I have been able to go every day of our woodduck and teal season. It is only 5 days long and the shooting is over by 7:00AM. Go to work ...shower..shave and open up 15 min. Not bad 7 teal and 4 wood ducks so far.
One more day

urdubob

What are teals and how you hunt them??
Enjoy your last day
LG

Lorenzo,

Teal have two common species - blue wing and green wing. They are a very small duck, and they migrate early, hence the early and short season. Though the teal season in Missouri opened on 9/6, I have not seen any this fall in the St. Louis area. In MO, you need small game hunting, MO waterfowl, and Federal duckstamp to hunt - and you'd better be using non-toxic shot!
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/birds/birdatlas/maintext/0400288.htm

Kudus to URDUBOB!

Bill

(Edited for some blatant typos)

[ 09-16-2003, 22:50: Message edited by: Bill M ]

Thanks Bill.
Shooting ducks is so great that I can't imagine what would be to shoot geese, must be incredible (not much down here ).

What loads are use for geese??

Question:When is just one is goose and when they are several is geese or the other way round ??

Thanks
LG

Lorenzo,

I have hunted Geese several times, but never had much luck.... The only one I can remember bringing to the bag was one which fell out of the sky - and I found it! Someone else must have "skyed" it, and it glided over close to our goose pit .

We have to use non-toxic (i.e. no lead) shot to hunt waterfowl in the US now. Shots at Geese may be "passing" shots where they come overhead at 75 yards or so. Most goose hunters use steel shot No. BB or 2s, "T", "F", in 3 1/2" 10 gauge or 12 gauge. By law, you can not shoot more than 10 shells at Canadian Geese in one day - maybe that's how they try to curtail "passing" shots. Big birds, long range, hard hunting. We usually hunt them in pits - like duck blinds dug into grain fields. You put the decoys out around the pit in the grain field.

My father has experienced much better Goose hunting that I have, he used to be in the Baltimore, MD area many years ago, and they hunted Canadian geese along the Chesapeake Bay. A guide told him one time - "do not shoot until you see the whites of their eyes". Of course, Geese have no "whites of their eyes", but that was more of an indication that they are bigger than they look, and a lot farther away than they appear.

Snow geese are hunted differently, but I don't have much experience (or good luck) hunting them either!

Single is "Goose", plural "Geese", and instead of a "flock", it is called a "gaggle" of geese.

These Teal are small fast-flying ducks, and a 20/12 gauge with a standard load of #4-6 steel shot will work when you hit them....

Best regards, and if you ever get to throw some shot at these Geese, I wish you good hunting!

Bill

[ 09-16-2003, 23:39: Message edited by: Bill M ]

U & Bill:

Don't forget the cinnamon teal, here in Arizona we rarely get a blue wing, but we gets lots of cinnamons.

I really like to hear a guy say how lucky he is, it shows a great deal of respect for what we do. I also have been very lucky, as I have been able to make 11 of the 15 day dove season here in AZ. I can't go on weekends, as work gets in the way.

Regards;

Jerry

Bill,
Thanks for your description of geese hunting.
That must be increadible!!
I hope to do it some day
Good hunt & thanks
LG

Well I missed the last day. I have hurt a disc in my back and it gave out again last night. I could not get out of bed this morning......took an hour to get shoes and socks on.

Bow season opens in three weeks....I hope I can go!

Urdubob

PS ...I still am a lucky guy...every day I get up!

[ 09-17-2003, 16:45: Message edited by: urdubob ]

Lorenzo:

If you've got a couple of weeks, fly up to Texas and we'll drive to Canada (2 1/2 loooong days) and shoot some big geese, mallard ducks, and some hungarian partridges.

Otherwise, go over to your small neighboring country to the west and head South next June or July.

Gato Gordo: I�m tempted to join the small game (read cat) hunting people!. Small neighbor to the west my ...ss!. Lorenzo can come here and wet his back in the frozen ground waiting for ashy heads anytime he wants...I�ll be safe and warm far from him in the car

Gato,
It will be great to shoot some of those argentinian flying chikens
They are big but I never thought shooting them before. What is the name for the argentinian geese in english??

Maybe nainital can introduce us to some argentinian ladies to combat the cold ground.

I love argentinians, they believe to be the inventors of the tango, the dulce de leche, the mate, the asado, etc, etc, etc. Poor people
They always copy everything from us...but I still don't know from where thay learn that nasty tradition of urinating someone else foot

LG

The Argentinian goose is the Magellan of course. In Spanish "avutarda". By the way, we use to feed our neighbors some doves in days of yore. Thus they are called "carne de paloma" ...smile when you call them that or you�ll be knifed

Ashy heads and Magellan as Naintal said are the 2 types of geese that small country has...

I've only hunted geese over there one time, we didn't really have the best of goose hunting, but the countryside was so beautiful, with the Andes in the background and fresh snow that it was a grand experience anyway. Plus, we had a wonderful time chasing those overgrown bunny rabbits around. Now that is challenging.

Ummmm, dulce de leche......Argentine Ladies....hard to decide which is sweeter.....but luckily it is possible to have both....

Gato Gordo: we have changed the hunting locations a bit, thus the shooting is truly incredible, fast and furious almost like our dove shooting. Feeding grounds in the southernmost portion of the Buenos Aires Province are now decoyed, the birds readily answer calling and for perhaps two or three hours very early in the morning you can bring down several dozens. These are pests it should be noted, and farmers often drive them out to the ocean with choppers. Season comprises mostly winter time therefore the weather can be very cold. Camo clothes are a must and we use lead shot, a semiautomatic 12 gauge being the recommended medicine. The one and only trouble that Argentine geese hunting has is it nearness to those nuts, the Uruguayans who always are begging for their foots to be urinated.