Why are the geese spooking?

[EIRIKR]

They break, start to come in to land, and at last minute for seemingly nothing they flare and leave. Is my tent too close? I don't understand... Used to hunt them a bunch what has changed or what have I forgotten???

[EIRIKR]

Does seem the tent was too close I guess, after moving it they will finish landing. 20 ga. seems to be quite weak against them though.

[EIRIKR]

That's funny you say that I just realized this the other day and took out every duck in a group. They were about 165 yds and it became apparent that hitting one and waiting (easily timed by just reloading mag every shot) you could shoot again and they will only spook when two shots hit in quick succession.

As far as tent distance, ya ducks work well to just travel or spawn to tent that is right on the water in front of them as they'll be floating there already and you can just blast away but calling in the geese they won't land unless the tent is far enough away I've found.

[Nightwalker]

The tent is not a blind. Tents do not conceal you one little bit. The act of fast traveling to or from any location generates quite a bit of noise. Enough to spook animals at a considerable distance. Setting up a tent generates about the same amount of noise as fast traveling to one does once it's been set up. An unoccupied tent will not spook animals.

[Nightwalker]

Just look at your vis indicator on the HUD. You get the same amount of vis if you squat on the ground outside of the tent as you do inside one.

[Striker]

Depends upon what your visibility is when you enter or leave a tent (not fast traveling to or from it) and the noise your footfalls make.

[BONITE]

Originally posted by EIRIKR:

They break, start to come in to land, and at last minute for seemingly nothing they flare and leave. Is my tent too close? I don't understand... Used to hunt them a bunch what has changed or what have I forgotten???

I have the same problem with geese, even after moving the tent away they don't want to land.
I tried everything and until the last update I didn't know about this problem.
I'm so disappointed that I finally dismantled my decoys and gave up goose hunting. Let's hope the Devs react to this problem because the goose DLC was paying off.

[EIRIKR]

I had setup a tent probably 50 yards from my decoys and little sleeping bag blind thing, sat in the blind for ten minutes calling until a flock came in, they broke pattern, circled, and just almost landed but decided not to at the last minute and flew away. Whole time I just sat there not moving. All I could think was to move tent another 100 yards away, repeated process, and now they actually touch down and stroll around before being slain and giving up the cash and xp lol. Just try putting your tent even further and see if it works for you too!

[Geronimo]

A flock of geese require a specific amount of free landing area with the zone they are trying to land in. And that is not based on what your eyes think they have for landing space. It's based upon the actual size of the need zone, and how much of it you have used up with your set.

Some need zones ate very small, especially on beaches, and if your decoy spread and blind are too spread out, the flock will not land, unless every single goose can find a spot. If even one goose cannot land, the whole flock just goes elsewhere.

Just because you have placed some decoys and there looks like there's lots of space, you have to actually know where the zone boundary is.

Try using a decoy when setting up as a guide to expose the borders of that zone, you wont be able to place outside of it. Than you can begin judging how much more room a flock will need to land in it.

[EIRIKR]

Excellent Geronimo thank you!

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by EIRIKR:

Excellent Geronimo thank you!

Np good huntin