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I Need Someone to Slap My Face

CZMark said:
Or kick my butt.

I got back into bow hunting 5 or 6 years ago when I lost the last of my goose hunting spots. A month ago, through no fault of my own, one of those spots was re-opened to me. Now, the waterfowl bug has again bitten me badly.

Instead of practicing my climbing techniques, I'm practicing my goose calling; instead of shooting my bow, I've been at the local sporting clays course. Early goose opens on Friday--I took the day off work and plan to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Monday. If things go well, there is no telling what could happen; If you think saddle hunting is an expensive rabbit hole, get into serious goose hunting.

Draw straws, flip coins, start a lottery or find a volunteer--one of you needs to come to my house and knock some sense into me.
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I'm tired of stepping in goose crap fishing around here. Kill every goose you see. If you do...no slap only a big hug!
 
Exhumis said:
Saddle hunting for geese. Maybe you’re onto something - they’ll never see that coming.
Seriously tho it’s good to have other pursuits and hobbies. It doesn’t apply to everyone but I’ve known folks that got burnt out deer hunting cuz that’s all they did.
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I've only hunted flooded timber a few times, but when we had high flying birds that stayed just out of range, it occurred to me that if I were 30 feet up one of those trees in my climber (now my saddle), they'd be in range.
 
I got bit hard by waterfowl last year. I’m in the same boat. Barely shot my bow this year. Don’t even have a license yet for deer. But damned if I don’t have a full suite of new waterfowl gear, and am stoked for early teal this weekend, and have a goose hunt lined up.
 
OSUTodd said:
I've only hunted flooded timber a few times, but when we had high flying birds that stayed just out of range, it occurred to me that if I were 30 feet up one of those trees in my climber (now my saddle), they'd be in range.
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Not many flooded timber areas around owasso, We've probably had the same though in the same areas. :tearsofjoy:
 
CZMark said:
Or kick my butt.

I got back into bow hunting 5 or 6 years ago when I lost the last of my goose hunting spots. A month ago, through no fault of my own, one of those spots was re-opened to me. Now, the waterfowl bug has again bitten me badly.

Instead of practicing my climbing techniques, I'm practicing my goose calling; instead of shooting my bow, I've been at the local sporting clays course. Early goose opens on Friday--I took the day off work and plan to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Monday. If things go well, there is no telling what could happen; If you think saddle hunting is an expensive rabbit hole, get into serious goose hunting.

Draw straws, flip coins, start a lottery or find a volunteer--one of you needs to come to my house and knock some sense into me.
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Hopefully you didn’t sell all your goose gear before getting out of it the first time. That’s when it really gets bad!
 
CZMark said:
Or kick my butt.

I got back into bow hunting 5 or 6 years ago when I lost the last of my goose hunting spots. A month ago, through no fault of my own, one of those spots was re-opened to me. Now, the waterfowl bug has again bitten me badly.

Instead of practicing my climbing techniques, I'm practicing my goose calling; instead of shooting my bow, I've been at the local sporting clays course. Early goose opens on Friday--I took the day off work and plan to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Monday. If things go well, there is no telling what could happen; If you think saddle hunting is an expensive rabbit hole, get into serious goose hunting.

Draw straws, flip coins, start a lottery or find a volunteer--one of you needs to come to my house and knock some sense into me.
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Seems like Oklahoma doesn't get much of a migration until after the first few weeks of November so I get to rut hunt and then go chase some birds. 01-13-2022_SHOT0002_001_1.gif
 
kbetts said:
I don't get it. I have done both seriously for years.

Early season goose may be my least favorite. Yea, you get shooting, but then you have a pile of hot meat to clean in 85 degree heat. And if you've ever smelled a dead goose in the heat, you know what I'm talking about.
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I cleaned a goose in freezing cold temps and I still know what you're talking about...
 
coming from an old dude that has done both, its good to diversify and enjoy both if you can afford the time and money. dont let them (both hobbies) affect your family time.
 
Swampwalker said:
Now bowhunting for waterfowl, you've got my attention.
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Ain't all that. Granted I was water swatting them. Took 4 before I had to pick up the shotgun and finish my limit. Years ago when I was still working for dad, I shot geese with a bow on a new subdivision. We were doing the utilities in it and the detention pond had a 6x6' box culvert at the pond edge. Hid in it, half dozen full body honker decoys, killed 4 or 5, then got chewed out by dad :tearsofjoy:Screenshot_20230831_074628_Gallery.jpg
 
kbetts said:
I was one of less than 400 that got drawn for a tundra swan permit this year. I've strongly considered the longbow with a 200 grain ACE Super Express on the end of a hickory shaft.

You only get one.
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Now that would be exciting. I'm thinking gobbler guillotine or magnus bull head. If I get a good wad of ducks on one of my ponds I may try that
 
It's not an either-or proposition. I shoot more grouse while deer hunting than when grouse hunting. Probably not feasible to go for both geese and deer in one day but you'd have a hell of a story if you pulled it off.
 
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