Last day of the VA early goose season !

[6pt-Sika]

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













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 !

[6pt-Sika]

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

[Mills]

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.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[6pt-Sika]

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

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by 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.

We killed them in there already this year !