I'd Never Seen This On A Goose Before.. | Dawn To Dusk Duck Hunt

On my third day in Idaho we setup in the middle of the bay with a big decoy spread with the hope of being able to decoy some of the more wary geese and ducks we'd encountered. The morning flight was slow but things picked up around lunch time and we had a trickle of mallard working our decoys throughout the afternoon. My shooting was lackluster at best but I was still able to put a few greenheads in the boat blind. Scott also shot a goose that had some netting stuck in it's mouth which I had never seen before while waterfowl hunting. We ended up hunting from dawn to dusk and while it was a long day I had a blast spending it with Scott and his pups. I hope you enjoy!
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[@featherspreaderinc3146]

Watching the pups when we see birds and when you whiff is my favorite part.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Lol their disappointment with my shooting was palpable

[@theconnoisseur5]

Awesome video! I hunt waterfowl with scott sometimes. Good friend and my falconry sponsor. He showed me this video.

[@tmr_outdoors]

Watched that 6 times over “woah I’ve never seen that before”, looking for some crazy colors, etc..feeling funny now…love buffyheads too !! Hope you get that Goldeneye!!

[@jonathanwallace6746]

I was expecting like a wing band or something crazy lol

[@HokeOutdoors]

Haha I wish it had been something like that but still thought the netting was pretty crazy. Still trying for the goldeneye!

[@rhcreative2024]

I love that blind so much, definitely going to need a tutorial on how to make that sliding top! Heck of a hunt fellas!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother! Whenever I get back out with Scott I’ll definitely have to do a full walkthrough of the blind

[@jackburkett8934]

Dude nice setup

[@HokeOutdoors]

Scott has a sweet rig for sure! Hopefully I can get one like it someday

[@140PatrolWaterfowl]

Sod netting from the grass in town bet, nice hunt Thomas 🤙🏼

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother! That’s what I’m thinking too

[@chucksmith5002]

Deprived the Eagle of a meal I had an Eagle pick up one of my Ringers before I could get to it. Enjoyed it Thomas

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Chuck! We felt a little bit bad taking away it's meal but had to get all the ducks we could this day with how poor my shooting was

[@cgrazglassworks]

love watching all your Idaho hunts man! That net in the honkers mouth was nutty to see, very excited to see more videos!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother! More coming soon hopefully

[@jeremymatlock2049]

The netting in the gooses mouth is sod grass netting ..they get that from pulling up the grass. We get that alot in California as 90% of our grass is planted feom sod farms

[@HokeOutdoors]

I appreciate the info! It definitely was sod netting now that I look back at it, I’m sure there was some over on the beach area they liked a lot

[@jeremymatlock2049]

@@HokeOutdoors i acutely have permission from a sod farm by my house ..its too easy lol

[@jamesedwards6269]

I was definitely where is he hunting because that is beautiful then heard Idaho. That is awesome.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks James! It's definitely a pretty recognizable area if you've visited it before

[@rudyelizondo1935]

Great hunt and bird action man, great blind boat your buddy has, gives me an idea too.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Rudy! Scott’s setup is definitely legit, I’d like to have a blind like that one day hopefully

[@adameagle2699]

Another great waterfowl video. This guy is so consistent.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Adam!

[@kraigkaatz6858]

Great video Thomas.. keep up the good work.. God Bless

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Kraig!

[@JonathanSimmons42]

Sky bustin everything lol

[@whackinstackin3149]

Sweet video Thomas!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks John!

[@timcb634]

Great video good luck on the upcoming month! Get more Honkers!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Tim! Going to try to for sure

[@hoatzen7887]

Mmmm that mr heater buddy grilled snappy skinned hotdog, dank

[@HokeOutdoors]

It was a pretty intuitive way to cook in the blind! The food turned out great too

[@shawnhulke7385]

Love the dogs.

[@mikefilms1727]

Great video!!! I have been seeing those dogs and was wondering what type of dogs they are. They sure are good birdhunters

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother! The pups are both wirehaired pointing griffons, awesome dogs for sure

[@stevenquick4315]

Best way to call any duck is a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee

[@HokeOutdoors]

Any sort of cooking is a pretty sure fire way to get them moving

[@pennyducatooutdoors4638]

I like the sliding roof on the boat blind

[@BottomGobblerChronicles]

Hey man, what call are you using? Sounds sweet.

