I need info

[Doug]

Found it! The Crackling goose that is, looks like it may be tasty http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/goose-crackling/141071

... can't find nothing about Canadian Geese

[mojo stick]

The limits are fine as they are however if more birds need to be culled why not share the wealth and invite more guns to the party?

Dutch bringing back the memeries bud , we killed over 450 geese that week and didn't even put a dent in the population , didn't seem to educate any of the flocks either , considering they were landing in the spread with a truck and trailer parked in it as well ,
mans finsfurfeather I am select when inviting hunters out especially when I have found a x in the late season , have lost to many fields to so called hunting buddies on the forum , take them out once, give them a amazing shoot and before you know it they are in there stealing it out from under you , I take out a selected few folks that I trust and that's it ,
the need for more hunters isn't the issue either they need to raise the limit even more and let us smash some of these local city birds that don't migrate , most of these birds haven't ever been shot at haven't left the big city , the only way to thin the population is letting us put a hurting on them.
out group hunted day in and day out that week and we could have killed 300 a day easily , everyday we started around 9 am and we're done by noon . 6 to 8 man limits ,
raise the bag limit and let us take care of some of these birds

[Snowwalker]

Dutch bringing back the memeries bud , we killed over 450 geese that week and didn't even put a dent in the population........
........the need for more hunters isn't the issue either they need to raise the limit even more and let us smash some of these local city birds that don't migrate , most of these birds haven't ever been shot at haven't left the big city , the only way to thin the population is letting us put a hurting on them.
.........raise the bag limit and let us take care of some of these birds

Someone may suggest a spring hunt, but that would only thin out the the NON-city, migrating birds. The MNRF can't do anything to really help, because cities have control of their by-laws. To even allow an archery hunt, EVER city's by-laws across the province would have to rewritten.

[Doug]

Actually some very densely populated cities do allow hunting on parcels of 'agricultural land' of 50 acres of more. Much like getting any property to hunt, research and scouting is necessary... plus living closer to some of those areas would help as well. The iced over rivers and lakes, and the depth of snow cover around here for the late hunt usually means no geese.

[Snowwalker]

Actually some very densely populated cities do allow hunting on parcels of 'agricultural land' of 50 acres of more. Much like getting any property to hunt, research and scouting is necessary... plus living closer to some of those areas would help as well. The iced over rivers and lakes, and the depth of snow cover around here for the late hunt usually means no geese.

Yes London for example allows hunting on small parcels of land, but they are all on the outer edge of the city, with no open water to hold waterfowl. The highest density of geese are along the flowing rivers and creeks in town. With no open water and snow cover outside the city the geese don't leave the city's no hunting areas. Guess you could take to making high speed runs through the park on the Mountain bike...

[mojo stick]

We scored up land on the outskirts of the city, did a lot of research to make sure we weren't in city limits , and the birds we were shooting were resident lazy city birds , the government complains about the resident geese ruining parks and areas in the city but only allow us to kill 10 per day , what I was saying is where we were hunting we had thousands coming to the fields each day and could have killed big numbers and really put a small dent in the population but instead we were limited to our 10 birds each .

Thwy em want to thin the population out a bit they need to do something different because the limits and seasons aren't doing anything , population just keeps growing

[Doug]

We scored up land on the outskirts of the city, did a lot of research to make sure we weren't in city limits , and the birds we were shooting were resident lazy city birds ,

Goes to show that those willing to put in the legwork scouting and research can be rewarded... they have to fly out to eat at some point... if only we were closer.

The reason we have these geese in our parks and they reproduce so well is that we maintain our parks to their liking. My local park has gone from being a park where CWS would come to band birds to one that has no birds, absolutely zero... we took out the dam in the park, the river is flowing free, the birds are gone. The other option to control numbers is one we hunters do not like and that would be for the community to apply for a nuisance tag. The local golf course and some croppers have them, they can oil the eggs and at the golf course, kill (slaughter) 3 birds/day, I do not know what the farmer's tags permit; but I also don't necessarily believe that the permits are followed to the letter.

[mojo stick]

I was all for the permits years back , a farm I hunt got one and I helped him out , before the shoot I looked at the fine print and was not impressed with the rules that are set in place and decided it wasn't for me . I will stick to shooting them in the fall

[Snowwalker]

My local park has gone from being a park where CWS would come to band birds to one that has no birds, absolutely zero... we took out the dam in the park, the river is flowing free, the birds are gone.

They removed the springbank dam in London and it did not change a thing. Goose poop from one end of the city to the other. The flow is gentle, the geese like the river better then they liked the pond behind the dam.

[Doug]

I was all for the permits years back , a farm I hunt got one and I helped him out , before the shoot I looked at the fine print and was not impressed with the rules that are set in place and decided it wasn't for me . I will stick to shooting them in the fall

I'm with you, my buddy had called me all excited he told me that we could shoot the golf course... after a lot of back and forth I told him to go ahead, there is a difference between a hunter and a killer and I was not going to cross that line. To my knowledge he has chosen to not cross that line either.