Busy week

 After work on Sunday I scouted for Monday, and once again I found them on the same property I shot last week. I knew Monday was going to be an all day sit, the weather was calling for partly cloudy.... That actually means mostly sunny, and geese will sit until last light. I got to the field kinda early and started to set up, it was then I realized I forgot my main blind so I had to set up a backup blind. I finally get settled in and to my disbelief I see my locals lifting up and flying to the North.... that is not the direction I was. At this point all I could do is hope they come over to see me on the way back to roost. So I did what any dedicated hunter would do... I made it more challenging by hunting with only my ears.... The first migrator flock woke me up with their calling. So I started calling back and wow they just got in the elevator and dropped right down on me. I wasn't sure if I was able to make them come around for another pass, so as soon as I had a good shot, I did. I dropped one out of the first flock and whiffed on my other 2 shots. Same went for the second flock, the third I dropped 3 but one had 2 lives apparently and made a quick getaway before I could get another shell loaded. 

 If you look at the geese on either end they are smaller, and they both came from the last flock. The two in the middle are regular sized whereas the others are definitely subspecies of Canada's.

 

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I don't know why you can't see the video, but if you go to the blog site or YouTube you can see it. 

Anyway it was a pretty good day and I got some sleep between the goose interruptions. 

Oh yeah, this guy showed up when I was picking up.

He stayed just long enough to realize it's not duck season.
 

Tuesday I ended up getting my weekly stuff done and I went and shot my .222 to get it ready for coyote season. 

I think it's good to go.

Well that's all the good stuff that happened this week....

Wait, Wait don't go yet... 

what would a week be without some bad luck? It just wouldn't be real.

I don't remember what I had to check in my furnace room but I did see that my hot water heater is leaking. I was just in there no more than 2 weeks ago. 😢

 

All major spending is on hold until I find out how much this is going to cost.😢😬😭 

How was your Thanksgiving?

 I went to my buddies house for Thanksgiving again this year. His wife puts on a very good spread, and I appreciate the invite. After the meal my buddy, myself and Phil headed out to the barn to start the annual after Thanksgiving BS session. At around 2:30 Jake asked if I want to go across the road to see if I could get a doe. I said yes and got out of my good clothes and into some hunting clothes (that I just happened to have with me.) He Ubered me over to his blind in the Canam, dropped me off and went back to the Barn. At 4:20 I called Jake up and asked for a knife since I left mine at home, he said you need one? I said yep I'm done.

Long story short I took this doe at 275 yards with Jakes Christensen 300 prc, what a piece of equipment. Since we had been talking about goose hunting the next morning (friday) that started the wheels turning to take the day off. When we called off that hunt, I was still in day off mode and called in anyway. That really didn't turn out good for me becuse instead of MAKING 350 I SPENT 800.... decisions were made...

Anyway with the passing of Thanksgiving came the start of the pheasant clean up. Monday I went out in perfect conditions... fresh snow. I had a harder time than I thought I would've but I did shoot at 1 bird, that kept flying 😩. I worked half the day just to see a pheasant. Tuesday went a little better....

After the hunt I drove to Fort Wayne to check on the goose situation and low and behold I had geese, so I got on the phone and devised a plan. 

Well none of the usual suspects could make it so I rolled out by myself the next morning. I got set up by 7:40ish and had limit by 9:42, the actual time from the first shot to the last was less than 20 mins. Super good time and an awesome hunt.

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