Slim pickins

[Ralph]

#5361

Pretty bare bones around here for these geese and everything else for that matter. Green astro turf might make good combination hide and attractant!:D

[David Petersen]

#40074

Ralph — I once bow-killed two Canadas the same day in very similar “terrain” only without the road, as it was on the Navajo Res. in NM. I snuck up on ’em via an irrigation ditch with cottonwoods, something like the one on the left in this pic. Amazingly hard to get a shot when several hundred geese are all around you! So far so good, until I tried to find a way to make them edible. Yuck is all I can say, like spoiled liver. No offense to anyone who knows how to cook geese, but even the most avid goose hunter I know can only stomach the dark red meat as jerky. This puts them in the category of “rather watch and listen to them than kill them.” What a great evolutionary defense mechanism for your species, that nothing can stand to eat you. 😛

[Raymond Coffman]

#40102

Dave –

I was never a big Goose Hunter, But the only ones I hunted much { because they were the only ones I liked to eat} or would hunt today are Canadas. But I did learn to cook them to my pers taste.

Thanksgiving is Turkey and for Christmas it is Goose — Traditionally—

You are ahead of me Dave, I have not shot one with a bow! –A future Challenge.

Scout

[lyagooshka]

#40103

Dave,

Thank you for reminding me of a question I had. I agree about the jerky BTW. Actaully great jerky, otherwise, not so much. On to the question: What are thoughts on the ethics of shooting birds (like geese, actually, geese) on the ground versus on the wing? I am strictly talking about filling the freezer (dehydrator, actually).

Next, how about bird hunting in general? In have NO experience, but I have seen [previews of] wing-shooting videos that show pheasants flying away with an arrow sticking out of them. Somehow makes me lean towards the old smoke-pole.

Sorry if this is off topic. Be well.

Alex

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[Etter1]

#45867

They do make great jerky. I’m not a die hard waterfowler (even though I love to duck hunt), but I wish everybody would give me their goose breasts just to make jerky with.

[paleoman]

#46970

lyagooshka wrote: Dave,

Thank you for reminding me of a question I had. I agree about the jerky BTW. Actaully great jerky, otherwise, not so much. On to the question: What are thoughts on the ethics of shooting birds (like geese, actually, geese) on the ground versus on the wing? I am strictly talking about filling the freezer (dehydrator, actually).

Next, how about bird hunting in general? In have NO experience, but I have seen [previews of] wing-shooting videos that show pheasants flying away with an arrow sticking out of them. Somehow makes me lean towards the old smoke-pole.

Sorry if this is off topic. Be well.

Alex

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I would have absolutely not one qualm about shooting a goose, grouse or pheasant on the ground with my bow…assuming it’s legal and you are within your personal limits. “Them’s what hits ’em in the air is too slow to hit ’em on the ground!” said an old Mainer I once knew – not real ethical with a shotgun but heck ya with a bow, for me anyway.

[Ralph]

#46981

Nor moi!!!!!

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