We went out goose hunting sat a late morning hunt . We had steady action the whole time . We worked close to 30 flocks or better and decoyed maybe six flocks . The first group of decoyed geese left with 2 less . I had my young 3 year old who is still not retrived any downed birds yet and he was up to bat with 2 crips anchored on the ground . I walked out and sent him on a line to the farthest one he found it but looked a little confounded and just kind of nosed the bird well after a little encouragement he picked it up and carried the bird back to the blind after alot of praise and cheers we sent him for the second and he ran it daown and carried that one back as well . That was the light switch coming on cause after that every goose we dropped he was on them tackling two flappers and carry them back wit an old ornery honker tryin to nip him in the face . Young colby was caverd with blood he looked like a video superstar on a Jeff foiles tape . I t was great I know have 2 stallions in my stabel waiting for the spring snow geese to come back .
Unfortunatlly and sad as it is the use of steelshot that we are required to use now realy sucks for knockdown power . Even from the big ten gouge it just does not have the down range ballistics add to that late season plumage and you have a real challenge knocking down these geese . I can remember before the steel shot rule was implemented we shot geese all season with lead chilled ,coppercoated and nickelplated we killed them stone dead out to 70yards and better with few crippels . The best way to describe the diffrernce betwwen lead and steel is would you rather get hit with apingpong ball doing 45 or a leadball the same size doing 30mph . Steel is a lot lighter but moves alot faster demanding headshots as the only way for a instant kill .
Colbys light switch
Posted - 01/24/2011 : 15:50:44
