What to do when hunting season is over.

[james van blaricum]

Was sitting around watching it snow and decided to go try a green bead head wooly burger. Relieve some stress. JVB

[Bruce Day]

Van, I see Mary Ann also owns a fly rod that she lets you use.

Best,
Bruce

[David Hamilton]

That photo will make my cabin fever worse. All I can do at this point is cross country ski,
stuff the fire and read. David

[Dean Romig]

Robin and I will be "huntin' wabbits" in a couple of weeks in New Hampshire's great white North. It'll be a guided hunt with beagles for snowshoe hare and I have this hunch that we'll be travelling on snowshoes too. Hey, it's just something to do outdoors in the dead of winter and should be a bunch of fun.

[Dave Noreen]

Here in the Inland Empire, where we have no snow this year, we can shoot preserve birds until 1 April. They still seem to smell good to the dog.

[Richard Flanders]

Dean: You better find yourself a pair of the old WWII 60" Wallingfords or Lunds for all that snow you have back there! They'll keep you on top when nothing else will...

[Dean Romig]

Richard, "all that snow" has fallen on Suponski, Murphy, McCormack, Frey and all those poor souls to the south of Taxachusetts.

I had a pair of nice Tubb's for about thirty years but sold them a couple of years ago in a weak moment.

[Lee St.Clair]

I think you guys should turn your passion to the other 'love' of your life. She deserves this for all the time she does not get it during hunting time. Believe me....there will be a pay off for you. (is that tmi?) Blessings, Lee

[Dave Suponski]

Actually Dean,Larry and I have missed the last two big storms but I think that is about to change.Its been pretty windy and cold but ya don,t have to shovel wind......:rolleyes:

[Destry L. Hoffard]

We're getting it here in Michigan today too. Winter is far from over here in the North....

Late goose season coming up across the river though, but if we keep getting snow a good field will be hard to find.

DLH

[calvin humburg]

Destry,
Goose hunting I love don't even have 2 kill one. Just love the sound a big ole honker. Landing them in the decks is the deal. I farm a fild close 2 a roost pond grow milo and wheat in it. Thought was going 2 have some good hunting but early cold came in frose water covered wheat with snow geese bugged out. Can,t find my dang super mag.
So i hunted fezent yeppie u go out walk some weeds fezent flys out u shoot it any dude from the city can do it and they do.They come in armys with 40 gallons of orange, dogs ,fancy hunting pants ect ect shoot some fezents think they r sumthing like i say yeppie honestly fezent hunting is kind of boring and it makes your legs tired. I killed fezent, quail ,cotten tail with my new girlfriend next year God willing going 2 kill ducks and hopefully a big old honker, cackler,speck and a snow or maby just 1 of the 4 I hope.
ch Mr. Blaricum how did you catch those fish around pratt you r a hand.

[Kenny Graft]

We have about 18" of snow and 24" drifts here in youngstown Ohio...Im gunna grab some buckshot, my 30" tight choked GHE and go look for coyotes. They have been plundering the area...have attacked hunting dogs...and killed small pets in recent days here in ohio. They have lost their fear of humans and need terminated!..., a 1929 Parker can do the job...Ill call it the terminator.....(-: Thanks all Kenny Graft SXS ohio....(-:

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Git 'em Kenny! I hate those critter more than anything other than maybe crows.

DLH

[Fred Preston]

More snow than we've had in quite a while. Pete and Bucko and I (too much snow for old Bonnie, Clyde and Max) went looking for bunnies today. The bunnies are smarter the we are and stayed holed up. The forecast doesn't call for a thaw for sometime; gotta get used to it. Got enough fuel for another 3 or 4 days then I've got to buck and break another load for the wood wagon.

[james van blaricum]

Calvin: I caught the trout in a trout pond the State of Kansas stocks at the Wildlife and Parks that is about a mile from my house. jvb

[Dean Romig]

I saw a dead coyote in the median on my way to work this morning that wasn't there yesterday... I kinda snickered to myself quietly... one of the "good" ones I thought, if you know what I mean.

[Jack Cronkhite]

Lee: Not tmi. Cold steel or warm partner? -30 February. Hmmmmmmm......
Richard: Good advice. I slipped into 3 feet of loose powder on a shorter pair. Another -30 hunt in the '90's and my hunting partner could only watch me struggle to free myself. Took 1/2 hour, pain and injury ultimately required to avoid hypothermia.
Coyotes: Saskatchewan has a problem and recently introduced a Coyote Control Program (http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/Coyote-Control) $20 per up to max $50,000 per individual. Now that's a lot of 'yotes for one Parker. Don't imagine there will be anyone max out. Even though plentiful, they are plenty smart too.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Jack,

That's good to know, will encourage some trapping on them for certain.


