biggest goose you have seen...honestly

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many hours in these
 
FLHTCUI said:
That photo is photoshopped.
Look how far back those guys are standng!
If they held it up and close to the body you would see just how Lrge it really is.
6foot wingspan is a pretty big goose.
I should head over to Stanley Park and get some.of those geese on a scale;)
Tight Groups,
Rob
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Guess you didn't get the sense of humor.

Off course its photo shopped I saw the OP mention another thread "the Big Foot" and found this pic on the internet just to cheer everybody up.

If I see bird this size flying over my decoys I sure be running for my life (lol).
 
1963beretta said:
interesting facts....
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Canadagoosesubspecies.html
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Thank you for posting this sub spices chart. Under the Giant Canada section it describes they may have a white band above the eye and beak. A couple years back I had a pair show up on the river in front of the house and the gander had this feature. I thought it was an anomaly. They had little ones and several also ended up with it. The whole family showed up back on the lawn/river this spring. More little ones resulted and we have more geese with white bands. At least now I know it wasn't an anomaly just the gander was a Giant Canada.
 
This is the largest of the subspecies. The Giant Canada was believed to be extinct but was rediscovered in the 1960's. Ganders can reach to the size of 23 pounds or more and both ###es may also have a full or partial white band above the bill and eyes. There is a small backward projecting hook on the white cheek patch.
 
mrgoat said:
Thank you for posting this sub spices chart. Under the Giant Canada section it describes they may have a white band above the eye and beak. A couple years back I had a pair show up on the river in front of the house and the gander had this feature. I thought it was an anomaly. They had little ones and several also ended up with it. The whole family showed up back on the lawn/river this spring. More little ones resulted and we have more geese with white bands. At least now I know it wasn't an anomaly just the gander was a Giant Canada.
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Where abouts in Ontario did you see them. The two I shot had white bands near the eye and beak. The second picture I posted somewhat shows the markings. I had never seen that before myself and also thought it was an anomaly. Since both geese were shot together, i figured they may have been siblings with the same markings. I didnt know that the markings are a giant goose attribute until I saw the sub species chart. The geese were shot in Orillia.
 
I have shot a lot of big geese... we call the hefty giant's "B-52's"... but I have never weighed a bird in my life (except gobblers), so I can't enter this fray...

But this is where I am sitting right now;

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Hoyt, you're a lucky man...I'll be hopefully sitting in a blind tomorrow.
There's definitely some jumbos in this thread but I still haven't seen anything that persuades me to believe there are Canada geese over fifteen pounds... They do seem to be the Bigfoot of the waterfowl world lots of claims but never any hard evidence. Gotta admit I don't believe for a second there's ever been a 23 pounder even if it is on the internet (the internet claims there's a hot lonely neighbor that wants to hook up but after much research I've found this to be a lie)
 
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