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23/05/05 Latest goose story. Last Friday a friend wanted to come out and do some cocker training so I said sure. But when Friday came it was nearly full storm, and although it was blowing and raining hell we stuck to the plan. We were training the snipe terrain when suddenly Honk Honk and a pair of Canada geese flew over and landed near the farm where I have permission to shoot on the other side of the lake. Well this was just to good pass up, so we head for the car and shortly we were driving up to the farm. As I said, the weather was terrible but I exited the car with my Sako .22 Hornet in one hand and my Bushnell electronic range finder in the other. After creeping for several meters I reached a stack of firewood and as I peeked over there they were so I eased up the rangefinder and click click 85 meters. Using the stack of wood to support my rifle it was an easy shot, however to my surprise the goose lifted into the air, flew a hundred or so meters and dropped like a stone into the storming water. But with the wind as it was I had no chance roe my boat out and get it. So, only one thing to do and that is to go to the car and get 14 month old Blazer. When we got back to the water the wind had blown the goose Northward and now it was a little closer but if we didn't get it soon it would ground itself on a small island so Blazer and I walked for a few more meters and suddenly he put his nose in the air and I said " got ya." The waves were so big that they all had white tops on them and I could only see the goose now and then. Blazer could not see it at all. Anyway I gave him the command he had been waiting for and off he went. By this time the goose was 70 to 80 meters out but he just kept swimming toward the smell and like the goose I could only see him now and then when he was on the top of a wave. When he finally reached the goose he took a grip where the neck and body meet and headed for pa pa and there it stayed until he delivered it me. I can tell you there was not a prouder man on the planet. The goose weighed 1.2 kilo more than him. |