Since we are sharing, here is my Giant Canada Goose that I got last year. When I brought it to the taxidermist, he asked me what the hell I had there. LOL Weighed just under 19 lbs. I've shot turkeys that weighed less. I still want to do this using my Parker like Duckman's original post. Next season I guess.

Nice!

now thats a big goose..be tobad if that big fellow fell from the sky on a fella..one thing for sure he or she been eating good....charlie

Destry,
The small race birds, and there are several types, are pretty much a Pacific Flyway or west side of the Central Flyway proposition. Probably uncommon where you are. We are right on the edge of both flyways, hence we see all three teal species. Not sure how the male Cinnamon and Blue Wings tell their ladies apart. I guess the girls know who to wink at.

I've been in the field when small race geese were shot here in the Mississippi Flyway, and I've even hunted them in Oregon! Still never killed one.....

My buddy killed a pair of Aleutians in Oregon the day after I left......

DLH

so I am slow, these 2 geese weigh about 4 lbs each.

Is the Ross goose considered a small race bird? I have shot them in Manitoba while hunting Snow's.

The Ross is pretty well considered a separate goose, though they're related to the Snow Goose obviously. I killed a pair of those out of a huge flock that came over me down in Mississippi. My buddy wanted to surprise me so he didn't tell me that nearly every white goose in that are was a Ross. We'd tried to get a shot on white geese the whole time I was down there but were only getting specklebellies. That was fine with me as I'd never killed one of those either.

Finally he put me on a pond levee next to a field full of them and before he could get driven away nearly the whole field got up and came over me but real high. I poured fire into them as quick as I could, even managing to reload once. When the smoke cleared I had a pair flopping, one was close to the shore of the pond so I waded in to get it. I nearly passed out from excitement when I saw it was a Ross! It was only then that he told me nearly everything down there was, but that he didn't want to make me nervous when he finally got me a shot. Hah!


DLH

I grew up around Ross geese in California and they were protected for years but not any longer. So to were tule geese which is a smaller race of white front or specklebelly. I have killed Ross geese here in Colorado as well as California. Of the white geese, they are the ones I consider edible, much like a good duck. They are distinguished by their small size, 3-4 pounds, and pink feet and bills. -plc-

Nice mount on those cacklers!