These nasty-azzed sky carp....

[Big Muddy]

This dayum cold weather has pushed these f&@ers down here in absolute hordes.
The snows and specks are in greatest numbers but these gray bastages are here too.
They are just dumber and I killed this one cause Im pizzed.
They are eating my wheat crop to the ground. Experts say they dont hurt it as long as they only eat the leafs and not pull the plant up.
I dont wont to feed them even a dayum mouth-full.
Got two guys riding around trying to keep em run off.
Started off with bottle rockets but now resorted to shotguns and killing them and giving away the meat.

Heres what one of my nine wheat fields look like after theyve grazed overnight:

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[Thumper]

Ummmm .... what did it look like before?

[Big Muddy]

Put yo glasses on Thump....see the graze line from the grain bins down to the green area ???

[Thumper]

Oh ... had no clue what that was. Wow! Big difference!

[BarryBobPosthole]

I'll bet there's a lot of goose poop on that field though.

BKB

[Thumper]

Eddie gets tons of free fertilizer and he's complaining!

[BarryBobPosthole]

What I was thinking. I'm thinking he oughta pay taxes on that fertilizer that those federally protected flying livers left on his field. We prolly paid for that poop in our income tax! somebody send him a 1099!

BKB

[Big Muddy]

I asked the experts about that free goose sheeit fertilizer and they said its only a negligible amount.
I dont like killing anything just for the heck of it but these bastages gotta go !!!
Theyll leave after the temps rise but dayum, its colder today here in the Delta (21 degrees) than it is in Anchorage (41 degrees) !!!

[BarryBobPosthole]

Find one of those people who swear they can make a duck or goose breast taste like a sirloin steak and FedEx them about a hunnerd of them.

BKB

[Big Skyz]

One word: Tannerite!

[Big Muddy]

Sky, these bastages have gotten so brave, I don't think tannerite would help....they'd prolly just try to eat it.

I've noticed that when one of my guys kills one, and leaves it laying in the field, they leave that area alone.

Bastages are hard to kill, too.

[Big Skyz]

Well they may or may not ignore the tannerite, but at least you'll have fun trying to educate them.

[Niner]

Maybe ya need to put up a scare-goose.

[Buckrub]

Two words.

.17
HMR

[Thumper]

Two words.

.17 HMR

Are those words??

[Buckrub]

Yeah, if you say 'em outloud.

[Thumper]

Ha! Never thought of it that way.

[hotshot]

The speck or white fronted goose ya had pictured there is supposedly the best tasting of the goose species..... I can only verify on the Canada goose.... Not the best tasting meat, but makes decent jerky.
We are froze up solid here. Typically we are hammering the Canadas this time of year. With even the rivers locked tight, ALL of my go to goose spots are void of said crop damagers.
We have til Feb 5 to shoot the flying carp. Hopefully we can get some birds to move back up.
Interestingly, there are lots of birds held up just north of the in/Mi border. Some guys are shoooting them there in droves. Another concentration is in Downtown Ft. Wayne. If a few hospitals wouldn't mind, I could shoot a limit for about 5 days in a row, with a group of 5 hunters. We would definitely cut down the number of swimmer's itch epidemics that are sure to appear next summer.

[HideHunter]

Okay - I was hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to ask - If that ain't a speck - what is it? and whatever it is, I could cook it - and you'd like it.

[Big Muddy]

Okay - I was hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to ask - If that ain't a speck - what is it? and whatever it is, I could cook it - and you'd like it.

Okay, Hide, like Phole recommended, be looking for a FedX 18 wheeler at your doorstep.

[yellowk9]

I'll have to ask as well. You said snows, specks, and this gray one. The gray one IS a speck isn't it? If not, what is it?

[hotshot]

The species name is the white fronted goose. Since they actually have a white and grey speckled chest, the nick-name is a speck or speckled goose.

[BarryBobPosthole]

One of my mother's sage bits of wisdom that I'll never forget: "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

BKB