Remember sleeping at the doors of the Grove and Swan, just so you could sign up on the list when it opens each morning. Or waiting for a refill blind at the Grove, eating hot canned soup from a machine for $.25. Or getting a candy bar from the machine for a nickle? Going out on a refill and never putting out decoys, just hiding boat and loading up. But one cold late season goose hunt when I and one party showed up. We flipped a coin to see who would get first choice. I lost. The winners chose G-10, had shot out there the day before, I chose G9. Parked behind the handicap blind and started two trip across the ice dragging decoys, set out 3 dozen goose shells, and went back to get my gun, stove and coffee, the wind was howling and i kept hearing geese. I got to the back of the blind and a goose was sitting on the blind mound. He flushed in the dark but i called and in the moonlight he circled was went below the horizon and lit in the decoys. I sat outside the blind in 10 degree weather because he could see me I thought. I quietly loaded my gun and waited for shooting time. I also thought the hunters going to G10 would walk right past my area. I kept seeing movements in the decoys but couldn't see the goose, As it got light I started counting decoys and counted for 60! All were asleep or decoys. Five minutes after shooting time I stood up, one goose jumped up and i shot him, immediated the rest woke up and hopped. Staring at me i shot another, then they all got up. I sacked decoys and started the return trip to the parking lot. Never opened the coffee thermos until i had started the truck on the return home after bagging my geese. Another day at G9! PS a letter carrier from Liberty was at the headquarters and he refilled at G9 that day with his two geese also.
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crappie fisherman & waterfowl hunter
retired Army
But wait a minute I think I have another bite!!!!
Edited by BruceCarp (09/07/11 07:56 AM)
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