How to Hunt in a Snow Goose Blizzard

From: Field & Stream - Wednesday Oct 13,2021 02:01 pm

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Kill More Snows Over the Decoys

Lesser snow geese weren’t born yesterday. In fact, a lot of them weren’t yet born 10 or even 15 years ago. Those old adult birds leading the flocks migrating north have seen it all several times over, making them among the wariest of all waterfowl to hunt. Give them the slightest reason, and snows slide off the end of a decoy spread, or hang high overhead at the edge of range, or just fly on by, oblivious as passing clouds. Yet if you go enough, you’ll hit one of those special days when geese pile into decoy spreads like commuters shoving their way onto subway cars—and the shooting is like nothing else in all of waterfowl hunting.

Snow goose hunting ranks as one of waterfowling’s toughest shooting challenges. Shots can be long, and you’re often shooting from your back. And while an unplugged gun with a magazine extension does make you potentially much more dangerous to geese, it takes time to learn how to make the most of all those shells in the gun, too. Here's how it's done.

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