If you havent tried reelwings in your decoy spread, you do not know what you are missing.

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Goose hunting is an exciting sport that requires you to have a wide set of skills. It’s challenging in many ways and requires you to really capture your hunter spirit as you plan out your goose hunting strategy each season.

A goose hunter must master the skills of calling geese, setting up a covert goose blind, learning the strategies of spreading his goose decoys and finally having the patience to wait for his goose hunting setup to produce some great results.

One very important aspect of goose hunting is the way you position your goose decoys in the field. This can make or break your hunting season so goose hunters should pay close attention to their spread.

Geese are mostly dry feeders. This means they like to feed on the ground and look for grains and corn shells. Geese are migratory birds so when they land they’re looking to quickly eat and maybe rest a bit before they take off again.

You’ll want to position your geese together in small groups of three to seven. These are called family groups. The majority of your goose decoys need to be in the feeder position. This means their heads should be down on the ground as if they were eating.

You’ll want to have at least one goose decoy in your family pack to be in the sentry position. The sentry position is the look out position. This goose is watching for trouble while the others feed.

The rest of your decoys should be resters or sleepers. These are geese who are resting or sleeping on the ground.

It is always best to have the majority of your decoys as feeders while the rest are either sleeping or in the sentry position.

As always, we’re trying to mimic the natural grazing behavior of migratory geese. It’s always best to experiment and try new things. You never know if you’ve created the right combination until you get out there and try it yourself!

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We shot 21 geese for the day. It was a pretty good hunt. Needed more people, but we went back the next day with 14 guys and shot 40…

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The crew has over 200 duck kills and over 100 geese kills this season!!!

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Goose hunting in Vadstena 2009

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A short film of my 2009 Spring Snow Goose hunt next to the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge outside Mound City, Missouri. I was using a Benelli Nova 12 gauge shooting 3″ Federal Black Cloud FS Steel #BB and harvested a number of Snow and Ross’s Geese. Ducks Unlimited www.ducks.org Benelli http Black Cloud FS Steel www.blackcloudammo.com Northwest Missouri Outfitters http Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge www.fws.gov Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge is located in northwestern Missouri within the historic Missouri River floodplain. The 7350-acre refuge was established in 1935 as a resting, feeding, and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife. Many of the original facilities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. The principal refuge habitats are seasonal and semipermanent wetlands, native warm and cool season grasslands, woodlands, and croplands. The refuge includes loess bluff hills, unusual geologic formations caused by wind-deposited soil, where remnants of the once-vast native prairie still exist. Squaw Creek is best known for its large concentrations of snow geese, other waterfowl, and bald eagles. The refuge is a major stop-over for waterfowl, with more than one-half million birds in the fall and lesser, but still spectacular, numbers in the spring. The refuge is within the Mississippi Flyway.

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Watch video of from North Flight Waterfowl’s 2006 season. We hunt in Eastern Washington fro Canada geese and ducks.

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snow goose hunting

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Two hunters and a red golden retriever at Canada goose hunting.

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Blackfoot Guide Service Lubbock, Tx Goose Hunt

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