advice for geese

[mendozer]

I reserved a spot through DFW for geese on saturday the 23rd. It's up in Skagit and having never done geese before, should I:

1. Just go and use the blind, wait for birds to land. I'm not well versed in using any call so I don't want to screw it up

2. buy a call and try to learn as quickly as possible

3. other?

I don't have decoys nor do I intend to buy a bunch for this outing.

[JODakota]

Here's some advice on geese. They don't cooperate. When you think they are about to cooperate, they don't. Setting up decoys suck, after setup and they don't cooperate it sucks even more. You will be cold, the birds you think should die when shot at, don't. A goose call is an instrument, not a simple call. You will get frustrated, and they won't cooperate. But, when they do cooperate (which is seldom) it will create a terrible addiction

[Duckslayer89]

Unless there is horrible weather and you set up decoys in a spot that has protection, I have had better luck with geese just not setting any decoys up at all. Especially this late in the season. Set up where you see the geese hanging out and just hide and wait, or where there is sign like lots of bird poop or feathers. Also I only use HEVI-SHOT when I'm strictly goose hunting. It's the only thing that will crush geese out to 60/70 yards. 3.5" HEVI-SHOT "b" size is pretty incredible. I would never take those shots with steel but the hevi has proven ballistics to do it. Study shows HEVI SHOT "T" size has the lethal power to bring down geese at 100 yards.