Heard about a ...

[FLHTCUI]

A 13 pound dressed Canada Goose.
Anyone have some intell?
MD, what do you know about this?
Rob

 

[Snider shooter]

One big quacker.

 

[homeboy1]

It must have been hitchhiking when shot, cause something that big would have had trouble flying.

 

[tharkhold]

13lbs?

Was it a swan disguised as a goose?

Number 4 shot and + would have bounced off that monster

 

[tacticaltc]

 

[keith mokry]

Must have been a lesser canada

 

[billdick]

My cousin shot a heavy one about ten years ago. It was 14 lbs 6 oz whole not dressed

 

[tigrr]

18 lbs 6oz was my biggest, whole. 6lbs was the lightest. Shot in Barkley Sound VI

 

[hoytcanon]

18-6... hmmmmm...

 

[coyoteking]

There was a hunting show a couple years ago that had a contest with a prize for a confirmed 16 lb goose. I believe the biggest entry was a 15 pounder.

I can’t find the info on this contest and my recollection of the numbers may be off, but I do remember they were surprised that out off the thousands of hunters participating they couldn’t break the barrier.

 

[MD]

A 13 pound dressed Canada Goose.
Anyone have some intell?
MD, what do you know about this?
Rob

Me?

What would I know?

 

[FLHTCUI]

Me?

What would I know?

Hmmm Best Goose Defence thread maybe?
The Brant are flying in the Bays and some are getting their two bird limit too.
Rob

 

[peterf]

I just read a story this morning in an old 1964 Shooting times magazine. The writer shot 2 geese that together weighed 25 lbs. He didn't mention individual weights.

 

[MD]

Hmmm Best Goose Defence thread maybe?
The Brant are flying in the Bays and some are getting their two bird limit too.
Rob

Try 3-inch BBs, but a buddy uses BBB

 

[Ardent]

We shoot 20 pounders all day on the BC coast, they feed on grizzly droppings dabbling in our 35 pounder steelhead hole.

 

[kamlooky]

As Mel Tourme would say, Sz st stttone ggggewses

 

[the spank]

There was a hunting show a couple years ago that had a contest with a prize for a confirmed 16 lb goose. I believe the biggest entry was a 15 pounder.

I can’t find the info on this contest and my recollection of the numbers may be off, but I do remember they were surprised that out off the thousands of hunters participating they couldn’t break the barrier.

Yes and it was also posted on the duck hunters refuge and sponsored by a decoy manufacturer who offered up two? dozen of their full bodies as a prize. After 2 years they never had a single entry so shut down the contest.

 

[Longwalker]

After a lifetime of shooting quite a few geese each fall, the biggest I have weighed is 14.5 lbs whole here in central Sask, but I believe southern MB has a slightly larger subspecies. "Dressed" means different things to different people. Field dressed ( guts out, nothing else removed), New York dressed ( plucked but nothing else removed), fully dressed ( ready for oven) giblets in or out, etc.

 

[BigUglyMan]

Golf course bird I'd wager. Or one of those Wascana Lake resident birds.

 

[1963beretta]

I shot a fatso goose this year. Had the white bands above the eye indicating that it was likely a Giant Canada strain.

Top bird was just over 10lbs and bottom bird at around 13lbs. The bigger bird was loaded with grain and also wet at the time I put it on the scale