I'll second wat Pixel Shooter said
I tried starting out like you are thinking of starting out
made and built my own rotary machines, built my own ecallers
built up a decoy spread of over 1500 decoys , leave at 10pm work all night setting up alone , day light comes not a bird in the sky PFFFT
pick everything up
drive by the next morning the field covered in snow geese
that afternoon set up 50 decoys limit out
, I'm lucky because here in Saskatchewan our limit is only 20 birds per day , sure glad i never had 50 to clean Like Pixel shooter gets
fall hunting snows is way better but the birds are tastier in the spring but dumber in the fall
setup for dark geese in in the dark, add 50 snows 4 yards behind you ,Saskatchewan you can only hunt dark geese until noon ) after you limit out set up a Cpl hundred more white decoys continues waiting and waiting and waiting eventually a few will come for a look see by late afternoon you got yer limit of both white darks and usually ducks , if you add cranes about 100 yards off you might even get yer limit of cranes as well
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If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time,
then the true meaning of the chase Eludes you all together
you only get a second
shoot where their
going not where they been,
