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On Weds, I contacted Ben Holten from North Flight Waterfowl. Well Ben, Chad and Shane searched practically all of Eastern Washington to find some huntable birds. My dad came up from Nebraska for a visit so I surprised him with a little goose hunt. Well, Ben and the boys found some geese. Met him at 4:30am, got the the field and the work began, we had to get all of Ben's "little buddies" (over 80 taxidermy decoys) out of the trailer and into the field in an orderly fashion. About 20 minutes before shooting time we were swarmed, I mean swarmed by the ducks. We were standing up out of the blinds and the dang things were landing 10 yds from us. Must have been a 1000 of those birds, mallards, pintails, who knows what else was in there. So we get into our blinds and the ducks decide they really want to come back to say good-bye. Well it's now, you guessed it--shooting time--we let the roar of wings die down and the back draft settle down. Ben says pick green heads. Well we jumped them and got 7 of them. A legal limit about 1 minute after shooting started. Well, we are admiring the ducks and Chad sees the first string of geese appear about a mile away. They come in straight to us. The problem was there were about 3-4 flocks that joined the first one, so we have about 100 geese circling us, some birds are diving into the decoys and some are floating above us. We had geese landing, geese taking off and geese on final approach. Ben tells my dad to take the first shot. We get about 5 geese in that volley. Well the scenario repeats its self but each time more and more geese are involved. I bet the last group we took there were 500-600 birds, we didn't need that many to limit out so we were done by 7:20am or so. 20 geese and 7 ducks........Thanks Ben, Chad and Shane it was really a fun hunt to be out on with North Flight Waterfowl. my head is still spinning from watching geese circle. It was so totally awsome, I didn't need to shoot a goose to have had a great time.

Bruce B.
Yakima WA