[@ancellsadventures]

What a great trip! Looked like a great place to hunt. We need to get together and do a collaboration hunt before the season ends!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Brett! It was a blast all around. Let’s set something up for next month, I should be hunting around here a lot then

[@ancellsadventures]

@@HokeOutdoors sounds good man!

[@davidgrossman5104]

What breed dogs are those ?

[@The_fishingfool]

9:48 that looks like the netting that holds sod together. That goose has been eating some yards.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Yep that's what I'm thinking too

[@jerryjennings4504]

Great video

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Jerry!

[@tylerangel6101]

Do you know what kennel he got his griffs from?

[@featherspreaderinc3146]

The girls are out of clear valley griffons in Buhl Idaho.

[@lead5s]

i have got a couple canadas like that and caught one live that was like that. 2 of em had fishing line wrapped around there neck, one was skinny and starved, caught one live with a 6 pack holder around his neck and was starving, took it off and released him.

[@greenacrebirds]

Nice video my dude

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother!

[@brandonpearl1345]

What type of ammo do you shoot

[@HokeOutdoors]

Pretty much anything I can get my hands on right now but mainly Kent and Federal 3 inch #2s

[@BDCF100]

"Big Bufflehead" LOL

[@johnnywelder]

The plastic on the goose looks like the stuff they use for a roll out grass seed

[@HokeOutdoors]

Yep I believe it's sod netting after watching the video back

[@northeast_outdoors]

What shotgun are you shooting?

[@HokeOutdoors]

Franchi Affinity 3

[@nathanmeurett4310]

Crazy the birds even come near you sticking out like that

[@HokeOutdoors]

It’s definitely a different style of hide than most people are used to. If it works it works though..

[@Hatsan50]

Are they Spinone?

[@ecurbjones2698]

One day some years ago a buddy I was hunting with shot a Common Merganser drake , we don't normally shoot them and I asked why . He said "something looks funny about it" and went out to pick it up . Turned out it had the elastic waistband of some kids tighty whities wrapped around it's neck . Even had the kids name written on it with a Sharpie ....🤣

[@blairsegura7111]

Which type of gun do you have

[@peterborovac9601]

One that he can’t hit anything with.

[@toddphipps5496]

I'm not hating, guys...I realize y'all have to hunt in a little different type local, with different setups, but you'd lose your guns in Arkansas on this hunt. Lol.. If it Flys, it dies. Just giving you a hard time. Really. If you guys ever get down to Arkansas, let me know and we'll do some mallard blasting and speclebelly geese hunting. Thanks for sharing!

[@rabidcougar6465]

Here in S.E. Michigan, the non migratory geese number in the thousands in the suburbs and golf courses and ponds. They're so brazen, they're not even bothered by cars. They'll hold up traffic as a flock of the damn things slowly stroll across the roads..

[@HokeOutdoors]

Damn, sounds like they need to let y'all hunt some of the gold courses during the resident season up there

[@rabidcougar6465]

@@HokeOutdoors Their numbers are so widespread here in Michigan, there doesn't even have to be a legitimate season anymore. Just shoot the damn things if you can. What you suggest makes sense but the reality is that those courses are surrounded by housing. My solution would be machete' armed ninjas stalking the invasive flocks then chopping their heads off and donating the carcasses to food banks.......but that's just me. LOL! All joking aside, the geese here in S. Michigan, especially S.E. Michigan, are nothing but non-migratory winged rats.. The best alternative I can think of is to treat these damn non migratory winged rats as they are doing in Southern Florida with the growing population of iguanas. Down there the lizards are being hunted with PCP air rifles, with tremendous success if you watch the KZbin videos of such hunts. Open season on these geese with air rifles and those taken either for home consumption or donated to food banks would definitely start to control the growing populations........

[@jpmadiga]

What drone do you use?

[@HokeOutdoors]

It's a DJI Air 2s

[@jpmadiga]

Appreciate the reply. Good luck the rest of the season brother.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks brother, good luck to you too!

[@tylerjones8985]

From North Carolina if you’re ever looking an extra gun I got a decent wood duck hole also

[@HokeOutdoors]

Not sure if I'll make it down that way anymore this season but hopefully will be able to some again next year

[@outdoorswiththemillers4111]

We all miss shots! Glad it didn’t get to your head! Do you think it was because you were in a boat? Slightly rocking?

