Hunting trip flies by at 3,000 gph
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Ran Across this article, thought I would share this with all of my followers:
Hunting trip flies by at 3,000 gph
I’m not going to tell you that last weekend’s goose hunt was great because it wasn‘t. It was almost unbelievable!
We had geese in the air over our decoys 30 minutes before shooting time, 30 minutes before sun up, at sun up and for the next hour and a half. that’s around 21⁄2 hours of constant geese in the air over our decoys.
When there are a few birds to a flock and a few flocks, it’s easy to get an accurate count of the number. When the flocks turn into a stream, counting birds is like weighing a fish after it got off. Having time that morning, I put together the following formula.
Flying from south to north in a two-minute frame there were four flocks of geese. Each flock had around 25 birds giving us 100 geese every two minutes. Two times five gives you 10 minutes and 500 geese. Six times ten gives you 3,000 geese per hour, about 7,500 for the time we were hunting and that’s only the geese flying in a line directly in front of me and at telephone pole height. Not counted were the flocks that came into our decoys nor the geese behind us or above us or the ones we could not see in the dark or hear in the clouds. In other numbers “one heck of a bunch of geese.”
Five of us limited out on Canada geese and harvested four different varieties of Canada geese from two of the largest — one was banded — down to several of the small mallard duck size. The smaller Canadas winter in Oklahoma, and as all the geese we saw were coming up from the south we wondered if they were riding warm air up from the Salt Plains or the watershed ponds of Barber County?
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Ran Across this article, thought I would share this with all of my followers:
Hunting trip flies by at 3,000 gph
I’m not going to tell you that last weekend’s goose hunt was great because it wasn‘t. It was almost unbelievable!
We had geese in the air over our decoys 30 minutes before shooting time, 30 minutes before sun up, at sun up and for the next hour and a half. that’s around 21⁄2 hours of constant geese in the air over our decoys.
When there are a few birds to a flock and a few flocks, it’s easy to get an accurate count of the number. When the flocks turn into a stream, counting birds is like weighing a fish after it got off. Having time that morning, I put together the following formula.
Flying from south to north in a two-minute frame there were four flocks of geese. Each flock had around 25 birds giving us 100 geese every two minutes. Two times five gives you 10 minutes and 500 geese. Six times ten gives you 3,000 geese per hour, about 7,500 for the time we were hunting and that’s only the geese flying in a line directly in front of me and at telephone pole height. Not counted were the flocks that came into our decoys nor the geese behind us or above us or the ones we could not see in the dark or hear in the clouds. In other numbers “one heck of a bunch of geese.”
Five of us limited out on Canada geese and harvested four different varieties of Canada geese from two of the largest — one was banded — down to several of the small mallard duck size. The smaller Canadas winter in Oklahoma, and as all the geese we saw were coming up from the south we wondered if they were riding warm air up from the Salt Plains or the watershed ponds of Barber County?
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