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12-30-2024, 06:17 AM

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A big 12 and big goose

I took a whopper of a goose yesterday with a gun that hasn't got out much as it took a back seat to my Short Tens. Two hits with 1 1/4 bismuth #4 and the second shot was an honest 45 to 50 yards. Three frame VH 12, 9 pounds, 32" full and full, .036 in each barrel. Gun was built in 1900, brought back from the dead by DelGrego & Son in 2008.

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Looks like one dead goose…and one happy hunter. Congratulations! A 3 frame 12 is on my list…

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Pete, congrats!! That should count as two geese

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Pete, congrats!! That should count as two geese

Thanks, it was a bruiser for sure. Scott had to give the coup de gras from the front of the boat when we went to get it. Geese are tough birds.

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Looks like one dead goose…and one happy hunter. Congratulations! A 3 frame 12 is on my list…

Thanks, the long barrels and heavy weight helps to keep it swinging for sure.

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Must have made one heck of a splash!! Nice job!

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Must have made one heck of a splash!! Nice job!

It sure did but it wasn't quite enough to trigger tsunami sirens.

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What did that beast of a goose weigh?

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What did that beast of a goose weigh?

This one was 12 pounds. I have shot some 13 pounders in years past.

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Years ago the old man and I killed one weighed 19 pounds on the state deer check station scales. Heaviest one I've ever seen in person.

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