11-16-2015, 10:17 PM
Thursday:
The geese were back in the field we'd hunted the first day so Thrursday we decided to hit a field right next to it. We set up and the birds would circle and then decide they wanted to be 300 yards west of us even though there were no birds there. Having missed the "X", we dragged our layout blinds full of decoys to where they wanted to be. While we were walking, a flock of 300 snows kicked up and drifted over us. In the middle of the flock was a gorgeous eagle head blue goose that I couldn't resist! I stood up and stoned him dead at 55 yards! What a beautiful bird!
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It wasn't fast and furious, but small flocks trickled into us in the new spot and we scratched down another 15 canadas, mostly honkers. That night we were all tired of being together so we split up and I pass shot divers on a lake and enjoyed the 50,000 snows trading fields above me.
Friday:
We set up in a dirty cut corn field friday morning and watched all the geese fly 200 yards west of us to another field. We did our best despite a bad wind direction and knocked down a few honkers. One of our guys got bored and went scouting where he found a field of snows feeding a little to close to the edge of the road. A short stalk and three shots later, seven snows died including a ross goose!
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Friday night found us in another dirty cut corn field where the mallards wanted to be. It was stunning to see over 1,000 birds circling in the air above us with more coming off the lake in the distance...I can't explain what ducks 360 degrees around you is like except that it makes you
like a dumb kid for hours afterwards!
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Saturday:
We decided to split up again for our last hunt, one buddy and I went into a goose field while the other two went back to the duck field. Two hours later we finished our limit of tiny cackling geese in the most perfect example of what canada should be that I can think of! Shooting into flocks of 15 or less with their feet down right in the kill zone! Wow! doesn't get any better than this!
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We got back to the other guys and found they'd had some luck as well, shooting another 10 greenheads.
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The geese were back in the field we'd hunted the first day so Thrursday we decided to hit a field right next to it. We set up and the birds would circle and then decide they wanted to be 300 yards west of us even though there were no birds there. Having missed the "X", we dragged our layout blinds full of decoys to where they wanted to be. While we were walking, a flock of 300 snows kicked up and drifted over us. In the middle of the flock was a gorgeous eagle head blue goose that I couldn't resist! I stood up and stoned him dead at 55 yards! What a beautiful bird!
[inline "1112151101a (Medium).jpg"]
[inline "1112151103b (Medium).jpg"]
[inline "1112151103c (Medium).jpg"]
It wasn't fast and furious, but small flocks trickled into us in the new spot and we scratched down another 15 canadas, mostly honkers. That night we were all tired of being together so we split up and I pass shot divers on a lake and enjoyed the 50,000 snows trading fields above me.
Friday:
We set up in a dirty cut corn field friday morning and watched all the geese fly 200 yards west of us to another field. We did our best despite a bad wind direction and knocked down a few honkers. One of our guys got bored and went scouting where he found a field of snows feeding a little to close to the edge of the road. A short stalk and three shots later, seven snows died including a ross goose!
[inline 1113151137.jpg]
Friday night found us in another dirty cut corn field where the mallards wanted to be. It was stunning to see over 1,000 birds circling in the air above us with more coming off the lake in the distance...I can't explain what ducks 360 degrees around you is like except that it makes you
like a dumb kid for hours afterwards! [inline "1113151601 (Medium).jpg"]
[inline "20151113-MKII4667 (Medium).jpeg"]
[inline "20151113-MKII4574 (Medium).jpeg"]
[inline "20151113-MKII4511 (Medium).jpeg"]
Saturday:
We decided to split up again for our last hunt, one buddy and I went into a goose field while the other two went back to the duck field. Two hours later we finished our limit of tiny cackling geese in the most perfect example of what canada should be that I can think of! Shooting into flocks of 15 or less with their feet down right in the kill zone! Wow! doesn't get any better than this!
[inline "IMG_3460 (Medium).JPG"]
We got back to the other guys and found they'd had some luck as well, shooting another 10 greenheads.
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[inline IMG_3465.JPG]
[signature]