What do you guys think would be the outcome if you were to put out all FFD feeder goose decoys?
If one could always manage that, he'd not need to think much.Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well...
Agree!! Can's always are looking aroundO.D.Lid said:I have never :no: seen a flock of geese without at least 1 head up that 1 may change while you are watching but as soon as one head goes down another one comes up!
Agree here as well!! People over think this stuff....Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well I don't think the geese will look at the decoys much.
See there's these things called "fences" and over these fences other people own fields that don't necessarily let people hunt so always being "in the right field" is not realistic for most so we have to pull them from where they're going and they WILL look at the decoys and be skeptical.Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well I don't think the geese will look at the decoys much.
Look at Cupped and Committed's LOCATION. He is in a state that gets as much if not MORE competition for fields than you Sooners ever will. Small state...TINY, LITTLE STATE, LOTS of hunters and limited access. If you are on the x the birds won't give your spread a second look and dump in without so much as a first pass as long as the decoys are upright and don't look like a special needs 5 year old put them out. Early season is usually even easier.luie b said:See there's these things called "fences" and over these fences other people own fields that don't necessarily let people hunt so always being "in the right field" is not realistic for most so we have to pull them from where they're going and they WILL look at the decoys and be skeptical.Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well I don't think the geese will look at the decoys much.
You apparently haven't been to Illinois then. People don't let you mushroom hunt anymore in the spring on their ground because they're afraid it will disrupt the deer, let alone give you the chance to shoot ducks and geese on their "deer hunting land."dsm16428 said:Look at Cupped and Committed's LOCATION. He is in a state that gets as much if not MORE competition for fields than you Sooners ever will. Small state...TINY, LITTLE STATE, LOTS of hunters and limited access. If you are on the x the birds won't give your spread a second look and dump in without so much as a first pass as long as the decoys are upright and don't look like a special needs 5 year old put them out. Early season is usually even easier.luie b said:See there's these things called "fences" and over these fences other people own fields that don't necessarily let people hunt so always being "in the right field" is not realistic for most so we have to pull them from where they're going and they WILL look at the decoys and be skeptical.Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well I don't think the geese will look at the decoys much.
It's not just the deer hunting ground either. In certain areas you'd have a hard time finding a field that hasn't already been leased.luie b said:You apparently haven't been to Illinois then. People don't let you mushroom hunt anymore in the spring on their ground because they're afraid it will disrupt the deer, let alone give you the chance to shoot ducks and geese on their "deer hunting land."dsm16428 said:Look at Cupped and Committed's LOCATION. He is in a state that gets as much if not MORE competition for fields than you Sooners ever will. Small state...TINY, LITTLE STATE, LOTS of hunters and limited access. If you are on the x the birds won't give your spread a second look and dump in without so much as a first pass as long as the decoys are upright and don't look like a special needs 5 year old put them out. Early season is usually even easier.luie b said:See there's these things called "fences" and over these fences other people own fields that don't necessarily let people hunt so always being "in the right field" is not realistic for most so we have to pull them from where they're going and they WILL look at the decoys and be skeptical.Cupped-n-Committed said:I think people "think" too much. If you're in the right field, are hidden well I don't think the geese will look at the decoys much.
It does have a lot to do with it when you aren't allowed in the field the geese are going to... I don't think you understand the situation...dsm16428 said:And who's fault is that? The deer INDUSTRY and that's exactly what it is, has more than tripled the price of land in many counties that hold big deer in a little over a decade. The only people that can afford it are folks with a lot of free income to have the capital to buy it at these insane prices. Look at the price per acre of land in IL now compared to say 1999. Rediculous. Its only natural that the waterfowl access would be affected as well. Simple trickle down effect. Having all that land locked down doesn't affect how birds are going to react to a decoy spread though. It the sheer number of hunters...usually doing it wrong and educating birds that do. Poor hides, shooting into large bunches of birds,throwing out the same cookie cutter spread day in and day out and a host of other factors are what make birds hard to hunt, NOT what land is fenced and what isn't. Has NOTHING to do with it...