"Charlie Self" wrote in message

At this stage of my life, I tend to prefer supermarket (well, butcher
shop)
meats, but at one time...Canada geese have become a damned nuisance in a
lot of
areas, but I think the original poster was aiming a shot at Kerry for
hunting
nearly tame animals. I've seen Canadas that you could walk close to,
though the
hissing is ferocious, and others that are beating wings quickly. It seems
to
me, that for hunting, you'd walk them up, or have a dog that will walk
them up,
then not take a shot until they're well on their way, so the job is not
much
different than duck hunting and quail hunting.

Being raised on a farm, I know what a damned nuisance tame ducks and geese
are, particularly when you have a back porch, or driveway, that they decide
to frequent ... it being my almost daily task of spraying off said surfaces
until I left home at 17.

There is apparently a sub-species of Canada Goose loosely called the
"resident" variety that are larger than the ones that typically migrate to
this area. These "resident" geese are basically non-migratory, and I believe
it is this sub-species that most folks are talking about when the phrase
"damned nuisance" is used in conjunction with "Canada Goose".

When hunting the migrating variety down here, we do so either laying on the
ground, covered in white, in the middle of a "goose spread" (generally made
up of a few decoys and hundreds of white rags), or in a camouflaged pit dug
along a levee or rice field. Very uncomfortable hunting, but I wouldn't
hesitate to do it two or three times a week during goose season when
younger.

Although I occasionally miss the thrill of being in the middle of 50,000
geese landing around your spread on a freezing foggy morning, I no longer
relish laying on the cold, wet ground at my age .. which is absolutely
necessary to get anywhere within shotgun range of this migrating variety.

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