Waterfowl Hunting! Goose Fields!

[RedRussell]

Hey everyone! I am trying to find someone who has a field or two that would be good for Goose hunting. Growing up in Nebraska and having my Grandpa's corn and wheat fields really spoiled me. I am looking to only go out a few times since I am in pre-mob training now and I leave in January for my deployment so I won't have much time. I am willing to work as trade for the use, I can't afford to pay for a lease but I can work! I would be more than happy to just go out with someone too, I have pretty much everything, Shells(3doz) Full bodies(1doz) and floaters(1doz) all good quality stuff. I have a massive duck setup as well but I limit out going to public land so I am good for ducks. I have one retrieving vet and I have a rookie dog this year too. I have everything you need except a fancy layout blind pretty much! please let me know. I can start working now to earn the usage. If someone knows of some good public places I would love that info too! Thanks!

[Nomad]

 Have several sections of land to hunt in magic valley region.
 For setting up decoys on .
 This offer is open to any of the Boise Shooters who wish to hunt over their decoys
some years are good and some suck early winter will bring them in..
 The only draw back is that you will have to hunt while I am there either hunting
or working this is all private land you hunt......

[RedRussell]

I am all for it! Like I said I would love to take the owner or his representative out with me! That area is actually sort of where I was looking to try and find somebody! I will send you a PM with my cell phone so that we could meet up. I drive back and forth to Salt Lake every week and I come back to Boise for the Weekends.

[Precise]

Have several sections of land to hunt in magic valley region.
 For setting up decoys on .
 This offer is open to any of the Boise Shooters who wish to hunt over their decoys
some years are good and some suck early winter will bring them in..
 The only draw back is that you will have to hunt while I am there either hunting
or working this is all private land you hunt......

Wow! Thanks Nomad, I'll be in touch. When is the best time? December into January?  I have a bunch of mag. shells and would love to have the privilege for hunting on private land in the Magic Valley. I have a (young) lab as well.

Precise

[Nomad]

 The best time is when the northern s start to come in and then
you will be good to go, this is over land along the snake south and west of Wendell,Id
 Some corn ground there.....

[luckypunk]

ugh, long drive...I'd split gas money on a road trip/overnighter.  got decoys let me know

[MarkinIdaho]

Hey Nomad... any pheasants on the property?  Any chance of hunting it?

I'm getting tired of hunting the Fish and Game preserves for an extra $25 to take my boy out... too many hunters, not enough birds.  I miss the days when I was a kid and they could be found more often.

[BadtzMaru]

So I have a question.  I was watching a show on the Outdoor Channel a few weeks back and the guys were goose hunting in a field somewhere in the midwest.  They would set out decoys and wait for a bunch of geese to land.  Then they would shoot into them.  First shot was always at geese on the ground, after that they were flying.  Is that considered "sporting" around here?  I've never hunted waterfowl but had always heard that ground shots were frowned upon.

[Nomad]

 MarkinIdaho Not many game birds in this area there is several fields of corn
which would help pull waterfowl to them ......
 Met with Red Russel looks like he will be coming down.....

[Precise]

So I have a question.  I was watching a show on the Outdoor Channel a few weeks back and the guys were goose hunting in a field somewhere in the midwest.  They would set out decoys and wait for a bunch of geese to land.  Then they would shoot into them.  First shot was always at geese on the ground, after that they were flying.  Is that considered "sporting" around here?  I've never hunted waterfowl but had always heard that ground shots were frowned upon.

Good question! It's an ongoing argument that is only answered from your own ethics toward hunting. I usually let a the lead bird or two or three land before opening fire on the rest still in flight, since they land with the lead goose first, then the rest of the "V" lands very shortly afterward.  I personally wouldn't let them all land and shoot them after they were a flock (geese on the ground). I've also lost a lot of geese by hunting this way and don't regret it either.

[Nomad]

 Boils down to the ethics of the shooters....