Feltwad.............Back when I was a teen ager , 1960"s. each year we used to go to the Pa. Blame Comm.'s Pymatuming Goose hunting area in N.W. Pa.. Ya had to send in and enter a lottery to get to hunt there. Vast cornfields w/prepared blinds , etc. , maybe 3 tenths of mile apart , w/ 4 guys per blind. Rule was 10 shells per hunter. One guy always went with us was John. John , I considered a rich guy. He was a Mine foreman , always big cigar and very funny and entertaining fellow. He was a big guy with a 10 ga.mag. sbs double. On "blue bird " days , (bright and sunny , cloudless) , john was the only guy who got the high flying geese. When he would "sky bust " one , being the dog that would chase the goose down at age 13 , I marveled at how far away a goose would fall and hit the ground. Days like that , I knew I wouldn't go home w/ a goose using my old hand-me-down 12 ga. pump.
However , on damp cloudy days , a different story. Dad and I were trap shooters and I could shoot pretty good , so w/ my 10 shots , I could put enough lead in the sky that some poor Canada goose might fly into the cloud of bb's. We did get low flying geese when the sky was grey. Thanks for sharing your experiences while hunting geese. Gotts love this stuff.....................oldwood
