This past weekend was very frustrating for me so I have to sound off! I know several great NR hunters that respect the land and the resource. However, with the influx of more and more NR comes the idiots, and it only takes a few!
I contacted a landowner who said it was ok to hunt his land and I planned to hunt geese and ducks on Saturday morning. He stated there was another group of people that "may" go in-so he said go in early and close the gate and if someone else showed up- they would know to go to the other field and visa versa. There are 2 fields there, which make up almost 2 full sections of land. We were out setting up our decoys around 6:30 A.M when in comes this vechicle. Now, I don't have a problem at this point. They go and sit on a hill across from us and watch us setting up decoys for about 15 minutes with their headlights shining on us. No Problem-didn't understand what they were doing. Then about 7 am, they move their vehicle about 250 yards from our decoys and set up another spread???? I'm thinking we have 2 square miles of fields here and your setting up there!! I was going to go say something but didn't because I didn't know who they were- I thought they might be local friends of the owner. Then came sunrise and low a behold they have a couple dozen snow geese windsocks and a robo duck in the middle!! Low budget-I guess. I have been hunting/scouting in this area and have not seen any snow geese.
At this point I could still live with our guests-until the geese started coming :sniper: I have about 8 dozen "canadian" geese decoys and a robo duck and 1/2 decoys I sit off to the side. Anyway, the geese and ducks were coming in,however they had to fly over a fence line to get there. These idiots leave their spread and go sit on the fence adjacent to my spread and start "sky blasting" virtually scaring off anything the remotely looked at our decoys :******: We ended up getting some ducks, but only had 1 small group of geese make it around the "anti-aircraft" fire :evil: The kicker was when they were leaving- they drove around the field, apparently thinking they shot something-"they didn't cause I was watching" and then had the nerve to drive by and wave at us like they were friends of ours :eyeroll: Then, in a blink of an eye it all came together when I seen the Minnesota plates
I know these jerks aren't reflective of the bulk of NR- but we should post a section on proper goose hunting methods cause nobody wins this way :sniper:
I contacted a landowner who said it was ok to hunt his land and I planned to hunt geese and ducks on Saturday morning. He stated there was another group of people that "may" go in-so he said go in early and close the gate and if someone else showed up- they would know to go to the other field and visa versa. There are 2 fields there, which make up almost 2 full sections of land. We were out setting up our decoys around 6:30 A.M when in comes this vechicle. Now, I don't have a problem at this point. They go and sit on a hill across from us and watch us setting up decoys for about 15 minutes with their headlights shining on us. No Problem-didn't understand what they were doing. Then about 7 am, they move their vehicle about 250 yards from our decoys and set up another spread???? I'm thinking we have 2 square miles of fields here and your setting up there!! I was going to go say something but didn't because I didn't know who they were- I thought they might be local friends of the owner. Then came sunrise and low a behold they have a couple dozen snow geese windsocks and a robo duck in the middle!! Low budget-I guess. I have been hunting/scouting in this area and have not seen any snow geese.
At this point I could still live with our guests-until the geese started coming :sniper: I have about 8 dozen "canadian" geese decoys and a robo duck and 1/2 decoys I sit off to the side. Anyway, the geese and ducks were coming in,however they had to fly over a fence line to get there. These idiots leave their spread and go sit on the fence adjacent to my spread and start "sky blasting" virtually scaring off anything the remotely looked at our decoys :******: We ended up getting some ducks, but only had 1 small group of geese make it around the "anti-aircraft" fire :evil: The kicker was when they were leaving- they drove around the field, apparently thinking they shot something-"they didn't cause I was watching" and then had the nerve to drive by and wave at us like they were friends of ours :eyeroll: Then, in a blink of an eye it all came together when I seen the Minnesota plates