Destry

[Jack Cronkhite]

As well as the bounty, the hide can still be marketed so a successful hunter/trapper could do alright. I understand some states are monitoring this program's results for possible implementation. I chuckled a bit at this newspaper column clip:


The $20 bounty won't solve the problem, but it will provide a bit more incentive to hunters and trappers in the wake of depressed fur prices. More than anything, it's a sign the government recognizes a coyote problem.

Those who worry about the bounty tarnishing Saskatchewan's image should hunker down in their basements and watch some more Walt Disney re-runs.

[Richard Flanders]

I saw three coyotes on the hiway between Anchorage and Fairbanks last Saturday. They get really fat and shiny up here; nothing like the mangy scrawny furless things you see down south. I ran over one with a 1 ton pickup at 85mph up north once.... that was amusing to say the least.... They seem to be decimating deer in a big way.....I thought that was MY job...!

[Destry L. Hoffard]

The only state I'm aware of that currently has a bounty is Virginia, but hopefully more will get involved over the next few years.

When I was a boy in Southern Illinois there was still a bounty on ground hogs oddly enough. My Father used to hunt them regularly with a .243 Winchester rifle. In Williamson County the bounty was on the tail and in a nearby county it was on the ears so each one was worth $1 instead of .50 cents. He's save up the parts and a couple times a year he'd go in to get the cash. It was enough to buy a couple boxes of cartridges or a little gas so free entertainment!

[calvin humburg]

Mr. Blaircum,
I guess you cut a hole in ice and jigged for them? ch
Kenny, get any yots? were lucky we don't have a problem with them out here.

[Richard Flanders]

Michigan had a fox bounty up until around 1960 or just after. $5/male, $15/female. I knew a guy who actually dug a burrow up with a backhoe for the bounty on the kits. As soon as they took that bounty off the pheasants disappeared almost instantly and have never come back.

[Lee St.Clair]

[QUOTE=Jack Cronkhite;13027]Lee: Not tmi. Cold steel or warm partner? -30 February. Hmmmmmmm......
Mr. Cronnkhite,
Your question tells me you missed the point. So hmmmmmm....is right. More thoughts come to mind but are best left unsaid. :) Blessings, Lee

[calvin humburg]

whats tmi if its any of my business ch

[Jack Cronkhite]

that would be "too much information"

[Andrew Thompson]

Shoot snow geese

[Lee St.Clair]

ummmm......at times I get a bit too bold on here....may I ask you all to please excuse that. I feel like I know some of you from reading your posts. Me thinks that makes me step out just a bit too much. My apologies. As God reveals to me .....is not so much what you do...is the attitude in which you do it. I shall dwell on this. Blessings, Lee

PS I also look forward to meeting more of you one day...I am intrigued by the number of you that unabashedly show your passion.

[Jack Cronkhite]

Here is how it is in Saskatchewan. They come through in the millions. As well as the fall season (Sept 1 to Dec 16) there is a spring season (Apr 1 - May 31). Recipes here (http://www.deltawaterfowl.org/hunting/recipes/archive/024-goose.php)

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SPRING SNOW GOOSE - ALL HUNTERS

North and South Game Bird Districts

Hunters are not required to have a provincial game bird licence or habitat certificate for this hunt. Hunters are required to have in their possession while hunting snow geese in this season, a 2009 Federal Migratory
Game Bird Permit and stamp. Snow geese may be hunted all day during the spring season.

West of 106 degrees longitude: Apr. 1 - Apr. 30
East of 106 degrees longitude: Apr. 1 - May 31
Snow geese includes both white and blue phase

Snow geese: 20 daily
Possession: 60
No hunting of Ross' geese

[Dean Romig]

That looks like a bumper crop of Snows!

[Eric Eis]

Jack, can we use the old 8 bore on those snow's :rolleyes:

[Jack Cronkhite]

On those specific snows you can. Just print the image and attach to your pattern board. Alas, for the real thing, we are the same here as you - both nations being signatory to the Migratory Birds Convention. That is the law that banned the 8 gauge and bigger.

[Jack Cronkhite]

That looks like a bumper crop of Snows!

BUMP BUMPER BUMPEST

The field is covered and what you can't see is that the line of geese extends for over one mile and is approx 1/4 mile deep. It is always an amazing sight. The sound is deafening.

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[Richard Flanders]

Jack: That's a lottta goose sausage there!