Field Goose Hunting: Choose A Perfect Location
Goose Hunting Tips: Part I
Without question the best way to get more geese into your decoy spread is choosing the an ideal location for your field goose hunting decoy spread. One of the things that I see inexperienced goose hunters do poorly is choosing a great location for their spread. Canadian geese migrate south at the same time fields are being harvested in the heartland of America. This is overlooked when hunters go to set up hunting locations. As geese move from the resting locations in the morning to the fields to eat – they are seeking the easiest and most abundant food source they can find. Fields of corn and in particular wheat that is recently picked draw geese in like a magnet. Each day as they fly from resting locations to the fields they are able to see all of the fields that have been recently harvested and then are likely to return in the near future.
Befriending you local farmers in the summer and spring and learning when they are cutting their fields will open the doors to hunting their fields in the fall. This may be the most important secret to getting more geese. I have found many of the goose hunting videos covers the basics of this all important piece to successful field goose hunting.
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How To Blow A Short Reed Goose Call With Video
The short reed goose call has been a great addition to goose hunters everywhere. The range of calls possible with a short reed goose call is impressive, but unfortunately few people can take one out of the box and blow it well. The two key elements you must remember are to keep your tongue cemented to the top row of your front teeth and to create back pressure by cupping your two hands.
The video below is a good start for understanding how to blow a short reed goose call. Check it out and use the tips to improve your calling.
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The 3 Keys To Calling Geese When Hunting On The Water
To me it really comes down to 3 things when you are on the water hunting geese. In the field it is usually a different story, but on the water if you follow these three steps you will increase your success rate:
1) Use Your Goose Call To Get Their Attention
First, I use my goose call to get their attention. This is really a series of standard clucks. I want it to be a lilttle bit loud and maybe even a bit fast to get them to look. The only point of this is to get them to look in your direction and see your goose floaters.
2) Repeat The Notes That They Call To You
All you really are doing here in mimicing the goose as it calls to you. Usually when hunting the water this is a simple cluck. They will cluck to you and you will cluck back. This does two key things: it centers them on the goose blind and it gives them a sense of confidence.
3) Call Them All The Way To The Water
I've seen it too many times to count. A guy has a group of honkers with their wings set and seemingly on a string. They are coming in perfectly. He has called them from the other side of the lake and they are dead set on landing in his decoys. Suddenly when the geese are 100 yards away he stops calling and gets ready for the shot. The geese keep coming, but at 70 yards they get skittish and flare off never allowing a shot. The most important aspect of calling geese on the water is call them all the way to the water! Honestly, they want a sense of assurance that everything is all right. Geese are a vocal lot. Calling like crazy and then stopping is a warning flag to geese. So keep calling all the way until you call the shot. It will finish them great.
So there you have it, a simple 3 step approach to finishing geese in your decoys while hunting over water. Use these three steps and I assure you that you will improve your game bag!
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