Missouri Snow Goose Hunt (Pictures)

[ladb57]

Well, had some boys from Chicago down for the weekend to get some snows. Scouted my ass off all day friday, and at first had no luck. Finally stumbled across a group late friday afternoon and they led me to the motherload. I found a field that was holding, and this is no lie, at least 100,000 birds. I spent the next 2 hours tracking down the farmer, and finally got permission to hunt. Went back, set up dekes and then had to wait till the morning. Got to the field in the morning and had geese on us at legal shooting time. We hunted till noon and ended with 32 birds. It was a pretty steady hunt. Sunday was a different story all together. We hunted the same field and had even better success. We only hunted till about 10:30 as the guys had a long drive home, but we ended up with 67 birds by 10:30. It was a fast and furious morning. Attached are some pictures from the weekend. The first two are from Saturday's hunt, one with just the Chicago guys and one with the whole crew. The last pic is the pile from Sunday morning. It was definitely a good weekend.

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http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/ladb57/snow3.jpg
That's me next to my 3 year old yellow male "Buster"

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/ladb57/truckload.jpg

[HRK]

nice stack congrats :D on the down side one of these days someones tailgates gonna break :lol:

[Maulers INC.]

sounds like a lot of fun

[h20fowler]

Keep up the hammering on those white devils! Great job man.

[Waterfowlhunter2]

Any Bling? Nice shootin!! Keep whackin and stackin them things!! Wish we had a heavy snow goose migration.

[Greg Ruark Jr.]

Pile up some more for me. Nice work.

[ladb57]

No, no bling on this trip. We saw two collars while birds were working. I tried to keep my eyes on them, but when the birds came back around I lost them. Hopefully this weekend we can get some ***elry.

[spaightlabs]

very nice job - your hard work payed off!!

[C&T CHOPPIN CREW]

way to go, sounds like you found the hot spot keep killin em

[Buffleslayer]

Great shoot, thats a tailgate load. I actually just checked last night to see where the snows where at and they said there was hardly any in MO but i guess you found 'em

[Silver Webfoot]

where the world is web city???south mo im guessin.

[ladb57]

Silver - Webb City is down by Joplin in the SW corner of the state.

Buffle - We have a ton of snows right now, it just took some work to find them as they aren't using their normal spots.

[DropEmInDE]

Theres only one thing i love seeing more than Dead Snows.......and thats a Tailgate full of Dead Snows.....good stuff guys.....way to do your part in saving the Tundra. !!!!!!

[The Duck Squad]

dang man! how much i gotta pay you to put me on some birds!

[Drake Whistle]

Man!! You had a slaughter!! Way to smack 'em!!!

[Richie]

awsome job wackin them birds, got room for 1 more, :D im dyin to shoot more. its been about 3 weeks. :cry: I cant even watch my mallards in my pond, cant break ice anymore. frozen solid

[fowlshooter]

That's awesome way to put a hurt'n on the sky carp.

[Killer Miller]

That's sweet dude! Nice work. So are those birds that just stay there and don't go further south than that.

[honkerhunter104]

Wack'em and Stack'em boys. we hunted saturday in a field they were in the day b4 but they didnt come back they stayed north of us. and also what decoys were ya'll useing? looked like rags but how many of them and all that?

[coy]

thats cool any bands

[woodiewacker]

heck yeah man i wanna know who i have to pay to get in on some of that action

[Killer Miller]

honkerhunter, here is a quote from labsd in an earlier thread....


We mainly decoy them, using over 1000 rags and about 200 shells. We do alright. We have those awesome days and then we also have those days when we don't shoot a bird.

So there ya go ubd. Thought I'd help out with your ? since lab doesnt seem to be on here a whole lot....yet :lol: :lol: He'll get addicted soon enough jsut like all of us. :wink:

[T shot]

Good job boy's. Wish I was there. :shock:

[ladb57]

The quote that killer miller used on decoys is usually correct, but this weekend was a different story. When I went to put out the rags, I forgot the punch for the ground. Since it was frozen, i was only able to get about 3 or 4 hundred in the ground. We had to hunt over a scaled down spread, but it didn't seem to matter too much this weekend.

As for those of you who want to come hunt, shoot me a pm and we can discuss more details. We are pretty much full this year, with a few spots here or there, but there is always next year.

[duckahlr]

complete death!!!

Greg

[Beretta_hunter_forlife]

Wow that is impressive!