#GOOSE SHELL LAYOUT BLIND HOW TO#

during the fall, so if you want to hunt them during the regular season, you have to know how to operate a call. And you can’t use an e-caller on snows here in the U.S. Learning to call snow geese takes time and effort, but it’s not overly difficult. It is still common in Canada, but electronic callers are allowed there from the start of the season, and birds get conditioned fast to the sounds from e-callers. John Gordonĭuring the spring conservation season snow goose boom there has been a sharp decline of fall light goose hunting across much of the country.

You Can Still Edge Hunt Snows A much younger version of the author after a morning on the coastal prairie of Texas. Movement must be kept to a minimum and faces need to be covered, but this is still a great concealment method. Get a seat, grab your choice of whites, and blend into the decoys. This tactic has come back in a big way to snow goose hunting These garments are lightweight and effective. Go old school and find a white parka, Tyvek suits, and/or white bibs. Add in brushing and possibly digging in to lower the profile of the blind and it all adds up to inconvenience and too much time wasted, especially if you are chasing the birds for a week straight. One is they are often cumbersome and a pain in the ass to transport into and out of the field (many farmers will not let hunters drive in this time of year because the fields are so wet). They are comfortable and a great way to eliminate hunter movement. John GordonĪs the spring conservation season gained steam, more hunters embraced the layout blind. Sit in the Decoys Tyson Keller with two blue geese after hunting in a traditional socks spread. But there are some tactics from a bygone era that will work…and put more snows in your decoys. I’m not saying you can throw a few hundred rags out like we used to back in the day and kill a pile of white every time. Snows are a very adaptive species, and today’s hunters should consider using proven tactics that these smart geese haven’t seen in more than three decades. With the change in agriculture practices, you can hardly kill a snow goose in coastal Texas anymore, but some of the old-school methods we used more than 30 years ago still work. Most hunters now target these birds during the spring conservation season, but back then Texas guides still primarily hunted in the fall, armed with mouth calls (not e-callers) and white rags tied to dowels as decoys. For years, I guided hunters from all around the U.S. In the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, Texas’ coastal prairie was THE SPOT to hunt snow geese. Try running an old-school snow goose rig to fool wary white birds.

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