Post by blkduck on Nov 26, 2012 14:51:55 GMT -5
On Friday I took my wife on a goose hunt. She keeps saying that she wants to harvest a goose, but when the time comes she just thinks they are too pretty.
We arrive at the perfect time to see flocks of birds working the field ( obviously no one told the geese that they always fly late) After setting up we in short order had a flock in the dekes. She just couldn't do it and I was looking at 3 and 3 lined up perfectly for a quick limit. After 10 minutes and me commenting on the band one was sporting the spooked. After 4 or 5 maybe 8 more flocks did the same thing ( 1 More Band spotted) a flock circled and I took Xmas Dinner.
On the way home she asked why I didn't take more and I thought for the minute and responded." I got xmas dinner,and got to spend the morning goose hunting with my wife and had more than 100 geese land in the decoys and at least 2x that many work the decoys to within range. How could I have a better day? In the past I would have crawled through a mile no 2 miles of mud to my neck for a banded bird,and I would have harvested a truckload, but today was awesome!!!. I guess I have stopped measuring as successful hunt by weight of the game strap. If I can figure out the posting of pics, I will try to get them up as Sonya took some good footage of the birds as I was setting out the decoys.
We arrive at the perfect time to see flocks of birds working the field ( obviously no one told the geese that they always fly late) After setting up we in short order had a flock in the dekes. She just couldn't do it and I was looking at 3 and 3 lined up perfectly for a quick limit. After 10 minutes and me commenting on the band one was sporting the spooked. After 4 or 5 maybe 8 more flocks did the same thing ( 1 More Band spotted) a flock circled and I took Xmas Dinner.
On the way home she asked why I didn't take more and I thought for the minute and responded." I got xmas dinner,and got to spend the morning goose hunting with my wife and had more than 100 geese land in the decoys and at least 2x that many work the decoys to within range. How could I have a better day? In the past I would have crawled through a mile no 2 miles of mud to my neck for a banded bird,and I would have harvested a truckload, but today was awesome!!!. I guess I have stopped measuring as successful hunt by weight of the game strap. If I can figure out the posting of pics, I will try to get them up as Sonya took some good footage of the birds as I was setting out the decoys.
