Fast and Furious Snow Goose Hunt Oct 6th 

No time to chat. I was busy digging up shells from my shell bag as fast as I could.

I shot a few close birds, and tried to take the head and neck shots only on those, and ended up missing a few, but I did nail one overhead and you can see the head drop off in front of the blind. I was going to edit that out, but I figured it was all part of it, so it stayed.

Not a guide. Just an old fart 60 yr old guy who has a passion for waterfowl. Not go-pro , use a Replay XD mini under my cap brim for down the barrel shots. It was a spectacular day. We all had good shooting and took turns .

Warren Hicks incredible hunt. Perfect title too. U might not be a guide, but u definitely gave favor to the other hunters.

Warren Hicks Thank you for your sharing, you and video are highly appreciated. Though I’m an older, haven’t had hunting for many years, your shows raised my passion.

I've never had birds come in that well, in wave after wave. I was giddy as a schoolgirl. It was fun to have them come in , but after awhile, I was content to watch the other guys shoot and pick out singles and take my time.

I have never had birds act like that ever before. We had flyers and reel wings behind us, and I know they were tuned into them. The action was literally non-stop for about an hour, and the 4 of us had 140+ down when did a count. It reminded me of jets lined up for landing at an airport. Bone bunch would come in, and more were right behind. A once in a lifetime hunt that we repeated 3 times in 2 weeks.

Totally from the absurdity of the spectacle. I've been hunting for 45 years, and have never had birds come in like this. It reminded me of a busy airport and having planes lined up to land one after another. We had 5 or 6 good hunts in a row, which is highly unusual, but I won't complain.

Replay XD mini

saaaaaaammmeeee

Y wait, want it now 😂

You will.

I broke my back in 3 places back in August and was in a back brace for 3 months. I hunted with the brace on in October for about 2 1/2 weeks until we got frozen out and the birds left, so i got in maybe half a dozen hunts this season. It was not an easy thing to do to try to get up in a layout with it on, or to swing on divers in the boat with it on, but I got a few.

I generally bring two boxes of shells, plus whatever loose shells are in my shell blind box Anything from BB to #3 shot for snows. In tight, normally #2 are just fine.

@@warrenhicks6120 I might get one, maybe 2 changes a day where I hunt. I'm not very good at calling, or setting decoys or hitting ducks when they mysteriously appear out of no where. Lol. But me and the Lab have a good time canoeing around the marsh.

It does remind of that hunt we had on Lester's field. Nice to hear from you Branden.

I love seeing old WFC members post on Warrens videos. Hope all is well Jon. -Big Honkers

@@jdubbink98 Good Vids by Warren!!

Fifty. Breasted them out last night and soaking in salt water. Will remove connective tissue and fat and take meat to butcher to make breakfast and garlic sausage. Add ham and pork fat to the lean meat and it really turns out well. Lots of work after you pull the trigger.

@@warrenhicks6120 wow, that's awesome. My wife cooks them two different ways and they taste good but I have to try your method, it sounds very delicious mixed with the pork meat.

I've been sick for a week and was running a fever. I was only wearing a t-shirt and light jacket in the blind in 6C temp and light rain. Sweat pouring off me and I was a little light headed and dizzy, so that is my excuse for my poor shooting. I did shoot the head off a Ross' goose close to the end of the video. Pretty tight patterns at 5 yds.

Ryan Muirhead Make jerky & snack sticks

I'm still not over a chest infection and was running a pretty good fever again yesterday. I at least can blame my mediocre shooting on something.

Warren Hicks Take care❤️

Warren buddy what's going on this year you haven't put out as many video's as you usually do . If it's work your fans demand that you quit so we can have new videos each day , with Great accuracy comes great responsibility lol . So next year am I getting the invite to come up and show you what I can do with my skeet 1 choke ? You can title the video how not to hit anything and how to be totally upstaged by the Great and powerful Warren Hicks LMAO. I could be your padawan learner Master Hicks , Learn how to lead them you must .

@@idahok9trapper470 Sorry for the late reply. The mallards just didn't show up here this year. Either they nested further south (most likely), or have moved west. We had great conditions, but no birds. If not for the snow goose hunts at the end of the season, it was really a bust for us this year.

Close to the end I shoot the head right off one of the birds. I missed on the first shot (trying for head) and got it perfect on the second shot. Most of the birds were shot under 30 yds, but isn't that the idea? SK1 choke is ideal for those distances.

It’s a big juvenile feed they are as dumb as they come! This is what snow goose hunting is all about! It’s way way harder to do this with an adult feed

It is a "REEL WINGS" decoy. Needs about 15 mph wind to stay up. Can run it off a fishing pole or even just a stake in the ground. From a distance, they honestly look like a goose drifting over the decoys. We found it worked quite well.

When I cheat on the swing is when I start missing birds. The targets are moving, the gun should be moving too. Good observation. I kind of forget how I do things they become so automatic.

Warren Hicks I call it “punch shooting” when I fail to swing. Not sure if that’s a real term, but that’s what it feels like and looks like on my Shotkam after a miss.

breasted them yesterday, cleaning up the meat today, into the butcher tomorrow.

My "group" of hunters average about 1 band every 700 birds or so. We seem to be off of the main banding flyways.

If it was spring, I would have shot a hundred that morning. I ended up with just under my 50 limit. That was enough.

Greg Plough 😂😂😆😆 Me, too!

Yes, only snow goose sounds in combination with any decoys, snows, canadas, ducks etc. Limits apply, 8 ducks, 8 dark geese, 50 snow geese. No possession limit on snow geese

That is quite the analogy. I believe our friends in the PPCLI would enjoy it. Take care.

We were actually fortunate to have 4 of these type of hunts this fall. Made of for the complete lack of ducks.

Using heavier than lead shot, ie ITX, HM 13 or HM 18 is really only needed for super long shots, like 60+ yds, and I am not skillful enough to shoot that far. Under 50 yds, steel and bismuth work just fine, as long as you pattern the birds. Watch it with large shot, ie BB, as the patterns can blow out with tighter choking . My SKI choke gives better 35 yd patterns with BB than my SKII , MOD, or IM chokes do.

Makes sense

Jamie bought breakfast. Fat Boy's breakfast special.

The birds came in literally the day after you left. Its too bad we couldn't have had you out on one of these. We ended up with two hunts in 3 days with 300+ birds. ps. I'm still cleaning. Sleet and snow forcast for tonight. They may leave.

@@warrenhicks6120 glad u got em,hope mallards r next. happy 4 u guys! wonder if big snows had a bad hatch?

@@darrenzabrosky6453 probably 90% juvies for us. Went to SW South Reader today. Saw 2 mallards............that was it.

@@warrenhicks6120 u boys still gunn'in? did any mallards finally show up?

Nearly all juvies, very easy to bring in. They had been using that field for 2 days with no hunting pressure prior to us going in.

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