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Post by jcceadotcom on Sept 24, 2006 13:12:45 GMT -5
I had to attend a meeting at Ft. Harrison in Indy Saturday. I was just flabbergasted by all the geese I saw at apartment complexes and over at Post airport.
I would really like to see an estimated population for just Marion county.
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Post by 911 on Sept 24, 2006 13:34:07 GMT -5
Yep they are everywhere in Lawrence.
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Post by shootsa410 on Sept 24, 2006 13:59:29 GMT -5
Infested. I watch some big groups out my office window land in the soccer fields every day. They too leave their safety net in January.
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Post by hotshot on Sept 25, 2006 10:10:05 GMT -5
This is an issue I've taken to heart for more than several years . The early goose season is an attempt to get the population under control. However, the dual use of waterways- boating/fishing, and hunting always leads to unhapppy boaters, and the geese are not really impacted all that much anymore. If we could utilize a goose season similar to the snow goose season, the nesting pairs would be broken up, thus reducing the annnual surge of young birds, and "city birds" fly to surrounding ag land to feed, making themselves huntable.
I have a letter that's been circulated umpteen times, I'll put it up again if there is an interest in a letter campaign.
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Post by supr87gt on Sept 25, 2006 10:26:48 GMT -5
Or if all of the complainers would simply grant permission to hunt their goose infested ponds. All the people around Greenfield write in the paper all the time about the goose problem. The problem is getting the permission to shoot them.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Sept 25, 2006 11:49:59 GMT -5
I'd like to set up a ground blind on some retention ponds in Indy and shoot some with a bow. Silently thins them out, plus they still might catch on that they aren't welcome there.
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Post by jcceadotcom on Sept 25, 2006 15:28:47 GMT -5
Chico thats exactly what we were discussing on the trip to Indy; an archery hunt in Marion county.
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Post by shootsa410 on Sept 25, 2006 18:05:02 GMT -5
A 15 day February season with a daily 10 bird limit. ;D
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Post by jwkimber45 on Sept 25, 2006 20:46:03 GMT -5
A 15 day February season with a daily 10 bird limit. ;D + Bazzilion!!!!! |
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Post by duff on Oct 1, 2006 9:00:31 GMT -5
I never had liked the option of archery hunting geese. Most have a hard enough time with a shotgun. Geese running around with arrows sticking out of them make for front page stories.
I know there are some most exelent archers who would never wound an animal....blah, blah, blah. Stick with shotguns on the geese.
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Post by dec on Oct 2, 2006 8:13:01 GMT -5
Late January or a February season. 10 or more bag limits. That is what is needed. I'd be out there most days hammering them. So many corn fields to hunt. Oh the possibilities.
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Post by supr87gt on Oct 2, 2006 12:20:09 GMT -5
I never had liked the option of archery hunting geese. Most have a hard enough time with a shotgun. Geese running around with arrows sticking out of them make for front page stories. I know there are some most exelent archers who would never wound an animal....blah, blah, blah. Stick with shotguns on the geese. Yes. Especially with all of the skybusters running around shooting and wounding but not killing geese. That would be a horrible idea. |
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