The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission suggests hunters drive back roads to locate fields where snow geese are feeding. Find the landowner to ask permission to hunt, then set out decoys. If this can be accomplished by mid-afternoon, you can hunt the field that evening and again the next morning.

Snow geese usually return to a field until the food there is exhausted. However, they have good memories and won't return to a place where they have been shot at.

Hide all signs of human activity, including tire tracks, candy wrappers and any other non-natural items.

Park vehicles at least a half mile away.

Set out a minimum of 500 decoys (1,000 to 1,500 is better).

Don't call too much. Calls are most useful for calling in single birds or isolated pairs.

Don't begin shooting while birds are still landing. For maximum shooting opportunity, wait until the birds already on the ground begin to get nervous and take flight.

Take your first shots at birds that are at the fringe of your effective range, then work your way back through closer birds.

A morning's shooting ends when the birds go back to roost in refuge areas during the middle of the day. Sometimes that is as early as 9 a.m. Other times they may not roost until noon. Afternoon feeding flights can arrive two hours before dark, but they may not appear until shooting hours are almost over.

234-inch or 3-inch shotgun shells with No. 1 or No. 2 steel shot work well for snow geese.

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