Category: Colorado

Posted By:
perro
Web Member

Grand Jct. 09-24-2007 15:23
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 50-60 Degrees
What a day to find out my water proof rain jacket isn’t. I saw teal and mallards. Passed on one flock right at shooting light because I couldn’t tell hens from drakes. Ended up getting soaked and quit before I really wanted to. Never fired a shot.

Posted By:
Jeff Colwell
Guest

Ft. Collins 09-23-2007 17:38
Cloudy, Winds Calm – –
Took out 2 youth hunters this morning saw one good bunch of geese,they decoyed awesome after the smoke cleared 3 geese on the ground 2 very happy youths and to put on the frosting 2 of three birds had jewelry on the legs and each harvested a band.The coolest thing of all was one was a first goose for the young man how cool is that!!Even without the band it would have made a impression,just adds another body to the list of monsters we become!!

Posted By:
Sloan
Guest

Rio Grande County 09-18-2007 19:29
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Guys, I am coming to Colorado to a friend’s ranch in Rio Grande County on October 15 to trout fish for a few days. My buddy is not much of a hunter, but I did some homework and found out that it is duck season while I am there. Now I am really fired up for some “cast and blast” on this trip. I also discovered that some of the upland birds are in season such as grouse, chukkar and ptarmigan. The problem is that when it comes to upland birds I don’t know what to expect since my buddy is a novice at wingshooting. Are any of you familiar with the area and can you give me some idea of what to expect this time of year? BY the way, the Rio Grande runs right through the middle of the property. Thanks!

Posted By:
BillyGoatPete
Web Member

E of Calhan 09-11-2007 19:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
First chance to get out for Teal was this morning……Lots of birds in the Ramah area…..also lots of skybusting going on…..for the umpteenth year in a row, heard lots of shooting well before legal shooting light.

On the plus side, wound up with 3 birds by 0900 (all blue wing) shoulda had a limit but some poor shooting on my part sent me home 1 short.

Beautiful morning, topped off by some excellent dog work….Can’t wait for the big duck opener!

Posted By:
shotgunwilly75
Guest

brush 09-10-2007 20:22
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
hunted for doves on saturday afternoon, got 11 birds in 2 hours, you just gotta find a good setup till there are more birds

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

Brush 09-09-2007 20:38
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went dove hunting and had a piss poor shoot. The doves are still around, but since there is an abundance of food the doves are scattered and not grouped up. And since there is an abundance of food there is no est. flight path. So maybe this cold front will bunch the birds up. who knows.

Posted By:
Jeff Colwell
Guest

Eastern Front range 09-09-2007 12:10
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Hunted the first two days of the teal opener,and had success both days although not hot and furious as in the past.Both days landed good numbers of big ducks and that always gets the juices flowing.Shot all bluewings as expected,and passed a shot because of mixed in shovelers yesterday. Even had a pair of pintails land this morning,with a drake that could be picked out that was cool.Watch out for the shoveloaders,good luck.BY THE WAY, I KNOW THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE BECAUSE I HEARD YOUR SHOOTING,POST UP FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!! ALSO HAVE THE DOVES VANISHED OR IS IT JUST ME AND THE SPOTS I’M LOOKIN???

[Edited By Jeff Colwell on 2007-09-09 12:32]

Posted By:
Matt-Sandersen
Field Editor

09-07-2007 21:36
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First chance to roast waterfowl is tomorrow guys! get out there and shoot em in the lips

Posted By:
salton sea man
Web Member

same club area this coming area??? 08-18-2007 15:24
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
travis, are you going to be hunting the same club next this coming season????….please advise….saltonsea man

Posted By:
VH
Guest

04-04-2007 13:33
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Towens,

Do you know of any lease opportuinties in the Brush area? Or any other areas fairly close to Brush?

Thanks,

VH

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

03-07-2007 21:03
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VH,
There are snows that sit in the Brush area year round. Weird I know but they don’t leave, but then again the roost never freezes. Now there is fluctuation in numbers throughout the season, but there always seems to be some hanging around. I usually see the most in November and February through March.
Travis

[Edited By Towens on 2007-03-07 21:04]

Posted By:
VH
Guest

03-06-2007 14:05
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Towens,

Do you see snows in Brush on a regular basis? If so what is the average flock size? Thanks,
VH

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

Brush 03-04-2007 19:04
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
For all you snow goose hunters out there I have a report. Left Thursday and hunted Friday with no luck. Only used a few dozen decoys, just didn’t have the drawing power of big spreads. On Thursday there were about 4 thousand snows and several migratory flocks came in from the south. On Saturday hunted with a few huntin’ buds and set out a massive spread with e-callers. There was an increase in snow numbers to about 8 to 10 thousand I’d say. The birds would not leave the roost for some reason, I think because of the high winds, but something got them up and pushed them our way. We had about 300+ birds lock up and come in but our shooting wasn’t great and we only dropped a few, then a flock of about 20 came in, and again poor shooting. Ended up shooting 7 and a fellow hunter got a band. If we would have been about 50 yards away from the spread we would have had the birds’ right over top, but I guess we know what to do next time. I heard a report from the Julesburg area and the birds are starting to show up but not in big numbers just yet, another week or so and the birds should be back on schedule.
Travis

