Aerial hunting anyone?

[Chris Shelton]

Well my whitetail season is officially over, as of Jan 30th, so I have nothin but small game to hunt.  And I say nothing I should have said I have everything else to hunt.  So that means wabbits, squirrels, and probably my favorite/obsessive game animals to pursuit . . . waterfowl!  I cant/wont shoot them on the ground/water, I think it might be illegal, but havent actually seen a law anywhere that says you cant.  So just because I want to and to play it safe, I go aerial.  I train for it all spring and summer.  And am half decent.  I have been so, SOOOO close to nailin a couple geese.  And even got close to hitting some doves in september.  So I am wondering if anyone else out there is doing it to(and possibly with better success)!?

[beaver#1]

just foam target and flat basketballs for me so far.

[wildgame]

got some silver carp this summer with brakett! but want to try duck and goose!

[Earthdog]

Grey goose and pheasant.

Geese here are feral,so you can shoot them anytime,,I walk the swamps in May which is the beginning of their nesting season.
Most shots are less than 10 meters as they come up ,off their nest.
Pheasants have a set season and I'm not even sure if it's legal to hunt them with a bow,,probably not because bowhunting ducks sure ain't,,,and it's the same killjoy snobs that set the laws for both.
Anyway,pheasants are best shot going away,,,and on private land where rangers are not welcome.

[oxnam]

Waterfowl and upland are both a blast with a bow.  You might starve to death, but it is so much fun letting the arrows fly.  Got several pheasants this season, but my pointer deserves most of the credit.  Big game seasons are too short not to try to shooting birds.

[NDTerminator]

Up here in waterfowl heaven, my wife & I generally bump off a couple hundred geese & ducks every Fall. Never considered taking a bow as my labby-girls would never understand being left home.  Birds impaled on broahead tipped arrows & retrievers don't mix...

Take rooster hunting far too seriously to use anything but my Ruger Red Label...

[twitchstick]

Birds on the wing is quite fun. I'm in Tradbows delima my lab and broadheads don't mix. She is real good around bows and will go to the range every time with me. I did make a few attemps on ducks and geese this year but no luck. I have had alot of fun with grouse over the years and even get one now and agian.

[oxnam]

I have had decent success with the magnus bullhead.  Never had to worry about the my dogs with that head.  I have lost several birds that a regular broadheads would have killed, but I felt it was worth the tradeoff.  Those heads however, are not cheap.

I have never left my retrievers, I couldn't do it to them.  For waterfowl, if the retrievers are steady, I have used regular broadheads.  I almost always have the shotgun right next to me, the dogs need to have some fun too.  If the birds don't work close enough for the bow or I get an arrow off, up comes the shotgun.  

This last season I had a day where I was completely focused on using my bow for ducks.  I had it in my hands most of the hunt.  The birds however, were not cooperating at all.  If they didn't present an archery shot, I used my shotgun and had my limit before too late in the morning.  Turned out to be a great hunt, just not so much with the bow.

For the dogs sake, make sure you drop some birds, even if it is with a shotgun.

[Chris Shelton]

Cool guys, man do I ever want to hunt pheasants.  I am also in Waterfowl heaven down here, actually some say the bay is the best waterfowl hunting in the world.  There is definatly nowhere you can find our variaty.  I am nowhere near the bay however, but I still am in the waterfowl.  Especially geese.  We have a healthy native pop.  And the potomac comes up the entire state, and I am probably 10 miles from it and about a mile from one of the tributaries(that trib holds big carp too), so I dont know if it is the same group or not, but you can shoot at a group of geese and the next dad they will be back again!  In the years past we had a ton of ducks, too bad they would come right after the farmer would clear the feild, and usually that was about a week before the season, and they would be gone before it hit.  There would litterally be hundreds in one 9 acre corn feild!