As another year passes...

[Britsmoothy]

I get this year's goose with a muzzloader, again, I am delighted to say.
A goodly skein fast on the wind and a little higher than I like!
The 10g was loaded with 100gn of 4f, yes that's correct 4f, and 2oz of #3 tungsten matrix.
Two thin cards and one thin leather as a wad.
Before I left home I popped a cap on a rodded patch per barrel for good measure. I do not store my muzzloaders with oil so was confident of ignition.
So the first smaller skein as I feared got blown wide by the wind but the larger skein behind was looking good in the failing light but was also a little lower!
They were so fast I had to shoot early and the bird did indeed react as though shot but did not fall!
Instinctively I swung through the same bird now directly overhead and fired to witness the same bird fold up and plummet to the ground thirty yards behind me!
Awesome.
That 10g and fine powder gets some horsepower up!

I feel a meatloaf a coming up....
Thank you Lord.

 

[jdw276]

Oh you had some fun there and good eatin. Congraulations on the successful hunt.....

 

[Thingamajiggy]

A successful hunt, well done! Never had goose meatloaf, will have to try sometime.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Brit, they make good pastrami also, my buddy has a killer recipe for goose breast in a cranberry sauce sliced thin over wild rice, also. I will perhaps get an invite this year to the eastern shore for a day of gunning Canada geese, was asked if I wanted to get in on the goose club pit lease, but I live too far away to be worth the cost, and then later in the year head up to the Delaware line for snows. Right now, getting ready for a Wyoming Antelope/Mule deer hunt leave in eleven days. It's getting to be the most wonderful time of the year around here, GOOD GUNNING.

 

[Dale Lilly]

Brit, I'll be over for dinner. Dale

 

[ORBushman]

Congratulations and that's a fine looking critter gitter!

 

[TDM]

Awesome! Congratulations Brit.

 

[ppg1949]

Congratulations on a successful hunt. What brand double is that? Thanks for sharing.

 

[Brokennock]

Excellent Brit. Good on you sir.

 

[Stykbow]

Congrats and nice follow up on your first shot.

 

[Des52]

Nice shooting Britt, makes me want to get the 10 gage out, the geese are flying. Tried some 3F loads that worked well in the 10, have not tried 4F yet.

 

[Penske]

Nice Britt! Sure will make some nice dinner.

 

[upperplains]

Good shooting sir! You said it. Amen.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Congratulations on a successful hunt. What brand double is that? Thanks for sharing.

It is a Pedersoli friend.
Thank you.

 

[Reds]

Nice one Brit! We make spicy goose jerky with ours and also smoke a lot of them with applewood chips and a pour of bourbon in the water pan!!

 

[Old Timer 48]

Success! Nice bird.

 

[Eutycus]

The title of this thread kind of hit home. I suppose saying "Congratulations" would be repetitive and old hat but I'll say it anyways. Congrats on your bird.

 

[hanshi]

No surprise here, Nate. You did it again as you always do. You set a very high bar for the rest of us to marvel at and hope one day to reach. Awesome!

 

[Patocazador]

Is that a graylag goose? (I am NOT a goose expert having never shot one. They seldom come to central Florida.)

 

[Britsmoothy]

Is that a graylag goose? (I am NOT a goose expert having never shot one. They seldom come to central Florida.)

It is indeed a greylag goose.