[Edited By Towens on 2007-03-04 19:04]

Posted By:
Matt-Sandersen
Field Editor

West of longmont 02-19-2007 18:54
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
Have not been able to hunt much the last month because of school but I decided to get out this weekend and ended up getting 12 geese between two of us Saturday hunted a field covered in snow and managed to call in two singles and they died, that afternoon changed tactics anset up on a frozen pond. The geese loved it landed four flocks and when they do that its not hard to fill a limit so we took turns shooting, Sunday went out with the same idea in mind but had another guy set up on the same property and the prop is just too small for that had geese work but some people dont beleive in shootin them with the feet down so I resorted to shooting them at about 50 yards and dumped two that afternoon the wind picked up and nothing flew bad way to end a sub par goose season. On a good note we had our best duck season ever group of four ended up with well over 800 so i cant complain.

Posted By:
mlanders
Guest

Morgan County 02-18-2007 23:52
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Ended the season with a bang. Headed out Thurs. afternoon, got to the field(wheat) in time to see my buddy that was already in the pit whack two out of a bunch. The geese had just started to fly and me and my other friend ran out to the pit in time for another nice flock, they came right in and we killed 6 between the three of us. Waited about ten minutes for a single to come in and fill the limit. It was almost too quick and easy.

Friday went back to the same wheat field and the wind was ripping. Managed to get the only four geese that came in before the wind got too bad. Decoys were tumbling and the birds were holding tight.

Saturday I took 4 guys out and had a long slow day but managed 6 geese with several opportunities. Saw a LOT more geese. Several migrating flocks coming back into the area from all directions. Even saw some high flying snows and thousands of mallards were working a corn field to the east of us. Geese went to wheat fields in the a.m. and corn in the p.m. One of the few times this year there was a morning and afternoon push. Had a couple thousand geese in the field next to us and it was hard to compete with that.

Sunday went back to the wheat field near the river with a full pit of 6. We got our 18 shortly after noon. Shot smaller bunches (<20 birds). Birds started off a little weary and wouldn't finish all the way. We got the last- day-of-the-season itch so we started taking shots at any birds within 45 yards. Mid-day the birds finished real nice and even had some trying to land on us while we were taking pictures with the truck and trailer in the field! Saw even more geese today than in the past few weeks. Again, migrators showing up, a couple flocks of snows, and mallards everywhere. Saw several(5-10) thousand geese. They were scattered and flying in no particular pattern. All in all this year was really goofy with all the snow and cold. We got lucky with the fields we had and consistently got into them. If some snows start using the area we might give it a shot. Other than that, till next fall. Posted By: PUDLJMPR Guest Wellington 02-18-2007 12:27 Sunny & Clear, High Winds - - Get set up yesterday morning and have some good wind and high expectations, saw 30 geese from sunrise til 1:30. When they started they flew all afternoon but not many came our way and the ones that did were not interested managed 1 honk all day pretty disappointing. mite try sun afternoon but not real motivated. Posted By: PUDLJMPR Guest Wellington 02-15-2007 19:36 Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation - - Back at if again, buddies made it down about 9, rite off the bat they had 3 come rite in they pop up and only dump 1 between the 2 of them! Oh well it happens. I show up at noon and they tell me the 3 are the only birds seen so far, about 2 the birds start movin, we peel a single off and he comes to us we take em and crap he is in the sun, he got hit but did the gliding off jazz and we never found him. Birds kept comin for the rest of the afternoon but in big big flocks, peel another single out of about 200 he comes rite in but we are greedy and dont shoot and he leaves but turns around and comes rite back and lands and brought his buddy with him we kill both and that was it for the day. Get out and try everyone still birds here. Posted By: yogibear Guest 02-14-2007 20:13 - - - Heading to Sterling area tommorrow to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with family - sounds like it could be reeeeal good. Snows and darks down that way as we speak. Posted By: PUDLJMPR Guest Wellington 02-14-2007 15:01 Cloudy, Snow Flurries - - Buddies went down yesterday morning and set up and i joined them about 2, tried a smaller spread today and didnt really work, they said geese didnt start movin til around 1130. I get there and 5 min later a single comes in and i kill it so needless to say they were not to impressed with that. Still alot of geese around and they are hittin a few differnt fields so i think with the weather there still could be some good shoots to be had, good luck we'll try to hit it every day til the end. Posted By: Towens Guest 02-12-2007 18:53 - - - Selling a few decoys (note:) must pick up decoys if bought Bigfoot 20 FB feeder style decoys all decoys are 4 years old; a dozen of which got custom painted last year. Decoys are in good shape, there are the few scuffs and scratches but nothing serious. Price: $395 for 20 foots Green Head Gear 4 1/2 dozen feeders 1/2 dozen active all decoys are full body hunter style and have flocked heads and tails. all decoys are two years old or less. Very few scratches. Price: $1050 for all or $210 a dozen Contact info: Home:303-730-1380 ask for Travis Email: Paintbaljunky68@aol.com or private message me

