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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trip McNeely" data-source="post: 67056" data-attributes="member: 728">some good points fish. I tend to agree with most of what you are saying, however the 2 things that might not allow that to work are; 1) a good number of landowners I know do in fact get pretty tired of getting hounded from august to january. weekends are one thing but a lot of guys hunt late season during the week and I know it gets tiresome for a good number of landowners getting asked daily. Especially during the holidays. 2) there are still a fair amount of opportunity for geese in oct in the Missouri river zone. I agree the birds can get stale but early oct you may still be catching some late molters and by mid-late oct small geese are beginning to arrive.Not to mention if we would get one of those once in while years and the specks stage in ND, itd be nice to not have worry about popping a lesser mixed in. Not the greatest of opportunitys I agree but if you close the MRZ down for 2 weeks it would send hunters into other areas increasing the pressure in the rest of the state, and Oct. from what I've seen the last couple years has plenty of pressure state-wide. Some hunters, like myself, like to find those small forgotten about pockets of local birds hidden in the hills to get away from the shit show in Oct. also in some years a portion of the MRZ can boast pretty sizable groups of lessers by mid October. One other thing that jumps out at me is the later the season runs the smaller the area to late season hunt gets. In years like this fall, the lake being open keeps birds around and feeding north of the lake as well as using different flight paths to get to feeds to the south. This opens up a larger area of hunting opportunity. Once the lake freezes and river freezes up from the south the area to hunt shrinks, as well as number of fields holding geese. I guess you would have to weigh the options of potentially limited opportunity later in the year if we had a normal fall VS. a warm fall with a lot of opportunity late into the season. VS. marginal opportunity earlier in the season that would help spread out pressure and put pressure on local geese. I could care less either way but by Jan 1st I m ready to be done hunting for the year.- - - Updated - - -I would think a few should be heading your way by the end of the weekend.</blockquote>

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