Century Mark

 

i went hunting snow geese, Arkansas snow goose hunt
            Thousands of geese, good way to start the hunt, trick will be to get them close enough for a shot

 

We darn near put 4,000 miles on the truck, but it was worth it! We left northern Utah in a blizzard and arrived in eastern Arkansas to 60 degree weather. In fact, it was almost 70 degrees on Tuesday, not bad for the first week of February.

 

Snow goose hunt, portable pit blind
                             All the comfort you could imagine in portable-type pit blind

 

We again booked our snow goose hunt with Waterfowl Junkie Outdoors and our guide Garrett did not disappoint. We experienced several different approaches to hunting these abundant snows, we concealed ourselves in layout blinds, sat in the comfort of a portable-type pit blind and hid in the open amongst the decoys dressed in white; each technique worked extremely well.

 

snow goose hunt  iwenthunting, i went hunting snow geese

          Pile of geese kept our retriever (Woodie) busy                          This retriever was trying to keep up with Woodie

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you’ve never experienced a snow goose hunt, get out there and try it. While it might be possible to do it on your own, the cost and logistics of finding birds, obtaining permission to hunt private ground, acquiring blinds, electronic calls, rotary machines, thousands of sillosock and full body decoys, can make a successful D.I.Y. hunt difficult. On the contrary, our multi-day hunt netted us a total of 201 geese for the trip!

snow goose hunt hiding in white camo  banded snow goose, ross's banded snow goose

          Hid right within our decoys, all concealment methods worked perfectly                  Bling! Banded Ross' snow goose

Not only did we slay a good number of geese overall in support of the snow goose conservation order, the youngest of our party shot his first snow goose, we shot a banded Ross’s goose and we hit the century mark of 100 birds on our last day by 11:15 a.m., packed up and headed for home.

 

iwenthunting, i went hunting snow geese century mark, spent shells hulls
                                               Lot's of spent shells, hit the century mark before noon