Early Goose 2008

[Spencer5100]

Had two days of awesome honker hunting with my buddy jeff.


What Finishers??


4 Honkers in, None out.


Day 1

Day 2



Notice the two FFD Lookers right near our blinds facing the kill hole. This simulates a pair of mature geese  confronting the incoming flocks and standing their ground. It works very well for us when one person does moans and spit notes and the other does clucks as this is how a pair of geese will naturally call.

Hope everyone had a good opener!

[Shane]

You guys did great !!
Man those blinds blended in perfectly !
Was that natural vegetation or artificial?
Congrats Guys a Job well done!!

[Spencer5100]

We use natural vegetation and it is definetly a pain in the butt. However.. raffia is Blessed near impossible to match. I have tried both killerweed and whoopgrass and I would give them both a C. The whoopgrass looks a little better than the killerweed. I have tried dying plain raffia a million times with all kinds of dye and the real grass is just the only way to go. It is nice to have blinds permanently camoed, but so far I have not been able to get the color right when dying natural raffia and winterwheat killerweed or whoopgrass doesnt match very well either. It does take about 45 minutes to do a layout the way I like it in a cow pasture, so plan on getting there early. If you are hunting fields packed with dumb geese and can settle for simply being broke up rather than invisible, then about 20 minutes will do just fine.

[John Akehurst]

Looks like you all had fun.

I was hoping to have a bunch on the deck this past Friday evening.  We had one bird circle us at about quarter after 6.  That was it.  He circled twice but never comitted and was to high to shoot at.  I don't know what went wrong.  All I can figure is that maybe I was too agressive with the call.  On Monday morning I barely blew the call and we had 5 come in and hit the deck.

I agree with your post, there is nothing that matches like the natural cover around you.  But sometimes it does take a long time to collect it and camoflauge it.

Your blinds are blended perfectly.

[Spencer5100]

All birds are definetly different, but we had to be super aggressive with the geese this weekend and call till we pulled the trigger or they would slide off and look they were going to land on an edge of the spread. THe more we called, the closer they finished. I guess thats early season birds for ya.

[craig]

Spencer

Man ,I am drooling,was that 5 birds per day,wow !!! we only get 2

craig

[darstormas1]

where did you get the idea to use the pair of lookers right in the kill hole, we usually put them on the edges somewhere? and not together.

[Shane]

The two lookers at the hole just in front of the hunters also gives the birds the right visual and body postured birds in the direct location in the spread the territorial calling is coming from therefore allowing you to call more on the approach with out getting pinpointed. Spencer you were right on the money partner...Highly effective!!
Wished I could have been there to watch

[Spencer5100]

Fred Zink has talked about it in some of his videos, and also just watching real geese. As birds land, the rest will stand up and face them, stretching out their necks and clucking and moaning to show aggression.