btomlin

Looks like it's going to be another year of a lot of chiseled fields and this was a major problem for us last year. Dang tuff to hide in a worked field....and the birds seem to like them over non-worked fields.

Do most of you put your blinds at the head of your spread or off to the side so as the birds are approaching they are looking at "geese" vs "geese" next to raised blobs???

Do you like to always have dekes around your blinds or do you like to set just outside your spread, so you are not "in the picture"???

Looking for some insight to increase the learning curve going into year #2.

J. Abbas

Chiseled fields are actually the easiest to hide in if you are talking Corn, 95% of what Hunt is CHiseled. Keep blinds to the back half and use the field layout to get just on the back side of knobs, with experience you will find chiseled is the ticket.

Bassonjigs

Actually Chiseled fields make it easier to dig out pits to put the blinds into. Dropping the blinds just 6 inches make a big difference. Just be sure to fill the holes back up when you leave! If you are worried about the blinds being the wrong color, spray paint them with Ultra Flat Black and Ultra Flat Brown to help them blend in. And a little bit of mud can go a long way.

J. Abbas

Until it freezes, but you are correct, it's another helping hand. Chisel offers the confusion of shades, and colors. It is a little rough on the trailers

GooseHunter131

I agree the same, and the same with what J Abbas said. If you can dedicate a blind to hunt a plowed field, great. I would mud it like crazy and then stick in a few stalks and you should hide quite well. Take a shovel and just flatten out the ruts from the chisel and you have a nice flat spot for your blind. Yes, very rough on the trailer and tough walking in that stuff, but the geese seem to like it. Good Luck, Huff

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btomlin

Thanks for the imput.

Do you try to utilize your decoys to assist in breaking up the blinds by packing them in tight around the blinds? Or do you sometimes set your blinds off maybe 10yrds away from the dekes and say 20yrds from kill hole??

My waterfowling for most part has consisted of hunting small holes were we set dekes in the zone we did not want the duck to land leaving hole in front of us.

Now trying to learn to decoy geese in a 200ac field, it is impossible to follow the same philosophy without owning a decoy manufacturing company.

J. Abbas

My decoy set is based on what the actual birds are doing in the field, never just to hide blinds, if they eat loose we stay loose if their tight then it helps hide the blinds. It does at times take more dekes in a chisel, 200 acres has got some size

Condn

I think any time the geese can look through the decoys without seeing anything out-of-place it's a good thing. This year we've mostly hid back or off to one side with the decoys out in front of us and it's worked pretty well most days. I wouldn't want to be 20 yards out if I didn't have to though. I want the geese inside 20.

zman

What is it about chiseled fields that the birds like so much one would think that it would be easier to find food in an unworked field?

J. Abbas

They don't have to dig thru the garbage, the grain is usually out on top, easy pickens.

IAtaxidermist

Abbas where do you hide Murder and his manikin?

J. Abbas

You mean Phil? He's usually at the local cafe sexually herassing old ladies,, he just comes for the hero shot

Matt

This Phil you speak of must be a smart man!