hunting a field more than once

[kansasgoosehunter]

how long do you wait before you should hunt the field again?

[HRK]

usually in the early season we'll hit it morning and night for the first one or two days then let it rest for 3-4 days then only one am or pm hunt so we dont burn it out, and hunt our other feilds in between the resting periods.

[h20fowler]

Depends on the number of birds that are working it, and how many birds saw you.

We have hunted the same field up to 3 days in a row, skipped a day. Then hit again for another 2.

If you pull limit the first group, grab your birds, leave the decoys, blinds, and get out of the field, this will let the other birds work and you will get more hunts out of it as you have left the birds alone. But if you are in the field picking up, walking around, etc and there are only a couple flights working the field then you will burn it out sooner.

We have one field that we hunt 2 days a week, every week of hunting season. As we get more bird we might move those dates closer together or keep it spread apart.

[h20fowler]

i also read an article a while back and he brought up a great point. What he did was establish the X field and leave it alone. He would then hunt any field within a mile - mile and a half and run traffic on it. Thus, never disturbing the true X and never burning it out.

Makes sense to me. I have not done that but I certainly understand what it is he is doing.

[Killer Miller]

These are all from the same field.
November 12th PM....
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/KillerMiller19_2006/DSCN0671.jpg

November 15th AM......
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/KillerMiller19_2006/DSCN0675.jpg

November 22nd PM.....just me and Derek
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/KillerMiller19_2006/RSCN0697.jpg

So it just depends I guess. On the 12th, there were alot of gees that we didnt shoot because we were done. So we were expecting geese on the 15th, but not ducks. We got ducks, but only 1 goose that Derek scratched out.

[IowaMigr8tor]

and I could of shot more ducks out of that field if the season wasnt closed.

[Greg Ruark Jr.]

I hunt the same field every weekend, usually do well. This seasons weather has my club scratching it's head :? :?

[hammer007911]

Depends on the weather to me. We blasted the same field for 3 days and shot over 100 honkers and if the season would not have closed I am sure we could have hunted the feild for 3 more straight days. We had 2 other feilds with birds in them but why bother with them when we could hammer them in one feild.

Hunting migrators is a dream callable, flagable and fun!

Hunt the beans out of it till you have a slow day meaning no limits by 9 AM then get out.

Hammer

[Mark Spence]

i also read an article a while back and he brought up a great point. What he did was establish the X field and leave it alone. He would then hunt any field within a mile - mile and a half and run traffic on it. Thus, never disturbing the true X and never burning it out.



BINGO

That is the ideal situation if at all possible. Find the roost areas....find the "X"....find the travel routes....only hunt the fields on the travel routes or just off the travel routes and leave the "X" alone. You will get more productive hunts this way than if you were to hunt the "X" all the time.

Very, very few of our hunts are actually on the "X." Most of the time this is by design...but sometimes, you just can't get permission to hunt the "X" so your next best option is to hunt a traffic field on the travel route to the "X."

[hammer007911]

In our area everything is hunted by wobble heads sky busting and blasting away so every time I try to hunt the best way guess what some other hunter seems to foil the plan. So we just hammer when we can :lol:

Thanks

Hammer

[kingkilla]

i also read an article a while back and he brought up a great point. What he did was establish the X field and leave it alone. He would then hunt any field within a mile - mile and a half and run traffic on it. Thus, never disturbing the true X and never burning it out.



BINGO

That is the ideal situation if at all possible. Find the roost areas....find the "X"....find the travel routes....only hunt the fields on the travel routes or just off the travel routes and leave the "X" alone. You will get more productive hunts this way than if you were to hunt the "X" all the time.

Very, very few of our hunts are actually on the "X." Most of the time this is by design...but sometimes, you just can't get permission to hunt the "X" so your next best option is to hunt a traffic field on the travel route to the "X."

did not know that. if we find birds in a field we go hunt it usually. and hunt it hard till we burn it out and then go find another field there in and do the same

[Mark Spence]

KK:

That is what most guys do....and there really is nothing wrong with it. But, by leaving the "X" alone, you are prolonging your hunting. If you hunt the "X" day in and day out...as you said, you will burn it out. If you leave the "X" alone and hunt different fields along the travel routes each day....voila - you still have birds around, you are still killing birds, and if gets to the point where you cannot traffic the birds - blow up the "X."

We hunt the "X" every once in a while....but not that often. We have limited numbers of birds out here so we want to make the most of the opportunities we get....and we have found that hunting traffic fields extends our hunting, yet still allows us to pile up birds.

Just something to think about fellas.....

[Richie]

We will hunt a field no more than 2 days. same as a spot at a lake, creek or whatever. we will usually hunt a spot then go to another field not more than a half mile away and just rotate fields. We try to get 3-4 fields in an area. we have hunted some fields a week strait and still produced birds though. So i think it is up to what your preference may be and the availabilty of fields.

[kingkilla]

i see what your saying mark but what happens if the field is being eaten out hardcore and before you know it the geese arnt in the field any more you see what im saying

[Mark Spence]

That happens.....there are a lot of things that can happen. Someone else can hunt the "X", the geese can feed out the field, etc. It is an ideal situation kind of thing. It doesn't always work out the way it should. But when you can do it...it will prolong your hunting if you are limited on bird numbers.

We have a few fields north of us that are a couple hundred acre fields....the birds feed in these fields for weeks and weeks. We just pick them off a few at a time over that time period from various fields between where they are roosting and the "X." It also helps that the farmer does not let anyone hunt on his property (the "X"). In this situation is suits us perfect and allows us to hunt more often, even though we are hunting the same birds. We just change things up a bit....lotsa decoys, lotsa calling, half the decoys, lotsa calling, etc....you get the deal. We just continue to give them just a little different look each time in different fields!

It is definitely something that cannot be done all of the time. But when a situation suits itself to it.....it really can make for some extended hunting time and some good shoots to boot!!!!

[Killer Miller]

Mark Spence wrote:
BINGO

That is the ideal situation if at all possible. Find the roost areas....find the "X"....find the travel routes....only hunt the fields on the travel routes or just off the travel routes and leave the "X" alone. You will get more productive hunts this way than if you were to hunt the "X" all the time.

Very, very few of our hunts are actually on the "X." Most of the time this is by design...but sometimes, you just can't get permission to hunt the "X" so your next best option is to hunt a traffic field on the travel route to the "X."


Mark, I agree with you on that IF YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT SPOT TO BE ABLE TO PULL THAT OFF. Here in Iowa, a big group of honkers can clean a field in a matter of a few days. So like Kingkilla said, we hunt the X if we can. Because even if we did have traffic fields leading to the X field, the traffic fields AND the X fields may neither be worth a $hit within a matter of a few days. So when we can get on the X, we do so. So I agree do it if you can, but I just don't think it can be done here in the heartland.

And personally, our group doesnt seem to have much luck running traffic. Yeah, we'll kill a few here and there doing it but I don't like it at all.

[kansasgoosehunter]

yahh runnin traffic doesnt work well here at all. when the birds leave the roost they know where they want to go and that is it. the reason i started this is we have hunted this field two weekends in a row and have limited out both times. but we didnt know if it was possible to even try to hunt it back to back days. we have never done it before so thought i would ask. but i agree with everyones posts on here. thanks for the help.