it's on the list!

Yes, I'm a hard core waterfowler as well. I don't fish at all when it's hunting season.

I just moved down here from Ohio in late Jan 2011. I really like to fish, but I live, breathe and eat waterfowl and deer hunting. Probably waterfowl more than anything. The hardest thing about leaving Ohio was giving up all the great permission I worked so hard for years to get. Now Im starting over at square one, its frustrating! From what I understand most of the landowners in Ok lease their land?

I live near Collinsville, and would really like to meet some other waterfowlers if nothing more to pick their brain and bs a little bit! In the last several years Ive switched to nearly a full field hunting gameplan, and moving here from what I can gather there isnt a lot of field hunting to be had in NE Ok so I have a big switch in strategies ahead and another reason to open the wallet!

I have a 860 wareagle on order that I'm looking forward to pulling some crapies in with soon and hopefully loading up with ducks this fall and winter.

OK, OK, I will speak up! It's on you to contact me, I'll get ya lined up. Who wants the birds? I have a 22cubic ft freezer with 21.5 feet of those suckers. But ya'll have to answer this one question-- How's come waterfowler's get mountin' disease faster than any other outdoors adventurer's?? My kid's got it, bad! No, I want to mount that one, that's a platypus billed swamp diver. Yea right. BUT, he's got lot's of jewelery, Cheyenne Bottoms seems to give up the most. It's public and has a early season, and is really good for puddle ducks. But the late season Snow/Blue hunts are barrel-melting, fill the back of your pick-up kinda stuff. Maybe a cast-in-blast if Glen's full, we can always chum for catfish. HAHA

Erie lots of field hunting to be had especially late season maybe some day we can meet up and talk about it all

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Originally Posted by Big George

Erie lots of field hunting to be had especially late season maybe some day we can meet up and talk about it all

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I'd be all for that George. I have a few crop fields near my house that had quite a few birds mid to late Feb. Mostly mallards and canadas, but I did see some pintails and a few snows. Those were likely after the season closed.

Back home I had something to trade for some local help, here all I can offer is a gracious thank you and adding decoys to someones spread if they have some extra room. I have a sweet field spread setup. I'll also smoke some of the best goose you ever ate and make some great sausage out of it too!