Heavy Geese

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On a thread here posted by another member, I threw a pic of two geese. One was 15 lbs the other 15.2 lbs. A while later I was sent a PM about a competition that I had never heard of.

For the first person to show this guy or company a 15 lb goose he will give $800 in decoys. On the site that I found it, a lot of guys there were making fun of the thought that there are geese over 15 lbs.

I used my bathroom scale (digital) out in the garage to weigh the birds.
Now I know the scale I used isn;t the best, bet even if it is off a bit, it would still put me in striking range.

Thoughts, oppinions???

I also want to know how to document such a bird should I get another big one. Should I have it witnessed? Use a better scale??? Video tape??

I have never weighed birds many times before, and only weighed these ones cause Dad wanted to tell his buddies how much they weighed.
 
15 pounds is a big bird but I wouldn't say unheard of. We killed a 13.5 pound bird on Sunday (on a proper scale) and it was freaking huge but no doubt there are bigger. If you get a really big bird, take it to the post office or a grocery store and weigh it on a government inspected scale. Get the person that weighed it to put their name and number on the scale receipt and then sign it.

Bathroom scales can easily be off several pounds, especially with light weights like 15 pounds. Only way to know for sure is take it to a government inspected scale designed to weigh items in that range. Bathroom scales are more designed for heavier weights and horribly inaccurate with lower weights.

The SWF also has annual competitions that include biggest birds!
 
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In 30+ years of goose hunting,downed one that weighed over 14 lbs. weighed at a grocery store.To have two that weigh in at 15 lbs. each would be a strech but not impossible.I would also presume you are talking canada geese?
 
In the lab I have really accurate scales , but none that would accomodate a goose !!!

I also throw in, that the goose aforementioned is now in my belly. (or was)

I was quite impressed with the birds weight when we weighed them, not so much for the weight (the weight seemd normal in my mind, that's why I didn't post it in my original thread when I was out with Dad) but for the weight with such lack of fat. These birds were still early birds, and they were very very lean. Most that I cut through have a very distict layer of fat. These ones had very little fat on them. The ones I took last week were plumping up though, but just from looking at them, they were not 15 lb birds. I doubt theye were 12.
 
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11.5 and 13.5 pounds.....good thing for the geese she was only shooting an O/U or I'm sure there'd have been a third from that flock!
 
Well I'll leave it at saying they were at the very least, in striking distance of what many on the other site were calling pretty much impossible.

In the pic with me holding two, the one in my left hand is one of the heavy ones, not the one in my right. It was only 12 lbs.

The one that that Dad was tying up and has the side shot up was the one that we weighed at 15.2 (give or take:))

Weigh your birds guys, could be $800 in decoys in it for ya ;)
 
Call me skeptical but I can't see a guy offering up $800 worth of decoys for a 15 pound bird. Many years it takes a bird over 15 pounds to take home the prize from the AFGA competition and I suspect the SWF is no different. The Alberta record is 17lbs 14oz. I'm guessing there is more to this decoy story! If it sounds too good to be true....it likely is!
 
Link you sent me is from 2007 and the one sjemac posted is from 2006 and I visited the guy's site and clicked on contests and it hasn't been updated since 2005. Guessing you'd have trouble claiming your prize! Apparently it was only a dozen decoys as well......like I said....sounded too good to be true!
 
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Link you sent me is from 2007 and the one sjemac posted is from 2006 and I visited the guy's site and clicked on contests and it hasn't been updated since 2005. Guessing you'd have trouble claiming your prize! Apparently it was only a dozen decoys as well......like I said....sounded too good to be true!
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I'm a moderator there and the contest is real the first post is from 2006 but has been updated to present day and adjusted.

The decoys are $87 US each so YES the $800 is actually underestimated.

http://refugeforums.com/refuge/showthread.php?t=567078&highlight=goose+contest&page=3
 
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