Man I love this winter goose season...My cousin our 2 labs (litter mates), aburling and BURLYDAN (fellow gunnutz) and I set out around 530 this morning with our guns, 20 Goose shells, 10 sillouettes, 12 full bodys and 6 duck decoys. We walked a 1/2 km through 2' deep snow to our spot. We showed up at our spot only to find goose tracks covering the entire edge of the corn feild
We setup in the lower left corner of the feild. The feild itself was cut except for 12 or so rows 50 yards from the hedgerow as pictured below.
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This is the hedgerow we setup in.
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We setup our decoys, got hunkered in and waited......and waited.....
Then about 8 am it started.. a first it was just doubles and triples trickeling in.... Then after about 830 their friends showed up to party in groups of 12-20 fully commited to the dekes it was like the sky was falling. there were so many birds that we could hardly get the pups outta the feild before the next family group came it it was unrelenting chaos until we finished shooting our 40 bird limit at 11am. 40 geese in 180 min = roughly a bird evert 4 minutes on average. The shooting/reloading was so fast and hard that I some how managed to break the pin that holds in the easyloader on my 1100 and had to shoot my last hour by sticking a shell and my finger inside my action, releasing the slide then i could insert 2 rounds into the mag tube. Ronin (My lab) made over 25 + successful retrieves most of which were doubles. We were even given some nice jewlery to take home
Here are some of the pics i managed to get inbetween vollies.
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My 1 1/2 year old lab "RONIN" who has his JH and WC And just Loves to chase the winged birds.
Some of Ronins retrieved birds
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And the money shot...
But that was the easy part.....Trying to haul 40 15 lbs birds a half click threw knee high snow is WAY harder than it sounds the night before.
This was one of those days you never forget...
We setup in the lower left corner of the feild. The feild itself was cut except for 12 or so rows 50 yards from the hedgerow as pictured below.
This is the hedgerow we setup in.
We setup our decoys, got hunkered in and waited......and waited.....
Then about 8 am it started.. a first it was just doubles and triples trickeling in.... Then after about 830 their friends showed up to party in groups of 12-20 fully commited to the dekes it was like the sky was falling. there were so many birds that we could hardly get the pups outta the feild before the next family group came it it was unrelenting chaos until we finished shooting our 40 bird limit at 11am. 40 geese in 180 min = roughly a bird evert 4 minutes on average. The shooting/reloading was so fast and hard that I some how managed to break the pin that holds in the easyloader on my 1100 and had to shoot my last hour by sticking a shell and my finger inside my action, releasing the slide then i could insert 2 rounds into the mag tube. Ronin (My lab) made over 25 + successful retrieves most of which were doubles. We were even given some nice jewlery to take home
Here are some of the pics i managed to get inbetween vollies.
My 1 1/2 year old lab "RONIN" who has his JH and WC And just Loves to chase the winged birds.
Some of Ronins retrieved birds
And the money shot...
But that was the easy part.....Trying to haul 40 15 lbs birds a half click threw knee high snow is WAY harder than it sounds the night before.
This was one of those days you never forget...
