Fiasco

[3geese4me]

So as many of you know, last night my hunting partner bailed on me while I was on my way to go scouting. Already irritated, I went out anyways hoping to find some birds to at least piece together a hunt. Turns out I did find a pretty good feed of snows, mallards and a handful of canada geese. Land was posted, luckily I have built a decent relationship with this farmer and after a quick phone call permission was granted. The only stipulation was that I do not drive into the field, well that's not the best news but it is certainly not the worst either. After much deliberation and knowing snow geese habits I decided to cut them off and hunt 1 field closer to the roost. My reasoning for this was that there were enough geese using that field that I thought maybe they would eat the field out and move on to other food sources. Earlier in the year I had seen canadas using this field and opted to just use my canada goose decoys, and I could drive into this field which is always a plus for me. Well my predictions were wrong, horribly wrong.

So morning comes and I pull into the field. Off in the distance I see white specks flying like mosquitos and soon realize that those specks were in fact geese. Little did I know that the geese were using the sheet water in this field as a roost. Awesome, just awesome I thought to myself. Well it can't get much worse so I decide to set up anyways and hope for the best. In a little under an hour I set up 8 doz bigfoot fullbody decoys and the hunt started soon after that.

Shooting time came and the mallards just started pouring into this field. I had my limit of 5 in a little under 15 minutes, I then spent the rest of the hunt chasing decoys across the prairie. The winds today were 15-30 with gusts to 45, not ideal situations for using fullbody decoys in a flat field. Well now the geese get off a distant roost and head to the field they were in last night. With snow geese you need to practice patience. I knew it would only be a matter of time before they fed that field out and would be on the hunt for more food. So I held tight and waited, and waited, and waited until finally off in the distance I see a flock of snows locked up and committed to my decoys. After a barrage of sounds from my goose call I convinced them to give me a look. I took 2 geese out of that flock and not too afterwards, more and more birds started coming. I got 2 canada geese to come over and I landed both of them in the decoys and managed to shoot one of them. Lastly, a trio of snows comes over and I pull up and shoot all 3 of them. I looked at my days take of 3 snows, 1 ross, 1 blue, 1 canada and 5 mallards and decided that was enough.
The days bag

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This is my decoy trailer. I can fit 8 doz bigfoots, 4 FA Sport Utility Blinds, rakes, shovels and flags in there comfortably

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Spread pictures

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I seen this after I was in the truck and kind of chuckled. Looked like I committed a mass murder.

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[rebelp74]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

[Feelin' Fowl]

Not too shabby for the situation, or any situation for that matter!

[The Duck Hammer]

Nice work, sounds like it was a major PITA to get them but at least it paid off.

[3geese4me]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

I can carry 5 at a time and that's only 19 trips back and forth to the trailer. Not that I've ever counted before or anything.

[rebelp74]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

I can carry 5 at a time and that's only 19 trips back and forth to the trailer. Not that I've ever counted before or anything.

You had to be running

[Feelin' Fowl]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

I can carry 5 at a time and that's only 19 trips back and forth to the trailer. Not that I've ever counted before or anything.

[3geese4me]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

I can carry 5 at a time and that's only 19 trips back and forth to the trailer. Not that I've ever counted before or anything.

You had to be running

Not running, but I'm moving a pretty quick pace.

[RonE]

What a fantastic one man hunt! Too bad your partner didn't go.

[Goldfish]

Pretty easy to get all those decoys out when you flip the trailer over?

sent from a phancy fone

[Redbeard]

Nice job 3geese!


#tazincali

[Rick]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

Dunno, looks like he just flipped the truck and dumped 'em out.

[3geese4me]

Nice! 8 doz in an hour is a feat!

Dunno, looks like he just flipped the truck and dumped 'em out.

Work smarter not harder! Haha

[DeadEye_Dan]

Nicely done.

[jarbo03]

Nice hunt. Feels good when a little hard work pays off. What kind of tires on your truck and trailer, I need some of those.

[3geese4me]

Nice hunt. Feels good when a little hard work pays off. What kind of tires on your truck and trailer, I need some of those.

Truck tires are Nitto Dura Grapplers, 265/75R17 is the size I believe. And the trailer tires are nothing fancy, I just went to a hardware store and bought the landscaping tires they had. I think they were $100 for the rim and tire, I'm on my second set in 5 years.

[assateague]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

[3geese4me]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

Ugh, I fail again at catching a smart ass question. Thats usually my forte.

[jarbo03]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

Ugh, I fail again at catching a smart ass question. Thats usually my forte.

Haha. You killin birds is nothing new, but a truck that drives upside down, that's awesome!

#tazincali2014itsgonnahappen

[3geese4me]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

Ugh, I fail again at catching a smart ass question. Thats usually my forte.

Haha. You killin birds is nothing new, but a truck that drives upside down, that's awesome!

#tazincali2014itsgonnahappen

Driving a truck upside down is a dealer installed option

[Goldfish]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

Ugh, I fail again at catching a smart ass question. Thats usually my forte.

Haha. You killin birds is nothing new, but a truck that drives upside down, that's awesome!

#tazincali2014itsgonnahappen

Driving a truck upside down is a dealer installed option

is that what happens when you follow on star's directions?

sent from a phancy fone

[3geese4me]

Bahaha

[jarbo03]

I think he was talking about them being able to grip so well they defeat gravity.

Ugh, I fail again at catching a smart ass question. Thats usually my forte.

Haha. You killin birds is nothing new, but a truck that drives upside down, that's awesome!

#tazincali2014itsgonnahappen

Driving a truck upside down is a dealer installed option

I got my parts for drivin upside down at the liquor store. Way cheaper, unless you get caught.

#tazincali2014itsgonnahappen

[flight control]

Nice way to salvage the hunt you had planed. Sounds like there weren't enough geese for your buddy anyways.