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goose season?

  • 07-10-2016 4:55pm
    #1
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭


    hi gents,is there a time of year that geese can be shot.or are the protected?


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  • #2
    Grizzly 45
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    On right now,depends on where you live in Ireland.IE down the slob lands in Wexford there are certain parts that are off limits,but it goes ASFIK to Mid Oct all over the 26.Way too mild yet for waterfowl .Need a Wintert storm to get them moving.

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  • #3
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭sniperman


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    On right now,depends on where you live in Ireland.IE down the slob lands in Wexford there are certain parts that are off limits,but it goes ASFIK to Mid Oct all over the 26.Way too mild yet for waterfowl .Need a Wintert storm to get them moving.

    thanks,its just a mate of mine seen some come to a field not far for lough derg near him,so he can shoot away then when they fly over him?he said they are greylags or greylegs, if im pronouncing it right.


  • #4
    Half-cocked
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    https://www.npws.ie/legislation/irish-law/open-seasons-order


  • #5
    Cass
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    We have a season guide pinned to the top of the forum. Post #3

    Things can change, but for the most part this is accurate enough each year.

    Deer
    • 1st September to 31st December. - Stags, Antlered Deer.
    • 1st November to 28th February. - Females, Antlerless deer.
    Hares
    • 26th September to 28th February
    Wildbird
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    • Mallard - 1st September to 31st January
    • Teal - 1st September to 31st January
    • Tufted Duck - 1st September to 31st January
    • Snipe - 1st September to 31st January
    • Jack Snipe - 1st September to 31st January
    • Golden Plover - 1st September to 31st January
    • Gadwall - 1st September to 31st January
    • Wigeon - 1st September to 31st January
    • Pintail - 1st September to 31st January
    • Shovellor - 1st September to 31st January
    • Scaup - 1st September to 31st January
    • Pochard - 1st September to 31st January
    • Goldeneye - 1st September to 31st January
    • Ruddy Duck - 1st September to 31st January
    • Red Legged Partridge - 1st November to 31st January
    • Cock Pheasant - 1st November to 31st January
    • Woodcock - 1st November to 31st January
    • Canadian Geese (Countrywide) - 1st September to 15th October
    • Canadian Geese (Cavan and Leitrim Only) Excluding Eonish Island, Rinn, Deramfield, and the River Shannon - 16th October to 31st January.
    • Greylag Geese - 1st Spetember to 15th October
    • Greylag Geese. (Lady's Island, Co. Wexford and Gearagh East & Gearagh West in Cork only) - 16th October to 31st January
    • Wood Pigeon - 1st November to 31st January
    Vermin (all year round)
    • Fox
    • Rabbit
    • Muntjac
    • Grey squirrel
    • Mink
    • Feral Goats
    Under Derogation (Otherwise Season runs 1st November to 31st January)
    • Grey Crows
    • Magpies
    • Pigeon
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  • #6
    daithi55
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    just make sue where they are landing isnt protected as a lot of places where geese like to stop off happenes to be protected areas.. there is a few near me..


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  • #7
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭sniperman


    daithi55 wrote: »
    just make sue where they are landing isnt protected as a lot of places where geese like to stop off happenes to be protected areas.. there is a few near me..

    thanks for that,he is not shooting at them where they are landing,they are coming to a cut corn field,and he is waiting till they rise and fly over his permission,seems they fly the same way each day,anyhow he got 2 yesterday,


  • #8
    daithi55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭daithi55


    lovely stuff i hope they taste better than the one i shot last year it was like chewing a boot


  • #9
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭sniperman


    daithi55 wrote: »
    lovely stuff i hope they taste better than the one i shot last year it was like chewing a boot

    ha ha maybe you did not cook it long enough,he rang me this mourning,said he got 2 more,he is giving me one,ill let you know how it tastes


  • #10
    Capercaillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    sniperman wrote: »
    thanks,its just a mate of mine seen some come to a field not far for lough derg near him,so he can shoot away then when they fly over him?he said they are greylags or greylegs, if im pronouncing it right.
    Better make sure he is able to identify them as Greylags and not endangered Greenland white fronted Geese or Pink footed geese.


  • #11
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭sniperman


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Better make sure he is able to identify them as Greylags and not endangered Greenland white fronted Geese or Pink footed geese.

    ya they are defo greylags,he is going after more today,getting in a great bit of shooting


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  • #12
    Crow Pigeon and Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭Crow Pigeon and Pheasant


    I'd love to go goose shooting sometime if I knew a place where they came to!


  • #13
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    sniperman wrote: »
    ya they are defo greylags,he is going after more today,getting in a great bit of shooting

    Tell ya mate t chill man. He's gotten four already. Is he trying t wipe em out altogether? Still plenty of time left in season. Shooting em all now and the season is over then. Spread it out dude


  • #14
    Vegeta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Tell ya mate t chill man. He's gotten four already. Is he trying t wipe em out altogether? Still plenty of time left in season. Shooting em all now and the season is over then. Spread it out dude

    That post was back in October when the season was still active, it's closed now in the majority of the country so there's no worries.


  • #15
    sniperman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭sniperman


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Tell ya mate t chill man. He's gotten four already. Is he trying t wipe em out altogether? Still plenty of time left in season. Shooting em all now and the season is over then. Spread it out dude

    trying to spread four between a family of ten is quite hard when everyone wanted one,he got seven before season ended,he said he will start again first opening day next year,and his aim is 20:eek:


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