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Hello traditional bowhunting community. Hunting season is approcing very fast and I was wondering what the rest of you think about a certain topic. So far I know of only me and MR. Barta that do this. I have also seen Ron Lclair and some of his freinds doing it as well but they had to inorder to hunt in that area. Hunting waterfowl on the wing with traditional gear. I have yet to accomplish this but have come extremely close. Barta was lucky on his mallard but the goose was a good shot. Just wondering if anyone else out there is doing it?
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I havn’t tried it yet, but I was planning on it come October. I just wondering what to do if my arrow stays in the bird. I would hate to think what could happen with my Labrador and an arrow? Plus, my lab will give me the ” where is the over and under” look when we head out to jump shoot!
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yea, I dont know about retreiveing it with a dog, you might have to do it yourself?
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I was thinking that, but I hate to leave him home. Plus my waders have a hole right in the crotch. That’s my reasoning for a retrieving dog. I know you probably shoot flu flu arrows, but what type of points do you use? Dove season here starts Sept 1st, but I can barely hit them with my over and under, let alone my stick bow. I will keep in touch and try and get a picture with a webbed foot. Best of luck CP
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wow hole in the croch that must suck especially in the dead of winter. I use a judo almost all the time, but during this last season I thought it would be best to use a broadhead when I am shooting in the air, the flu flus slow them down so much. I am going to go at it with a bow for doves again, I think it is definatly possible. Tim Wells did it, but he has a bit more speed with his compound. I think that you will find that you will try to find a place to hunt waterfowl where it is not water because the arrows sink like rocks. I have taken shots around a little creek down the street from me but it is only like two feet deep at most. I will also keep in touch! I think this is the year for my first aerial harvest, I want to shoot a grouse on the wing to but that is almost as crazy as doves!
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I have hunted Canada geese with bow and arrow over alfalfa stubble, where they winter near here on the Navajo Reservation. That way you have a chance of recovering your arrow and those tremendously strong birds that will almost definitely run and/or fly off with your arrow, if it stays in. Recovery odds very low. I might try it for ducks over water with a good retriever. But I frankly think more of my arrows than I do of most waterfowl flesh (personal bias, sorry). Blue grouse and turkeys are challenge enough for me. Lots of guys like to shoot at pheasants with archery gear, very traditional. Here again you need a dog, preferably one that can sniff out arrows among corn stubble! 😆
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I am not sure why or how this even came about, but my lab has a knack for finding lost arrows. I was “clump” shooting on some grassy foothills for the lack of “stumps” in the area, I underestimated the distance and sent my legacy 2016 into a neverending sage brush flat. As if on cue, my Labrador gave me a funny look and then off he went tail wagging. A minute later he returned with my arrow, he dropped it at my feet and went about his business. I wiped the slobber off of the feathers and returned shooting. He will randomly do this sometimes, I guess he feels the need to earn his keep sometimes:D
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that sounds like a awesome gift for a dog. Chris Brackett from Arrow Afliction and founder of aerial bowfishing actually was practicing for frogs with pingpong balls on top of the water and his dog went and got them all, like alomst all at the same time to, that was really impressive!
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With the right training, I’m sure that any retriever could be taught to go sniff out lost arrows. I’d be worried that the dog might damage wood or aluminum arrows, although I know that a lot of training goes into teaching a dog to have a “soft mouth” for bird hunting. I know a few people that have dogs that are better shed antler hunters than any person on a game farm’s winter pasture could ever strive to be.
Michael.
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I haven’t tried it myself, but there is an AMAZING video of the great Ben Pearson, shooting both duck on the wing and pheasants, along with one of the most amazing long distance shots ever captured on film (and probably ever made!) and I know that the son of the late Mr. Pearson (a great shot himself) has the dvd for sale on ebay. It’s called “The Legendary Hunts of Ben Pearson”, and is THE film that personally sparked and kept alive my passion for traditional archery. Worth a look!!
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I cant wait untill tommorrow morning!!! I will be out there before light and see if I cant hit a goose in the air with my bow, the camera will tag along and if I can do it I think I will be the first person in the world to take a goose on the wing and self film it!!!!! I will keep you guys posted!
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Ive done that before,11-87 though, but then you use it! Just my bow, there will be plenty of opportunities when the geese are more presured, right now they fly so low I could touch them with the tip of my fly rod!
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I limit myself to ruffed or spruce grouse, when they aren’t moving.
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well guys, the geese have been flying in and landing like clock work for the last six days, they have been spending the night in the feild till about ten in the morning. So I get up before light planning to sneak in close and when it got light I would flush them like pheasants, of course they werent there. Then this evening I was waiting for them to fly in and land and get a good aerial shot when they were locked up, of course they dont show, I think they didnt like the booming of the entire country because of dove season. I did partake in that and did fairly well, 6 doves in about 20 minuets, then I switched to my bow and had a blast trying to get one of those in the air. If you havent tried that you should I think you will pleasantly suprise yourself, I did! Im not that worried, its a long season and this was only the first day!!!
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i had a little or a lot of luck this past goose season. missed a few ducks, but i’ll be back at them this year as well. i was also on a field edge with a great caller. didn’t lose a single arrow in 10 shots.
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were you using flu-flus or just regular arrows. I have tried both, and I am really torn, now it doesnt make much of a difference because I use pink feathers now and I can find my arrows in the middle of a feild pretty easy. I am a decent caller, I can turn geese from 400 yards away, and make them come to me, but that didnt happened overnight, lots of trial and error. I called in alot of geese last year but none came in range for the bow, untill i brought out the shotgun then they came close? I have a really good feeling about this season, even if last night was a bust, I didnt call last night but I think I should have, the geese were coming into the feild like clock work I didnt think they needed coaxing!?
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David Petersen wrote: I have hunted Canada geese with bow and arrow over alfalfa stubble, where they winter near here on the Navajo Reservation. That way you have a chance of recovering your arrow and those tremendously strong birds that will almost definitely run and/or fly off with your arrow, if it stays in. Recovery odds very low. I might try it for ducks over water with a good retriever. But I frankly think more of my arrows than I do of most waterfowl flesh (personal bias, sorry). Blue grouse and turkeys are challenge enough for me. Lots of guys like to shoot at pheasants with archery gear, very traditional. Here again you need a dog, preferably one that can sniff out arrows among corn stubble! 😆
David Do you know Ron the taxidermist in Pagosa? he has a dog that sniffs out arrows anywhere. Awesome to watch his dog work. I have watched him pull out several arrows at 3-D shoots.
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