>>1428628>roost shoot snowgeese in the springTotal recurring costs:
>state general (small game) hunting license: $7>Conservation Order permit: $5>Ammo: roughly $0.40 per shot>gas to get to and from the conservation area: Roughly $30 round trip at current pricesTotal non recurring costs:
>chest waders: $250>shotgun: $600 (I shoot a fairly nice semi-auto I traded for)>insulated camo coat: $80 (cheap storebrand coat)>game cleaning supplies: $6 (NSF listed no-name paring knife and a set of cheap pruning shears)You can do cheaper than this as well. I could get by with hip boots ($35) instead of waders but I have the waders for other things as well. You can also use cheaper waders, you damn sure don't need 1600g thinsulate insulated, 5mm neoprene extreme cold weather waders for snow geese. Often times I'm hunting in a hoodie because it's in the upper 50's to mid 60's during spring conservation order here, you really don't need the heavy coat. You don't need a dedicated game cleaning knife, the kitchen knives you already have would do just fine. You don't need a nice shotgun, one of my hunting buddies does as well as I do with his $150 chinkshit 870 clone.
My record with 3 shots is 49 dead geese. You're shooting into a mass of thousands of resting geese, usually at close range, you almost always kill multiples per shot. Seasonally I'll average 6 geese per shot, or 6.7 cents per goose in ammo. Assuming you just breast them out you get between 12-18oz of meat off each goose. There's no daily, season, or possession limit. I shoot between 350 and 500 snow geese a year, and could easily shoot more than that if I had the freezer space for it or people who wanted it.
Some hunting is more cost effective than others
