Last day of the VA early goose season !

[CraigThompson]

Went out this AM for the last day of the early resident Canada Goose season !

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Well my shooting was perfect today with my circa 1889 Parker EH 10 gauge !

But then we never took a shot , we couldn't get any to drop in on us today .
I did use my new to me layout blind today , that thing is actually rather comfortable much to my surprise !

[CraigThompson]

We had about 3 dozen decoys out full bodies , shells and a few silhouettes !

[Mills Morrison]

That looks like fun. I have shot geese before, but never a dedicated goose hunt. I just got an invitation to a deer drive on one of the big plantations in a few weeks and am psyched.

[CraigThompson]

That looks like fun. I have shot geese before, but never a dedicated goose hunt. I just got an invitation to a deer drive on one of the big plantations in a few weeks and am psyched.

Never did ANY of the waterfowl stuff until a couple weeks ago !

Kinda refreshing to do something I haven't been doing for over 40 years .

Now the deer drive thing is starting to become another of my favourites . Hopefully at some point I can get in on one close to Georgetown SC !!!!!
I've contacted a bunch of the pay by the day places about doing that and they're all pretty much stand hunts only . Maybe one of these days I can find a place . And that EH in the layout blind with me today will more then likely be the preffered doe slayer :whistle:

[CraigThompson]

Incidently there's a fellow over on the Eastern Shore of Maryland I've talked with a couple times about maybe coming over and getting a couple Canvesbacks . On the times I got waterfowl intrested in the past Greenheads , Cans and Honkers drew my attention .

[charlie cleveland]

great looking set up you had there and a fine goose landing strip..sometimes things just don t come together....good looking goose slayer and shells...were the shells factory or did you roll your own...charlie

[CraigThompson]

great looking set up you had there and a fine goose landing strip..sometimes things just don t come together....good looking goose slayer and shells...were the shells factory or did you roll your own...charlie

I loaded them .

[Daniel G Rainey]

Like Mills I have killed some geese, but now let the young guys fight the waterfowl wars. I deer hunt a lot, but in Mississippi the old time deer drive with horses ,hounds and drivers on foot are just about a thing of the past. Several years ago while visiting my sister in the Mount PLeasant I was asked on a deer drive at the Middleton Hunt Club in the middle of the low country. It was a hoot! . This was a shotgun only and as I recall, I have never seen as many Parker and Fox side by side at any hunt. Most were guns passed down in the family .We met an old gentleman well into his 80's at the club gate ( a member ) and he was highly upset that they were letting members climb trees and shoot at deer with rifles without turning the hounds out. He had killed his first deer at Middleton at age 7 was still shooting the same double. This was most enjoyable morning, some members wore tweed coats with ties and hunting horn around their neck to call in the hounds or let everyone know they killed one ( no cell phones ) I was passable in my Barbour jacket and knee high rubber boots. The lunch was to write home about ! And everyone had fun.It was great day! Dan

[Dick Miller]

6 Pt,
Certainly you didn't expect geese to draw to your decoys in that tall Johnson grass, did you? Three counties south of you we hunt in grazed pastures when a cut cornfield isn't available.

[CraigThompson]

6 Pt,
Certainly you didn't expect geese to draw to your decoys in that tall Johnson grass, did you? Three counties south of you we hunt in grazed pastures when a cut cornfield isn't available.

We killed them in there already this year !

[CraigThompson]

Like Mills I have killed some geese, but now let the young guys fight the waterfowl wars. I deer hunt a lot, but in Mississippi the old time deer drive with horses ,hounds and drivers on foot are just about a thing of the past. Several years ago while visiting my sister in the Mount PLeasant I was asked on a deer drive at the Middleton Hunt Club in the middle of the low country. It was a hoot! . This was a shotgun only and as I recall, I have never seen as many Parker and Fox side by side at any hunt. Most were guns passed down in the family .We met an old gentleman well into his 80's at the club gate ( a member ) and he was highly upset that they were letting members climb trees and shoot at deer with rifles without turning the hounds out. He had killed his first deer at Middleton at age 7 was still shooting the same double. This was most enjoyable morning, some members wore tweed coats with ties and hunting horn around their neck to call in the hounds or let everyone know they killed one ( no cell phones ) I was passable in my Barbour jacket and knee high rubber boots. The lunch was to write home about ! And everyone had fun.It was great day! Dan
Like you I hunt deer more then anything .And pretty much for the last 25 years I've hunted out of a tree and usually alone not out of a camp . In the past four or five years I've gotten a little more socially acclimated hunting with an old friend and his family at the end of the season . The driving thing is different obviously from what I'm used to and the social part makes it a lot more fun hence the reason I like this goose stuff . I suppose if I were at that club in MS I could do the knee high rubber boots as that's about all I wear when hunting deer or whatever , but as to the tweeds all my tweed blazers are more for cocktail parties or college football games when I was still inclined to go to such things . My hunting attire is more a Georgia thing AKA Realtree lol's 😉

[Mills Morrison]

Like Mills I have killed some geese, but now let the young guys fight the waterfowl wars. I deer hunt a lot, but in Mississippi the old time deer drive with horses ,hounds and drivers on foot are just about a thing of the past. Several years ago while visiting my sister in the Mount PLeasant I was asked on a deer drive at the Middleton Hunt Club in the middle of the low country. It was a hoot! . This was a shotgun only and as I recall, I have never seen as many Parker and Fox side by side at any hunt. Most were guns passed down in the family .We met an old gentleman well into his 80's at the club gate ( a member ) and he was highly upset that they were letting members climb trees and shoot at deer with rifles without turning the hounds out. He had killed his first deer at Middleton at age 7 was still shooting the same double. This was most enjoyable morning, some members wore tweed coats with ties and hunting horn around their neck to call in the hounds or let everyone know they killed one ( no cell phones ) I was passable in my Barbour jacket and knee high rubber boots. The lunch was to write home about ! And everyone had fun.It was great day! Dan



I have not hunted at Middleton, but went to a men's luncheon at the clubhouse and had one of the long time guides give a talk which was basically a bunch of hunting stories. That was cool.

[CraigThompson]

This link of Middleton looks rather intresting !

http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/11/middleton-hunt-club-buck-report.html

http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-years-day-driven-hunt.html


http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-photos-from-new-years-day.html

[CraigThompson]

This link of Middleton looks rather intresting !

http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/11/middleton-hunt-club-buck-report.html

Now bear in mind I've only been in the Arkansas Mississippi Louisianna area once but I swear life seems a lot more leisurely there . But then I was in a hunting camp of some well heeled gentleman .

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I've never had much interest in shooting deer but one of these old time driven hunts would be right up my alley.

Destry

[charlie cleveland]

i like the deer drives...we use to do a lot of them here on my dads place...we killed some good bucks too...all of us now except a few are eitger to old to walk the drive or are hunting in greener pastures...my dad thought this idea up...take a gallon plastic jug and put several rocks in it and shake it pretty hard often while on a deer drive...it will make them bucks get outa bed in a hurry....try a string around it and put it over your shoulder .......charlie