252 geese on the deck for 5 shooters yesterday. Won't be topping that tally for a while. 422 geese down this month, has been unreal hunting.
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252 geese on the deck for 5 shooters yesterday. Won't be topping that tally for a while. 422 geese down this month, has been unreal hunting.
Great stuff. They need thinning out.
I see a lot of them up here in the NI. They are going to be a big problem in years to come (if not already)
Yea theres heaps of them up here. The population has grown quite fast
More geese than mallards where I hunt these days..
dairy farm irrigation ponds really suit these cunning huas to a T ....I see them using them all the time and a lot of places wont allow them to be shot..so geese just keep eating ,shitting and making baby gooses (to pinch/bastardise, line from Jaws)
Breasting a goose only takes a few minute. Getting the legs off and bone out a few more minutes, then take the meat to your local butcher who will turn it into some of the best peperoni salami you have ever eaten. Also good to eat roasted or fan fried like steak. Delicious eating! You could feed the whole village with that lot, good shooting!
makes my couple look a bit sick
mighthave another look thursday hope that was far side of the lake and you,ve driven them eastside
Yeah heaps around. Think of how much grass all those suckers would have been eating every day.
I do eat them but this was the third hunt this month so the freezer was already pretty full and they'd been piled up in the sun so not ideal...
Wasn't actually on the lake just birds coming off the lake onto the green grass. Still plenty around for you gsp follower this won't even make a dent in the lake population really.
Years ago we joined the Katikati shooters Club. Biggest tally for the day was about 1300 swan. Now banned. Fishing saltwater guru says they are destroying the Tauranga Harbour habitat. Crazy. Swan are like wet concrete when dead and picking them out of the water. Nice tally.
Wonderful！ I like eat geese, particularly is slow cooked with sauerkraut, it will be better if using Chinese sauer cabbage. You gents may enjoy the roasted more, but to get rid of those feathers will take about 30 minutes. Yeas back, I saw some in public land up north of Christchurch, but fishing & games notice board said that area only has very limited time frame for bird hunting.
@Black Rabbit, the game bird season you saw on the sign is for duck shooting. Someone will know but I don't think there is a season for Canada geese.
Yeah, I know the Canadian geese can be shot for all year round, but I remember it said access permit only for all the fishing and games, and birds hunting including geese in that area must follow the same rules. Maybe I remember it wrong, but it `s a good place.Quote:
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No season no limit for Canada geese, has been that way for a while now
But yeah you usually need a permit to hunt on public land. They're free and easy to get. Depending on where you either get it from DoC or Fish and Game.
I like geese, and I can cook it in many ways, even those feathers my wife has different ideas of using them, and the geese is one of the reason I moved from Akl to Chc. So, would you please share some information that where is good public land to hunt geese near Christchurch within 100km range? Thank youQuote:
Originally Posted by Nic
What load best for geese?
600 nitro express pretty good saves on any clean up - on a more serious note no 2 shot seemed pretty good last time we shot
yeh thier niumbers are rebouding but you,ve definatly put a whole in them between yo uguys and my mate at the farm near the lake .Quote:
Originally Posted by Nic
i used to get bent out of shape about all that wasted meat but since you cant even bury them on a farm now and everybodies so over the top about food safety. ive had to mellow still i dont shoot more than i can use but i get now someone has to.
I like 36-40 g lead 2s on geese but anything near about will work, especially when they're close or you're smoking them in the head/neck region.
What we shot would have been max 1/4 of what we saw in the air on the day @gsp follower, definitely plenty around (some would say plague proportions). And remember they say about 4 geese eat a sheep's worth of grass in a day so that many bird would have been having a massive impact. And I bet you they will be back on that grass again by Friday. I do take some of the breasts to eat personally but this is more about keeping them off the paddock/grass.
quick load in #2 or #BB if jump shooting/pass shooting.... over decoys they use a real mixture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jhon
winchester super x #2 used to be my go to load the Xpert steel in same is good so is kent or gamebore.... if you put bird in pattern,the brand matters not a lot LOL.
My first shotgun experience was #3, till now I still prefer #3 for ducks and rabbits. Used #2 once, but can `t shoot right, and then switched to #3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
sat out on verandah this morning in New Plymouth suburb and watched a flight of at least 80 to 100 land just south of New Plymouth area - no lack of them- Taranaki duck shooters just don't seem interested in targeting them
havcing shot with GSPF for over 15yrs now ive got a couple of pet loads .from Hull ammo 3" 34gm solway magnum 3s nothing withstands the impact of that load in range!
In 2 3/4 which i use on feral geese 3-4 32gm are Ok generally catch the dozy buggers asleep or very close up. ducks the same .find a load you like get bused to it stick with with.its the workman not the tools!
if i were a one load man it,d be the 12 cauge falcon 40 gram lead load in 2.s s a bit tough on the close ones but it,l kill the rest as far as you can put the pattern on them. In steel im using 3 inch rem nitro 2 and 3 inch eley steel 2. were i decoying them on water id probaly just use a fast 32 gram steel load backed up by rems/eley 3inchers. i know people who shoot them with steel 4,s out of open chokes in big numbers when decoying but im not that goods o i,ll stick to what works for me.TO be honest i shot tons more geese with the 20 ;gauge and 32 gram lead 2,s and 3,s decoying or pass shooting over water but alas those days like nz cricket dignity is pastQuote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
listen to this man I can testify to it -manys the canadian goose domestic squabble that was resolved by a rotund 20g toting muttering sherriff! his other famous trick was a goose call he does which frankly would give an aoemeba a hard on-manys the distant goose Ive seen turn back toward him in response to his plaintive tones only to find a 20g shotgun round terminating the love life permanently. i kid you not.Quote:
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