Canada Snow Goosing Hunting Trip

SprayNPray

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Thinking about going up to Canada snow goose hunting for my first time(diy hunt). Wondering if anybody has any helpful hints or tips on where to go and what is need to cross the border?
 


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Drive Northwest till you find the birds and then drive another 100 miles. You should be in them. I hunted up there for many yrs. Best waterfowl hunting ever.

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Get your firearms declaration filled out but do not sign. They will tell you to sign it. Have your passport ready. Health certicate if you have a dog. Plan on a hr or two at customs.
 
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One thing you may want to keep in mind is it sounds like the hatch was a complete bust so hunting may be extremely tough.
 

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If the hatch is a bust it will effect the whole flyway. Even if no eggs hatched this summer the hunting would still be real good up there. Go up there you will have a good hunt.
 

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What province? SK and AL has great field hunting and field access is easy once the crops are down.Quill lake is a major staging area IN sk and local outfitters will have alot of the land locked up but you can find spots off the beaten path further west.Miss going up there but its a hassel these days crossing to and from,at least for me so we stay stay in the states these days.

Wonder why we (the usa) can't secure our borders like "oh Canada":confused:
 
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Wonder why we (the usa) can't secure our borders like "oh Canada":confused:

Probably because we have a country called "Mexico" to the south of us, while they have a country called "USA" to the south of them. Big difference. :;:huh
 

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We are not trying to take the jobs Canadians don't want to do...haha
 

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Yeah I get it and we're not poppin babies out and anchoring ourselves down up there like the Mexicans are doing here.
 

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This is out of the paper in Houston. If you have never hunted a bust year they make normal year snows look stupid! If you going up north I would make ducks or darks the priority not the snows. That said with a bust year you can look for them to run a week or two faster then normal.

[QUOTE.] The longer white-front season this year could be a savior for goose hunters on Texas coastal prairies. While early reports from nesting grounds indicate "specks" are seeing at least average success in producing goslings, reports from some of the main snow and Ross's goose nesting colonies in the Arctic and sub-Arctic suggest white geese nesting efforts were an almost complete bust.

The combination of persistent cold temperatures that delayed spring "green up" resulting in mass loss of goslings to starvation on some colonies. At other colonies, peak hatching of goslings coincided with a siege of cold, rainy weather than saw most hatchlings succumb to hypothermia. At some colonies, icy conditions hung on much longer than normal, preventing geese from nesting.

Researchers banding molting geese at one colony had a single gosling among the 1,400 geese they rounded up. At another colony where researchers documented 73 percent nesting success in 2014, snow-goose nesting success this year was 6 percent. [/QUOTE]
 

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Good thing the wife drew both her badlands Mulie buck and antelope tags this year. With only 2 pts for each...............haha j/k on the antelope and she had quite a few more than 2 pts for her Mulie but in all seriousness I guess this would be the year to miss eh?
 


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WOW did you head down to the Casino at least after the Antelope draw? Man that's some damn good luck no matter how many points this year. To bad we didn't have a bighorn season she probably would have been a shoe in!
 

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