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- Category: Waterfowl
- Published: Sunday, 12 February 2017 21:19
- Written by Greg
Century Mark
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.
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.
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!
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.