Last Saturday we decided to go goose hunting on a field on state route 37 and this field has worked pretty well on past hunts. We had been hunting this field almost every weekend for the past month and we killed a lot of geese out of it. This made the decision easy when we were deciding where to hunt. Saturday morning we had everything in the truck and we were ready to roll. I had made the decision that we would get up early and try to shoot some of the ducks that fly right at shooting time. Once we got into the field around 7 A.M. we got everything set up and ready to start hunting. We got the truck out of the field and it was time to hunt. Right at the beginning a few flocks of ducks were flying but none of them gave us a look even though it was very foggy and the weather seemed perfect for killing some ducks. At about 8 we had some geese start flying. Geese usually don’t fly until later but they were flying all morning in the fog we had. We had geese flying all over us from 8 until 9 but we couldn’t get any to land. They had it set in their minds where they were going and they weren’t going to stop for us. At about 10 A.M. we had a flock come in to our left and I was on the left side of our setup so I got up to shoot but my gun caught the side of my blind and cocked it back. I was able to load a shell and get one shot off and kill one goose before they flew away, Cory also shot one of the geese in that flock. A little later we got a flock to come in on the right side and Tim and Mike were able to shoot two of them. Tim got up to go get the geese and once he got out to them and grabbed them a flock of geese came up on the right side. We yelled at Tim to get down on the ground and we started calling in these geese. The geese gave us a look but I had heard a different flock coming up from behind me so I looked to see where they were. I watched this flock as it came up to my left and when they got next to me about 20 yards straight to my left I saw on the second goose in the flock there was a neck band. All I saw was a silver collar around its neck and I knew it was a band. At that moment I knew I had to shoot it. My heart started pounding like crazy, I had more adrenaline pumping in me than I had ever had. Tim was still lying in the field so I knew I wouldn’t get a better shot. I was thinking I better not let my gun catch on my blind again like earlier, so I moved my gun around and then jumped up to shoot. Before I knew it I had shot 3 times and the goose was on the ground. I put my gun down and the only thing I could manage to say was “neck band, neck band” the words kind of just blurted out but they weren’t very comprehensible. I ran to the goose as fast as I could and grabbed it by the neck. It was still alive so I spun its neck and broke it to make sure it wasn’t going anywhere. At that moment Cory and everyone had made it out of their blinds and were wondering what the heck happened. Cory told them he thought I shot a neck band, but when I grabbed the bird and held it up they knew I did. I brought it back and everyone was excited. My body was still shaking from all the adrenaline but I didn’t care, I was so excited. Cory took some pictures of it but we had to get back to hunting. I put the bird down and got back in my blind. Every time I got a chance to poke my head out of my blind I would look around and check to make sure the goose was still there, and when I saw it I had a huge smile on my face. I was like a little kid on Christmas who got the gift he’d been wanting forever. I couldn't stop smiling or being happy. It’s hard to explain the feeling of happiness that I had. All of the work I had put in this goose season finally paid off when I got that band. Now that I got my band this year I’m going to try and get some good video the rest of the year and maybe shoot some more geese. Who knows maybe I’ll get me another band.
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