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goose

nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
A goose showed up at a small, drying up pond across from our house. The pond was a pond, but a contractor made it into an illegal landfill, so it has lots of building materials in it, and very little water.

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Here is the "pond."

We don't know where the goose came from.

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It is not a wild species, but it showed up and would not leave.

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Leaving the silly thing where it was would have been a bad thing, as would enticing it to follow us to our pond; too many coyotes around here.

We borrowed a dog trap from the animal control guys, and baited it, but the goose was suspicious of it, and would not go in far enough to spring the trap.

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We decided the trap woudln't work, so I took a piece of nylon cord and made a noose. The goose would come within a few feet of us to eat, so we set the noose out, tossed out some cracked corn and bread and waited. It was only a few minutes and we had our goose.

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We put it in the dog trap for transport.

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We took the goose to Greenville and released it in a pond owned and maintained by the city, where there were some other waterfowl. It seemed to be getting along well with its pond-mates when we left.

It must have been someone's pet that got loose and lost. When the noose tightened on its leg, it didn't put up much of a fight, and when I grabbed it, it quit struggling and settled down, and never tried to bite or even to get free.

Anyhow, it has a better chance where it is now.

Comments

  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Goose season opened today,I got mine at about 0730 had to walk about 200yards I was not the first, the hunter to my left was shooting up a storm hope he reloads ha-ha.I hunt on public about 1000yards out side of town so its a firing line but most people only hunt it in the early season then just a few hunt the whole season.PS ITS FOR SUNDAY SUPPER
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LUCKY DEVIL!!! Haven't had a good shot at goose here in NH for at least eight years. Then yesterday, two days after the close of the first season, roughly 20 land in my backyard, where a slingshot would bring a limit. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey thats when you throw out corn make a trail leading into your house into your kitchen into your oven . PS if you ever make it to wisconsin I can get you around some birds
  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If one of them that are out in the yard, gets any worse with her attitude.......she will fit in the oven.

    The gene pool needs chlorine.
  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Iconoclast, before my lovely wife made me buy a house in town we lived out in the sticks. Rule #1 was this, "if it is in the yard, it is fair game". Can your neighbors see you?

    Real men use little bullets.
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nelchris, thanks for the offer! I'm not sure how that works taking a shotgun through MA, NY & IL, but I'll remember the idea.

    7mm, it's getting crowded hereabouts. I don't think my immediate neighbors would mind (they're new), but I know the next place down called the F&G on me a few years back when I nailed some ducks out back during the season. Buncha damn squatters from Kennedyville.
  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have done a few hunting trips,cased gun in trunk ammo packed away in hunting gear I never gave it a second thought .How would hunters get to the field? crossing state lines should mean nothing ILL is ok so is NY not sure on MA.do you grouse hunt in NH ?
  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nelchris, you must have been at "the firing line" at the south end of Theresa Marsh, down the gravel road and a walk through the trees at the edge of the refuge. Gimmee a holler next time, I'm about ten minutes away.
  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timber No I was down by madison,that is horicon zone by theresa I hunt in the ext zone so I can hunt longer and more places good luck this season
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nelchris, I used to hunt grouse all the time until I got hooked on waterfowl. Upland hunting has really gone down hill here in the last few years, for reasons utterly unknown. Covers and feed are still there, but the birds are not.
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