Can expecting bag limits set waterfowlers up for disappointment?

  • AREN'T THEY ALL GOOD?--Hunters who are disappointed if they don't attain the bag limit on ducks or geese on every single hunt may be missing the whole point of the bag limit. Bag limits are often misunderstood by hunters as the “goal” of the hunt when in fact they are biologically driven management tools. Every day spent hunting ducks or geese should be counted a good day.
    AREN'T THEY ALL GOOD?--Hunters who are disappointed if they don't attain the bag limit on ducks or geese on every single hunt may be missing the whole point of the bag limit. Bag limits are often misunderstood by hunters as the “goal” of the hunt when in fact they are biologically driven management tools. Every day spent hunting ducks or geese should be counted a good day.

    A question was posed recently in Ducks Unlimited magazine concerning the so-called “perfect limit” and whether waterfowl hunters are driven by bag limits.

    In my growing up days, bagging a single goose was considered an incredible accomplishment. In the early salad days of local goose hunting, the limit was only two Canadas, and later a five-bird limit on snow geese came into play. It was a record b…