Whoa long time with no post

Well since the last post I have been coyote hunting on a public area (nothing), and goose season has opened back up on the first of Feb. I have been out 5 times with only one limit to show. That limit came on Monday at one of my properties and then right after we got covered up in ducks and geese, so we couldn't leave. (We didn't want to bust them out so we could go back and hunt it this week.) So we didn't get to start picking up until all of them left at around 6:25pm.
We've got alot of geese around it's just a matter of setting up on the X. It seems like if your not where they want to be there's no pulling them to where you want them to be.

I had Mike with me on this hunt, he's a buddy from work.

couple limits this week

Well we kept the ball rolling this week with a couple more limits. We hit a field that I've been waiting for the geese to get on. They took their time getting there but by the time they did the limits didn't take long to fill.

This hunt was kinda cool cause it was Sean's first limit

The second hunt was at another field that finally started getting geese on it. The bad news is that this is the first year in many that someone else is hunting the field. So the geese were more skidish than they usually are on this field. We stuck it out through the cold, and the won't drop in the pocket, and all the bad shooting, to get a limit apiece.

And yes we finally got some snow, and boy did it change the attitude of the geese around here.
I just wanted to mention that in the last couple hunts I haven't got any bands. I did have Sean go and retrieve a couple of MY geese and I think he's been stealin' my bands before he gets back to the blind. I mean I don't have any proof but I am fairly certain that's what's been happening......

Bandalicous

Started 2016 like I ended 2015.... full limits on geese and even shot one with some jewelry.

This goose was 5 years old and was banded in MI. This makes 5 bands this year : ) my goose totals might be down but my band acquisition is way above average.

Finally getting some weather

Last week we saw a little change in the mild winter.... RAIN or threats of rain all week. The warm weather continued but we did get out and bring the goose count down by 5.

This is the third time we have hit this field, and the first time we took anything off of it. It was an all day set but we finally were able to put some meat on the ground. By the way for those of you math wizards out there, we got 1 more after the pick was taken.
Next was my Christmas goose, on Christmas of course.

That pretty much summed it up for last week.
This week it rained all day Mon. and I was feeling a little sick so I stayed home. Tues I hit the water for geese with no luck, as a matter of fact I only saw one goose all day.
Wednesday I went to a property that has been holding a dozen geese or so and set up in the wee hours hoping to get 1 or 2. Well the morning flight came and went rather uneventfully so now I was in it for the long haul. As the day went on I had walked to the treeline to shall I say, "relieve myself" and stretch my legs. After the business was done I heard some geese, I looked out at my spread and in came 2 honkers that landed 5 feet from my layout blind. So after some deliberation I decided to make a slow walk to the geese and see how close I could get before they flew.

Apparently I could get close enough to put both of them in the dirt. So now all I have left is one goose so I was more determined to stay and try for the third. I put the 2 geese in the woods where I had just been and since I hadn't prepared to stay all day, I had to call Sarah to find out when sunset was. After she told me, I started walking out to get some more sleep ready for some geese. I noticed a flock of 6 geese starting out onto the far side of the field. I was close enough to get to my blind and get it closed before the geese were within the kill ring. I popped up and dropped my last goose for my limit of 3. I didn't have to call, I didn't get any video and everything was muddy, I didn't even get another band, but I did get my geese.
From zero to Hero in 17 minutes.

 Thursday I went and sat in a tree for 5 hours only to watch the squirrels, and woodpeckers. The good news is the October weather has finally arrived.  : )

warm--- non-eventful--- sad week

I had a pretty rough week this week....
For starters it was really warm only going into the upper 30's lower 40's at night. Went out and sat for some deer on Tues. evening. Didn't see any deer but did enjoy watching all the squirrels. Went out for some duck hunting this morning and didn't see a duck.
The caper for the week was I finally got a freezer full of fur, so I packed all the bodies in the car and headed to the furrier, only to arrive and see a "Closed- No Russian market" sign on the door. Now, this guy has been in business since he was a teenager and he's around my age now. So I gave him a call to find out what happened. Apparently he had to close because the Russians aren't buying furs; he still has all the pelts from last year and most of the pelts from 2 years ago. He also said this will probably be the way it is for the next couple of years to five years.
So today I pulled all my traps for the year and will not reset next week. I did find a buyer in the area but will probably only make pennies on the dollar for the coon and muskrat I have. It's really sad and has me pretty tore up over the whole deal, even though there's nothing I can do about it.
This was going to be the year my trapping broke even, even though I invested another $200 in it. Now I have all my traps pulled and drying in the shed waiting to be packed away until the fur market makes a come back.... if it ever does.