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

Morgan County, Brush 02-11-2007 20:12
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Left for the field friday after school and did a little pass shooting with my father. That evening we took 2 specs and a nice honker. Saturday morning came around and it was foggy, but it helped us in the long run. set up 3 dozen HC’s and waited. Saw and heard tons of birds. Had about 10 snows sneek in at about 35 yards and didn’t get a shot off, however we managed to limit by 10:30 with a bonus snow. Hunted sunday and it was pretty slow, saw tons of birds but just couldn’t get any to finish. Shot 4 canadas and called it quits. Saw one of our fields full of geese, so that’s where i will be next weekend. There are ten’s of thousands of geese in the brush area. Good Hunting. Travis

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

02-11-2007 14:28
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My buddies and I are intrested in gettin in on a 1 or 2 day decoying snow goose hunt if anyone has any info, Thanks

Posted By:
glaubsgoose
Guest

02-11-2007 00:47
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On that 10 ga. H&S it has a 34 1/2 inch long barrel.

Posted By:
glaubsgoose
Guest

02-11-2007 00:43
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If anyone might be looking for an extra 10 ga. single shot gun I have one for sale. It is an H&R model 176. Has a full choke taken to a mod choke. no rust in good shape just don’t need any more. Asking $150

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

wellington 02-09-2007 15:38
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – –
Left Chey town and it was 38 and clear get to the pit and its 20 and heavy fog, get all set up and didnt even hear a goose until 10, about 1045 had a group of 20 come from the south the lead 2 birds plop rite in and the others were alittle higher and further back so we decide to take em and kill the first to, probably should have waited but im alittle jumpy oh well got 2 and picked up at noon. Didnt see many birds today but it was foggy and not many came from Rawhide that we saw so i hope there still here, try it again tomarrow.

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 02-08-2007 16:19
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Decided to set up in the layouts away from the pit for a quick afternoon hunt, set up 6 dzn and im ready.
About 3 birds start movin and all the geese from rawhide knew exactly where they were goin but had 7 come out of the south and come rite in i jump up and CLICK!!! gun didnt go off!!! That was it for the afternoon but the last few days i have noticed high migratin canadas goin back north so hopefully some stick it out til the end of season.

Posted By:
CAMOKING
Guest

FOUNTAIN CO 02-08-2007 09:48
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Believe it or not.
I took my son goose hunting for the first time Monday the 5th. Decoys set and first flock of geese approach. They start to land and we come up blasting. Thought we had missed everthing butt about 300 yards away a lone goose starts to drop. I said Zach I think you killed your first goose. Zach said to me I think it fell over by my truck, ok will pick it up when were done. After the hunt Zach went to get his truck to pick up the decoys. As we gathered up the decoys we noticed blood on the wind sheild of the truck.I told my son I thought that goose feel over by your truck. When Zach opened up the tailgate on his truck to his surprise the goose had crashed into the bed of his truck. I told Zach to bad Elk doin’t do that.
Good Hunting Camoking.

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

Morgan County, Brush 01-28-2007 22:47
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Below Zero
Hunted a hay field today with my father and had a “decent” shoot. We knew the birds wouldn’t fly until late so we slept in. When we got to the field it was cold, real cold. Before setting up the decoys we jumped some warm water sloughs and had some luck, more so for me. I shot a banded drake mallard, what a way to end the season. My father shot a widgeon, and two mallards. So on to the goose hunt. Set up a spread of 3 dozen with good response from the birds. Only bad thing was my Benelli wasn’t cycling out the shells, so I was shooting a single shot Benelli. I was pissed, had two groups work right in and only dropped one. My father shot, but when he shoots at incoming geese it’s like he has never shot a gun before. Went to lunch and came back to about ten in the decoys, no way to get them, so that was that and we ended the day with two geese. Saw thousands of geese in the area, I guess it just depends on where you are.