[@HokeOutdoors]

I think that was part of the reason for it, I was also just not swinging through the birds correctly this day and shooting behind them because of it

[@duckoutdoors2004]

What part of idaho

[@HokeOutdoors]

Northern ID

[@duckoutdoors2004]

@@HokeOutdoors but do u know the town or it’s ok if u don’t want to say

[@thereal_grim_reaper_9119]

I LIVE IN IDAHO!!!!!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Beautiful place!

[@huntershunters7185]

GR8

[@codycrettol0726]

Where were you guys at

[@HokeOutdoors]

Idaho

[@codycrettol0726]

@@HokeOutdoors I know I mean town

[@TienNguyen.95TV]

👏👏👏👏💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍

[@gamedinnah]

Do me a favor and never pull the trigger again unless you’re 100% sure you will hit it… DO YOU HEAR ME SOLDIER?!! I’m definitely joking. The numbskulls on here telling you you’re a bad shot etcetera are idiots but obviously they’re amazing shots that haven’t never wounded a duck. No one wants to wound something and not retrieve it but that’s how it goes sometimes. Honestly, we could probably all be better shots. Happy hunting bud.

[@nasserkuzbari2205]

Great Slo-Mo shooting vedios.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Thanks Nasser!

[@user-om6ub5ep6e]

Coming from Europe, and hunting quite a bit, I was quite suprised when u shot the ones that had landed. I mean… they didn’t stand a chance

[@HokeOutdoors]

We don’t hunt for sport, our goal is to bring home meat and have a fun time doing it. If a bird lands close to our decoys I see that as it giving up its chance

[@user-om6ub5ep6e]

@@HokeOutdoors fair enough. Any kind of sustainable hunting is better than comercial meet breeding in terrible conditions. Good on you. The video was good

[@jerrygriffin7629]

Its called shooting a bird then freezing the meat so you can throw it away next when it has freezer burn. These are the worst type of hunters

[@user-om6ub5ep6e]

@@jerrygriffin7629 ?

[@rieksstevens]

@@jerrygriffin7629 and wounding a bunch of them in the process

[@BDCF100]

Skyscraper!

[@whoisjohngalt4880]

Where I’m from if anyone saw you busting birds on the water they’d put you on the bottom of that lake….you scout water and shoot ‘em over food, not where they brood….literally the first thing you learn about waterfowl hunting.

[@featherspreaderinc3146]

Some people like me would rather ensure an easy kill then chasing a broken wing cripple. Plus, I hunt to eat. Zero sport. It's too expensive these days.

[@HokeOutdoors]

You do realize that birds don’t field feed in a large portion of the states right?

[@duckoutdoors2004]

I live their

[@braydenedwards10]

Yo I changed my KZbin name I used to be NC Outdoors. But that was crazy

[@HokeOutdoors]

Word, you been hunting anymore lately?

[@braydenedwards10]

@@HokeOutdoors yes sir I don’t have the best setup to video

[@mybad8805]

The dogs want to know if it would be possible not to be sent to retrieve live game.

[@HokeOutdoors]

That's the point of having a hunting retriever..

[@meclay4671]

That guy shooting a tristar super mag hunter o/u?

[@featherspreaderinc3146]

Yes. 30" version.

[@meclay4671]

@@featherspreaderinc3146 yesss sirrrr I used Carlson chokes out mine I retired her like 7 years ago bc she act funny with steel like only cheap Winchester shot good out her but far as an upland and turkey gun 💥🏅🔥 Prairie storm upland loads I shoot pheasant at 50 yards 🪨☠️

[@ojr6857]

It's challenging to sit all day unless you're on private comfortable places

[@brucepoole8552]

Come and listen to my story bout a man named Jed

[@scotthaberman5170]

Y do people shot hens on purpose???

[@HokeOutdoors]

Because hens taste the same as drakes

[@benphillips2342]

Not dispatching wildlife when shot combined with shooting on water non ethical hunters in my book

[@rico334]

Should have taken the plug out of that gun and you could have gotten more birds.... Game Warden wasn't around so nobody would have ever known..... I do it all the time.

