Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: GEARHEAD on December 28, 2012, 04:55:51 PM
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interesting read regarding skagit snow geese on kirotv.com i now feel very guilty having broken apart snow families.
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Scanned the site and couldn't find it, but your post brought back kind of a bad memory.
Years ago when I was a young and hunting alone a honker family of 5 landed out pretty much out of range from my ditch. I still can't believe 747 shell decoys worked back then. Anyway, I decided to dump all the shells (lead back then) on the huge gander. He looked HUGE. All the other geese took off but him afterward. The 4 remaining geese kept circling him as I was walking up to the standing gander. He didn't run, even though he could have, but stood his ground hissing at me. I have never been someone who needed to slews grounded field birds, but am a neck ringer so this completed the bad experience I will never forget.
He weighed 12.5 pounds.
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the article mentioned watching snows at the preserve, last thursday, arriving in V formations then splitting off in units of three, to land a mother a father and a child, or words to that effect.