Posted By:
mlanders
Guest

Morgan County 01-28-2007 21:25
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Below Zero
Took 4 guys out to a wheat field today. Well, there might be some wheat under all the snow, for now its just one huge snow drift. Turned out to be a long cold day(-13 when we set up and never got above single digits). Shot the first goose we saw at about 10 am and things were looking good. Didn’t see more than a 100 birds until 3 o’clock and were able to stop some on their way to the river. Wind shifted and they came in kind of funny but managed 8 more. Only one greater and the rest bigger lessers. Should have had more but thats the way it goes. Id say there is less than a thousand birds in the area, still roosted on the river and feeding in some fields in no mans land. Sounds like some might have headed west, we got about a foot of snow last weekend and it isn’t melting anytime soon.

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-27-2007 17:05
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Set the monster spread out fri and ready to rumble, for the last few weeks birds havent been movin until later like 9:30 or 10 but fri the first ones started at 6:45 and didnt stop all day. Hunted all day with no shots fired had a few birds work and had some 20 feet above the pit but thought they were gonna finish but not go. Today killed one single rite off the bat about 7 and only stuck it out til noon there is alot of geese around and i think some new ones moved in in the last few days but everything is extremly patterned and know what and where they want and it really hard to compete with 10,000 real geese not far from the pit.

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-26-2007 00:29
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – –
Millions of geese comin off Rawhide but they all had one idea in mind and it didnt include us, gonna hit it with the big spread of 25DZN this weekend and see what happens plenty of birds around thats for sure.

Posted By:
perro
Web Member

Colorado river 01-21-2007 13:12
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted yesterday afternoon. Got to my spot a little late. I was able to take a couple of greenheads that ventured a little too close to the goose deks. The colorado is frozen up from Cameo to Debeque canyon and beyond. From there to Rifle it is shelfed up and hard to hunt.

There are a lot of geese around the GJ area and I had close to a thousand fly over me on their way to roost but too high to shoot.

One more weekend to go.

Posted By:
aurorafowler
Guest

South Platte – East of Fort Morgan 01-20-2007 21:11
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 0-10 Degrees – Open Water
The river isn’t frozen and there are a good number of ducks and geese using the river. Lots of Mallards, Widgeon and Pintails! Be careful and know what species of duck you are shooting at. We actually had a group of 12 Pintails land in our decoy spread today. Good Luck to everyone.

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-19-2007 19:41
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – –
Headed down with a full pit and high hopes, got all set up and waited, 9 i look out of the hole and think i see a black garbage sack, take another look and its a honk that snuck in and was laying down eating so i calmly grab my gun open the lid and crap! there are 4 not one, i kill 2 and everyone else scrambles for there guns and we luck out and kill all 4! Other than that nothin else interested but did see tons of birds all day.

[Edited By PUDLJMPR on 2007-01-19 19:42]

[Edited By PUDLJMPR on 2007-01-19 19:42]

Posted By:
Towens
Guest

01-19-2007 19:34
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Went out with a buddy after school today and had a great shoot. We went out just for ducks but ended up with a big goose and two mixed bag limits of golden eyes, mallards, red heads, and ring bills, all of which were drakes. When we got to out pond we had to break up the ice but once that was done the birds just came right in.

Posted By:
aurorafowler
Guest

South Platte – Orchard and to the East 01-19-2007 15:03
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I saw another post with some pictures posted from Tuesday out at Atwood SWA and the whole river was frozen. Does anyone know if the Platte is still frozen?

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-18-2007 18:22
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Well i think we recieved new birds with this cold spell, the boys hunted the field 2 afternoons this week and left with 22 birds pretty good, im loadin the pit full of guys and headed down for tomarrow hopefully it works out.

[Edited By PUDLJMPR on 2007-01-18 18:23]

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-14-2007 16:25
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – Below Zero
Got to our pit yesterday morning got set up and waited and waited and nada, picked up at noon and only saw 20 geese all morning off in the distance so they must be sittin tite waitin the cold out.

Posted By:
PUDLJMPR
Guest

Wellington 01-12-2007 23:27
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – Below Zero
Cold as hell this morning, -9 when we got to the pit, huntin up by Rawhide power plant and had high hopes. Nothin movin early as expected but absolutly no birds left the lake at all, but had TONS of birds comin up out of the south back on the lake, killed 5 total had a flock of 3 and 2 singles and thats it. Should be good huntin in the morning with all the geese that came back on and i think we saw some new ones from the north so there mite be some freash meat around. Shoot em up!!!

Posted By:
perro
Web Member

Colorado river east of Grand Jct. 01-12-2007 22:16
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 35-40 Degrees
I haven’t had too much to report the last couple of weekends.

Today I did an afternoon hunt down by grand jct. Nothing flying until 4 pm then there was a good number of geese. I saw a couple hundred or more leave a roosting area and head down river.

I had only one flock come in to my deks but that was all I needed. I shot my limit out of that one flock and also picked up my first banded bird in 30+ yrs of waterfowl hunting.