Geese cripplers, stragglers and those not quite..dead

This has become an injured goose defense thread. I have some cheap steel shot with smaller shot size for finishing cripples if they try to swim away. Well, that's the plan anyway, its my first real goose hunt this year.
 
Neck break or follow up shot to the head is what I've always used.

I had a co-worker who is an avid hunter in my office today and he was telling a non-hunter how a goose wing can break your leg.

It's funny what people believe. I just smiled and gave him the "is that so" kinda look as he told this yarn.
 
Before I deliver the death blow I force the wounded to march back to the truck at gun point and if there not in to bad shape I strap one of their buddies on to their back. Then I get medieval.
 
My buddy wrings their necks like he is using a lassoo (sp.?)

I hold them by the neck and give a good head crack on the stock...

That is how I break in a new shotgun in the field (christen it, if you will)

One smack, the bird is done....I hate wringing them...
 
sealhunter said:
My buddy wrings their necks like he is using a lassoo (sp.?)

I hold them by the neck and give a good head crack on the stock...

That is how I break in a new shotgun in the field (christen it, if you will)

One smack, the bird is done....I hate wringing them...
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Hmm that might mar the stocks finish...I just painstainkenly put 6 coats of wax finish on my over under for the big goose hunt :p
 
sealhunter said:
My buddy wrings their necks like he is using a lassoo (sp.?)

I hold them by the neck and give a good head crack on the stock...

That is how I break in a new shotgun in the field (christen it, if you will)

One smack, the bird is done....I hate wringing them...
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Me too. Dunno why, but I don't like the floppy separated neck of wrung birds. As a person with a more than passing interest in taxidermy, I know that a wrung neck really screws a potential mount and all my birds are potential taxidermy specimens until I start cutting them for meat. Not wringing gives me a couple more hours to decide whether to have it mounted or not.
 
Breaking a goose neck can be made quite efficient if you only grab them very firmly by the head, then flip them in a couple of loops with a rotary motion of your wrists.
I am a turkey farmer, and was trained in this method by my mother at a very young age.

"Wringing" by gripping the body and head with two hands and twisting is hopelessly difficult and messy, and I won't do it. I have used my "grip and flip" method to cull many, many domestic turkeys and to finish hundreds of wild geese. It is quick, efficient and painless to both parties.

However, I do sometimes shoot geese in the head if I think there is a chance of them flying or putting up a fight.

In any case, use a method that kills quickly, efficiently and with minimal stress and pain for you and the goose!
 
Before I deliver the death blow I force the wounded to march back to the truck at gun point and if there not in to bad shape I strap one of their buddies on to their back. Then I get medieval.
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HAHAHA thank you for the laugh! :D

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
The buttstock of my 10/22 has a few scratches on it from putting down grouse I took on the ground.

One notable scratch is from a 6foot6 gorilla of a man, wearing a dress and a wig, who shot a grouse hung over during his bachelor's party and wanted it to stop twitching.

A good pair of shoes works as well. There were a few times I caught a ling cod and didn't have a club, so I took off a boot and the rest is history lol
 
If you grab the head and swing the body around in a circle it will do the trick, if you can walk up and grab them they usually dont have enough juice to wing beat you, I have done it numerous times.
 
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