Had a great experience tonight…. I went over to visit with one of my farmer friends and she mentions to me that she had seen a hundred geese in the cut corn field yesterday late afternoon. So I decide to go home and get my gear, get back to the farm and setup. With the nice sunny warm weather (beautiful day) I figure the birds wouldn't arrive until sunset. With my setup all done (5 monster magnum decoys and about 10 normal size shells) just after 6pm it didn't take long before the first flock of 9 birds came straight in…. 3 shots and two geese down…. 10 minutes later is when it gets really interesting…..
A flock of mallards, maybe 40 birds start circling in and around the decoys, they come in wings open but at the last second veer off. I call they come back, same thing happens so we do this for the next 5 mins or so before I start to hear geese coming my way…. I see flock after flock coming toward me, they come in and try to land but the mallards circling over my decoys keep the geese just outside shooting range. This went on for 10 minutes, maybe 100 geese now and 40 mallards, circling trying to land, eventually some geese land but I don’t shoot them, keep waiting for the big flock to commit…. I was like a deer in the headlights, not knowing what to do with so many birds flying…. Eventually they left and I was caught holding my gun in my hand, big smile on my face for the experience but a little disappointed I didn't fire a single shot….
A few minutes go by and the honking sound is gone, all is quiet, then without any warning a dozen or so mallards return and I decide to take a shot as they fly pass and down one goes… Then it went dead for the night.....
So all in all, 4 shots taken and 3 birds down…..
Gotta love this time of year…
A flock of mallards, maybe 40 birds start circling in and around the decoys, they come in wings open but at the last second veer off. I call they come back, same thing happens so we do this for the next 5 mins or so before I start to hear geese coming my way…. I see flock after flock coming toward me, they come in and try to land but the mallards circling over my decoys keep the geese just outside shooting range. This went on for 10 minutes, maybe 100 geese now and 40 mallards, circling trying to land, eventually some geese land but I don’t shoot them, keep waiting for the big flock to commit…. I was like a deer in the headlights, not knowing what to do with so many birds flying…. Eventually they left and I was caught holding my gun in my hand, big smile on my face for the experience but a little disappointed I didn't fire a single shot….
A few minutes go by and the honking sound is gone, all is quiet, then without any warning a dozen or so mallards return and I decide to take a shot as they fly pass and down one goes… Then it went dead for the night.....
So all in all, 4 shots taken and 3 birds down…..
Gotta love this time of year…
