Snow goose hunting.

[guythathunts]

Any of y'all going West for Snows? I will be heading out with murdock54 and a few other friends the weekend of the 15th. We are thinking Chamberlin SD, but that could change. Who else is going? Were are you thinking and when? GOOD LUCK!

[Cody Gruchow]

i am leaving this saturday for snow goose hunting. around the Warner area. ill be there for a week. hopefully we get into them this year. last i heard the geese were close to the border, but the snow held them up.

[guythathunts]

Should be a good weekend! Wish us luck!! I'll keep you posted!! I won't have a computer to get to there but when I get back I'll let you all know how it goes!!!!!!!    GOOSE

[Cody Gruchow]

yeah my tripp has been delayed a week due to over booking with the guide on the same dates. so we leave next thursday. let me know how you do

[h2ofwlr]

I was in SD last weekend.  Very tuff decoys the birds. 99.8% were adults, leading edge birds stink.

NW MO had 1.4M last week, down to 1M yesterday from the surveys.

[Cody Gruchow]

well i hope it dont ruin my trip being delayed and all im leaving friday night start hunting saturday morning.

[h2ofwlr]

NW MO is down to 50K on Monday.

Goofy weather patterns right now.  S&Bs are scattered from NE to SK.  I heard another 1' of snow for parts of SD last night, the corner had 8"+ last week.   More snow for upper midwest this weekend too.

[guythathunts]

We had a great weekend. We ended up with 30 birds! We only got 1 last year. I'll post pics but I don't know how... I'll try to figure it out.

[JohnWester]

i was out tinkering with the motorcycle last weekend, and I live by the river in Hastings... and I must have seen about 7 or 8 flocks of about 40-50 snows in each flock come fly over the house...  looks like there are getting to be so many of them, they are expanding their flyway.  I never used to see this many around here.

[Cody Gruchow]

when i was in SD it was crazy everytime a flock came over i was afraid of getting  on

[Tami]

When does it end?

[guythathunts]

IT depends on when the migration is over. I am not sure the date of the seasons end, but when the birds have all moved through... the hunting is over! In a typical year the birs only migrate through an are for a few weeks - a month. It depends a ton on weather. The birds migrate with the snow line. As the snow melts and there is water in the fields vs snow; the birds advance north. A big snow fall can move birds south by a whole state in a days time, and nice weather can move them north just as fast. With that said, when it ends in one state/states it is just beginning in another. Some times the birds will "stage" or pile up in a spot as they move north for an extencive ammount of time. This extends the season in that area for longer periods of time. The tricky thing is figureing out where they will be and when. It is nearly never the same time according to a calnder, so to hunt them you have to be extreemly flexable. Hope this helps! ~Greg

[h2ofwlr]

Water was key this year.  The lack of run off was huge, so if you found water, you found S&Bs in SD and ND ANd CA too.

[PJ Maguire]

Like they say, the best snow goose decoy is a floater.