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Midwest Flyways Podcast

Snow Goose Tips w/ Jake Wightman

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

2.4819 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jake Wightman has been chasing snows long enough to know their tricky little games. Joey and Paul Heigel sit down with Jake Wightman to talk about his tips and tricks for being successful chasing snow. And we say chasing because that’s what you’ll be doing. These birds are hard to pattern and harder to kill. If you’re headed out on a snow goose hunt check this one out! New Waterfowl Film out now! 143 Birds in Canada! Heirloom Goods for generations to come: RW Coolidge Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite Real American Light Beer: Outlaw Beer Better Merch: /SHOP

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0:00.0

Hi guys. I just want to bring you on this 10 minute Tuesday here. I got snowgoose kings.com.

0:06.4

They kill a lot of snow geese. I don't. But I feel like they can teach you a little bit more on how to kill snow geese for yourself when you go in DIY.

0:14.2

And so what we're going to do here today is we're each going to give you a tip on how to kill snow geese better than you already are let's start with you jake what's one thing

0:23.3

you see a lot of people doing or you teach a lot of people and like no you got to do it this way it's no

0:28.4

secret just go chase jubis just go chase jubis that's it go chase jubes that's it go get them

0:35.1

absolutely not screw the front birds when you see thousands can't kill

0:40.0

just wait can't kill geese unless they're juvies we're migrator hunting um so i guess maybe

0:48.6

we'll touch on a migrator spread i mean 1500 decoys is a lot of decoys don't get me wrong

0:53.9

but it's not that crazy i mean i've set up to a migrator spread. I mean, 1,500 decoys is a lot of decoys. Don't get me wrong.

0:57.0

But it's not that crazy.

1:00.5

I mean, I've set up to 9,000, 10,000 decoys, you know.

1:02.5

Yikes.

1:07.2

Yeah, it's, I mean, I've hunted over some of the biggest full body spreads in the country.

1:09.0

I mean, 15,000 full bodies and stuff. And it, it makes a difference for sure.

1:11.7

Hmm. But, like here in the Dakotas, we'll take, for instance, we'll just kind of talk about South Dakota.

1:17.5

Oh, God. We'll kind tail on it and stuff like that.

1:28.5

You're hunting in the high wind.

1:29.6

Well, I'd have a lot of geese.

1:31.6

You'd break a lot of geese, work a lot of geese.

1:33.8

But in that higher wind or whatever, the geese won't make it up to spread.

1:39.0

You know, they'll get low and look great and all that, but they won't make it all up to spread to you.

1:42.5

You can't kill them. I mean, my spread, the one year we had, whatever it was, 7,000, 8, 9,000 decoys.

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