"I'm not a goose hunter, but I'd love to learn all the answers. So what are the answers?"
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS:
1: You have a north wind, which direction should your decoys be facing?
North
2: What is a layout blind?
A low profile "coffin" style blind. You lay on your back low to the ground and shoot from a sitting position.
3: What is a double cluck?
A goose calling method. A series of rapid clucking sounds that simulates excited geese.
4: What type of weather makes for the best hunting?
Crappy.
5: Is double-ought-buck better than number 9's?
Number 9's are for killing skeet and 00 Buck is for killing terrorists.
6: What is a "goose load"?
10 or 12 guage 3 1/2 inch magnum BB's are my favorite.
7: When do the migrants come in?
Every goose hunter can tell you the approximate date the migrating geese arrive in his/her area. Around here it is the first to second week of December.
8: How much does bismuth cost?
Over $2.00 per round. Goose meat is VERY expensive per pound.
9: What is a "flute"?
A style of goose call that resembles a flute. Easy to blow and very deadly in the right hands.
10: Which is better, a 26 inch barrel or a 30 inch barrel?
30 inch barrel, longer sight picture for high flying geese.
11: What is pass shooting?
Shooting at geese as they fly over, usually without decoys and near where they geese take off or land at low altitude.
12: What is a "sick goose"?
A sick goose. Sick geese are shunned and banished by healthy geese. We refer to the high single geese that will never come into decoys as sick geese.
13: What is a "spit call"?
An extreemly effective and hard to learn goose calling method. Basically a drawn out high pitched cluck used to really finish off geese that are heading for the decoys.
14: Have you ever hunted out of a sink box?
Trick question for JFnK. Sink boxes are watertight blinds which conceal the hunter just below water level. They have been outlawed since the turn of the century.
15: Describe two common decoy arrangements?
J-hook and "V"
16: What are "Bigfoots"?
A really nice brand of goose decoy.
17: What is the "point system"?
A bag limit method started in the 70's. Usually used for ducks, each species and sex of duck were given a point value. For exapmle Mallard drakes were worth 20 points and you cound shoot 100 points worth of ducks a day, or 5 mallard drakes.
18: What are "Whitefronts"?
White Fronted Geese. A species of wild goose.
19: What is this years snow goose posession limit?
None. They are so over populated that they are destroying their own nesting habitat in the high arctic. They need to be culled to save the species from a huge population crash. Here we can shoot 20 a day and have aa many in posession as we have freezer room.
20: What is a "Super Black Eagle"?
Benelli's fanstastic 12 guage, 3 1/2 inch magnum, semi-auto goose slaying machine. I'll be saving up for years to get one.
21: What is a "flapper"?
A goose decoy that flaps it's wings. VERY DEADLY! Mine have real taxidermied goose wings. I pull a string from the blind and it flaps it's wings. Attracts the attention of geese for miles around and looks like geese landing or stretching their wings.
22: What is "flagging"?
Waving a black flag from the blind to work just like a flapper decoy. Geese see the movement and think the decoys are moving. Flagging and using flappers can actually turn a flock of geese your direction from miles out.
23: What is a "double reed"?
See post #27
24: What is "goose jerky"?
Goose jerky. A lot like beef jerky.
25: When you see a flock of geese flying in a "V", why is one side of the flock longer than the other?
See post #14.
I hope you learned something about goose hunting tonight. If any PETA people read this, Vegetables are what food eats.
Sink boxes are watertight floating blinds which conceal the hunter just below water level. They have been outlawed since the turn of the century.
If you're using bismuth at $2/round, that's more expensive than .50BMG. I hope you enjoy eating your geese!