[@HokeOutdoors]

I only do that when I’m on public land

[@randyrosa8036]

seen what before

[@HokeOutdoors]

Sod netting

[@MrHenry1530]

Hunted ducks for over 50 years never shot one on the water.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Would you like an award? Or is the holier than thou feeling enough to satisfy you?

[@Oldclimber1]

What a poor wingshot !!!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Everyone has their days where they struggle..

[@Oldclimber1]

@@HokeOutdoors Conceded, there was some degree of "struggle" there.

[@cristinastoots9033]

I’m 10 and I shoot like a beast Clay birds I broke my first Clay bird with my first shot out of a shotgun

[@loveearth7681]

More animals get away hurt than caught, cruel, only take shots that are sure.

[@crunchycowboy3206]

Not sure about other states, but if you shoot a non wounded duck/goose on the ground or water surface in my state, ducks, guns, boats, and all other equipment would be confiscated and you would pay a huge fine and might even be jailed.

[@HokeOutdoors]

What state would that be??

[@theconnoisseur5]

Not Idaho!

[@jackross2332]

Sky bust much???

[@mjuberian]

Water swats a goose and says "good shot" Ridiculous

[@HokeOutdoors]

Just getting some practice in for turkey season! How is that not a good shot though? Quick kill and no pellets in the breast

[@mjuberian]

@@HokeOutdoors Seriously? You are not really a hunter are you?

[@HokeOutdoors]

@@mjuberian I’ve yet to hear a single reason why water swatting is a bad practice

[@mjuberian]

@@HokeOutdoors It is just not sporting to do this, that the reason. If you seriously need the meat to survive then swat away must most guys refrain from this out of respect for the bird.

[@rickjones3886]

This guy really needs to practice more

[@billwhitman5705]

If I shot as badly as that I would pack up shooting.

[@HokeOutdoors]

Well I'm glad I'm not a quitter like you then

[@billwhitman5705]

@@HokeOutdoors 😊😊😊

[@Toure420]

It's extremely illegal to use drones for hunt scouting!!!

[@HokeOutdoors]

Where’d you get that info?

[@bavariasuhl]

whatever happen to its unethical to shoot a duck sitting on the water .. didnt learn that in hunter ed?

[@HokeOutdoors]

In our hunter ed we learned to take shots that were safe and killed the bird quickly.. water swats fit that pretty well. You must have lost sight of the point of waterfowl hunting if you truly believe they're unethical

[@jeffroberts760]

Why didn’t you kill the goose instead of letting it suffer? I’m not a hunter, but it seems rather inhumane.

[@thomasc5753]

Animals flop around even after they’re completely dead. Nerves and muscles do strange things when you cut off the brain. Happens in big game hunting and small game hunting. Some do it bad and some don’t do it at all. That was a dead goose.👍🏿

[@jeffroberts760]

@@thomasc5753 understood, thank you

[@tomcastle8578]

For a professional hunters you guys aren’t that good at shooting

[@dennisdawe2177]

Interesting about the goose. I've been a waterfall hunter for seventy years and real hunters don't shoot birds on the water. Shame shame shame

[@stevefowler6039]

Ya...we call that Arkansas them...I don't know why

[@lead5s]

i think you are lying if you say you never ground slid one, or 2. and if you truly never have then you have never been truly hungry for ducks, know what real cold is and never lived in a area where ducks are truly hard to come by

[@mitchbender7466]

Hunters bringing down other hunters. Shame shame shame

[@theconnoisseur5]

Precisely. To many, including myself, hunting is not a game. We shoot to kill, and kill to eat. And in Idaho it's legal to shoot a sitting duck. Don't let old foolish sayings stop you from feeding yourself or your family

[@jerrygriffin7629]

These people are just plain sick people shooting defenseless birds

[@sparky480ohio3]

you cant shoot /''wait till they land ;;not a waterfowl hunter / you the guy real hunters stay away from

[@HokeOutdoors]

Only real waterfowl hunters shoot birds on the water

[@johnminer1407]

Looks like they were shooting while birds were on the water. Not very sporting and not legal in Nebraska.

[@HokeOutdoors]

I hunt to bring meat home and have a fun time, the sport for me is decoying birds. If they swim in I don’t give them a pass. It is also legal to waterswat in every state

[@jerrygriffin7629]

@@HokeOutdoors In other words he is a sick individual that enjoys hurting animals instead being respectful in taking their life for food he won't eat