how far does steel go

[kt]

check this out, i have a spot tha is incredible because of its proximity to city birds. well the field in one direction has live stock 200yds downwind, to the north a highway about 300yds away one house in between, anything to worry about sending bbb's up? would dropping back to ones make much difference?
kt

[TreeDoc]

kt,
You're not shootin' at Petting Zoo Ducks and Geese again are you? I thought the Mayor told you that you couldn't do that anymore!



To your question....
I think you're getting into pretty close constraints regardless of the shot size. I have hunted with about that much separation between blinds before and have been showered upon. Nothing bad mind you, it's all part of hunting ducks and expected to some degree but I would suspect that might not be the case in your situation. Steel pellets on the roadway might be a bad thing.

Now, leave the zoo ducks to the consumption of Wonder Bread and go to the outskirts of town!

[fabsroman]

kt,

I hunted about 200 yards from a horse barn with a metal roof ONCE and I can tell you that BB's made it that far and sounded pretty loud on that metal roof. The reason I said ONCE was because the landownder came storming out of the barn and he wasn't too happy with us. Since then, I haven't hunted that farm with my buddy. He had the permission to hunt it and I don't know if he lost it because of that incident. I also don't know who it was that made that shot, but the blind was lined up that way and that was the way the geese were coming in.

Nevada Jim once told me that Hevi-Shot could put an eye out and still break skin at 100 yards. That would probably make it to 300 yards easily. I also hunt next to a rode that is less than 200 yards away and I never worry about shooting that way as long as the shot is high in the air. Even if a pellet or two hit a car, the driver would probably not have a clue as to what it was and it wouldn't likely do any damage. At least I hope.

[kt]

but i love the city birds so much that i think they are so used to seeing people and that = food that even if they spot me they are still landing, some times i cant even jump them they just walk around, but its wing shooting over dekes so all is fair, they tell me they want less park geese any how. the new plan is to set up taking them over head maybe as the go to land 20 yds behind me instead of 10 foot up 20 yds out front. thanks guys,
ps. so what you're telling me is i shouldnt dig out that box of F shot lost in the basement somewhere?
kt

[DelDuck]

IMHO if you are the leagle distance away from the road and houses, go for it. just be carefull.

[Jack]

Didn't know there was a season on mall geese...

[fabsroman]

Personally, I have killed geese on a golf course a couple of times and that is more like extermination, not hunting. Maybe it could be classified as shooting or slaughtering.

[DelDuck]

I killed geese off a golf course once, but we used a bow. It was pretty wild how close we could get to the birds.

[trex]

Make sure you check the regulations!

[Eider]

I remember when i was younger I was on a goose hunt with my dad. he parked his truck in one corner of a corn field probly about 400 yards away. Well I shot a goose and crippled it so my dad went to back me up and doing so killed the goose and put a huge crack across his windsheild. I told him not to park the truck there in the first place but I was just a kid and he didnt listen.

[kt]

thanks guys, but for the record that spot went to hell, the guy that has the primary hunting permission on the farm was out there xmas eve morning and we saw him there so me and my cousin went to breakfast instead of hunting. and when we came back they were already gone at 8:00, so we grabbed a dozen silly's and killed our limit by 9. well that guy came back in the after noon and we had our limit hanging in the farmers barn. this guy said the reason he couldnt pull geese in the afternoon was because we shot at them in the morning after they left, so he told us we cant hunt it unless he's there, then went on to tell the farmer what A'holes we are. so that went down the tube, this guy and the farmer are cousins. its not because we were there that he didnt get them, its because he doesnt have my calling skillz!
kt

[fabsroman]

It is hard to tell why geese won't come into a field at any certain time. Obviously, that guy killed his limit in the morning and left and you guys killed your limit in the morning too. Somehow, I doubt that calling skills had anything to do with it. Either the guy was planning on breaking the law in the evening by shooting another limit or he had different hunters with him.

I have hunted a field in the morning with a friend, killed 10 geese and 5 ducks, called two other friends and called in the afternoon so that they could kill there 10 geese. Sure, if you guys shot at every single goose that came by that day, I seriously doubt that any would have come in in the afternoon no matter how well you call.

I have had days where I hunted a field in the morning and couldn't get a single goose to come in, but killed my limit in the evening. I have hunted a pond where we killed our limit in the morning and then guys came in the afternoon and killed their limit too.

Geese can be extremely unpredictable. I have seen geese feeding in a cornfield one morning, set up my decoys the next morning in the same cornfield, only to have the geese go across the street into a grass field. If any of us knew why geese picked certain fields over others, we would be rich, and that is to quote a friend of mine that I hunt with.

If I were you KT, I would try to be friends with that guy instead of thinking of him as a bad guy. When I first heard of Big Daddy, a guy who posts on here rarely but is friend with WT Kevorkian and I, it was because he was goose hunting one of the farms I hunt. I was worried that he would over hunt the farm and scare all the geese off for me. At the same time, he was worried about the same thing with me. We hunted the last day of the season together and barely killed anything. The next year, we hunted the first day of the season together, a couple of other days together, and now we are pretty good friends and hunt together a good deal. I no longer worry about whether he is going to kill all the geese because he also knows that if we over pressure them they will not come to the field anymore. Once you coordinate things with other hunters, it is easy to have the geese keep on coming back. As far as I am concerned, I would rather shoot groups of geese with as many hunters as possible to kill as many geese as possible in the group and not educate too many geese, versus having a couple of hunters on several different days shooting into several groups of geese a piece on the farm. If 10 geese come in, it is more likely that 5 or 6 hunters will kill the majority, or all of them, versus 2 hunters with 6 shells. Everybody has fun and friends are made.

With that said, there are way too many hunters out there that want to do things their way and don't want to hunt with other people that they don't know. I feel bad for those people. Hunting should be about having a good time and making friends. Most of us hunt with friends, so why not make some new friends when the chance presents itself.

[kt]

every goose that flew? no we didnt fire a shot at anything outside of 200 yds we have tried the friendship, blind buddies thing, this guy just wants it all for himself and there is no other way apparently, i will just have to check one more field under "lost hunting spots"
here is my plan for tomorrow on a different farm, a buddy of mine broke his leg but has got no hunting this year, well with a broken leg he has a lot of time off, so i am gonna go set up me, him and the eliminator he sits in and put a spread out in the snow. i will have to help if wings any i cant have a cripple chasing a cripple! i will let yall know how it pans out.
kt

[kt]

so here is how today went. his wife found out that he planned on going hunting in the snow and he gots talked out of it, so i set off by my lonesome. it was one of those days goose hunters will take happily, the ground for being in the teens, was just a little hard on the top making for easy sticking of dekes, wind and blizzard on and off, around 9 the geese started working real hard, i just had to tone down to little feeding talk from honks and they started piling in all around. well, being that i needed another goose like a hole in the head, i decided just to watch, i checked every bird for neck and leg bands as they land 8 foot away until about 100 had landed and left, then a single came all by hiself 5 foot up and at 20 yds, when i flipped the lids he didnt flare just kept coming, so at 5 yds i put it on his chin, well it wasnt pretty. snow geese everywhere, none would come down
kt