Snow Geese

[whitewalrus]

Anyone here hunt snow geese? Always wanted to get into it, just never have. The Canada Geese have been tough enough this year.

[Planner]

I have not done a guided snow goose hunt but schwacked one last year, my first goose of the season was a snow.

I think it would be a riot to go during conservation season with the boosted round count and no limits.


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[whitewalrus]

I have not done a guided snow goose hunt but schwacked one last year, my first goose of the season was a snow.

I think it would be a riot to go during conservation season with the boosted round count and no limits.


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Yeah I always wanted to have a go at them during the conservation season. I have seen a few here and there mixed in with the Canadas where I hunt on the front range.

[Gman]

Have the snow geese made a comeback in their numbers for hunting seasons? I remember during a guided hunt in Arkansas back in the '80s that they weren't legal to take. He told us a story where the guide's chocolate lab took off into the fog and he heard a great commotion. The dog came back with a snow goose in his mouth that he had killed with his teeth. The guide was worried because he had this restricted dead goose in his possession with multiple puncture wounds that looked like it was taken with a shotgun.

[whitewalrus]

Have the snow geese made a comeback in their numbers for hunting seasons? I remember during a guided hunt in Arkansas back in the '80s that they weren't legal to take. He told us a story where the guide's chocolate lab took off into the fog and he heard a great commotion. The dog came back with a snow goose in his mouth that he had killed with his teeth. The guide was worried because he had this restricted dead goose in his possession with multiple puncture wounds that looked like it was taken with a shotgun.

There is a conservation order now that allows most of the restrictions on their hunting lifted. During the normal goose season the limit has been 50/day and you have to use the normal methods to hunt geese. They are overpopulated now.

From the CO small game brochure (https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Ru...aterfowl.pdf):

IN LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER SEASON:Recorded or electronically amplified calls are allowed. Shotguns that hold more than 3 rounds in the chamber and magazine may be used in this season only. Hunting is allowed one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. A federal migratory bird stamp is not required, but a Colorado waterfowl stamp is.

[Gman]

Yeah, found this Canadian article: Exploding Arctic snow geese numbers stabilizing, but still high

In the last 20 years, new farming methods have resulted in better food supply along the big white birds' migration routes and their population has responded.

In the 1970s and '80s, there were between two million and three million snow geese in central North America. Now there are about 15 million.

Apparently they're so overpopulated that they're destroying their ecosystem.

I learned something else today.

[whitewalrus]

Yeah they have been trying to thin the population for some years now with the conservation order. Just figure I need to do my part

[FoxtArt]

I have an uncle that used to go to Kansas/Nebraska, I forgot where. I never wanted to do it myself as they'd come back with about 150-200 birds.

I want vacation to feel like vacation, not a full time job as a butcher LOL. Sure, fun to shoot, but daaaaym. I'd never eat all that even by the time I'm 95, wasting freezer space.

I have heard it's so bad that they often can comprehensive-fish kill entire ponds and small lakes overnight just from the super-flock resting and shitting over every square inch.

(ETA: Also one of their dogs died from cardiac failure, it's pretty rough on the dogs). Might be your cup of tea though!

[Gman]

Yeah they have been trying to thin the population for some years now with the conservation order. Just figure I need to do my part

Absolutely.

[Duman]

I have an uncle that used to go to Kansas/Nebraska, I forgot where. I never wanted to do it myself as they'd come back with about 150-200 birds.

I want vacation to feel like vacation, not a full time job as a butcher LOL. Sure, fun to shoot, but daaaaym. I'd never eat all that even by the time I'm 95, wasting freezer space.

Yeah...if there were a processing plant where you could donate them to feed the hungry....