Show field stream int VERNOM VERNON still goo seless SHIELDS you really don dont t have to be nuts to be a goose hunter but it certainly helps among other bilings this rolling out of a nice warm bed at four a in to go goose hunting is no joke especially when youre you re in your early thirties like I 1 am once and sometimes twice a week ever since the season opened I 1 have been doing that very thing to date no goose As I 1 have said before I 1 used to get more geese than I 1 do now hunting them systematically no kidding I 1 have killed geese one day oh happy memories I 1 got three what s the matter the last couple of years I 1 just dont don t know I 1 don dont t seem to b be e able abl to get a shot any more I 1 ha have v the best full bodied decoys that money can buy and I 1 still have that world famous goose call on this call I 1 sound more like a goose than a goose does I 1 always go where the geese are supposed to be have been or are going to be I 1 have painstakingly built cho ice goose blinds and I 1 have laid in them and have practically froze to death from daylight until quit ting time still no geese I 1 have studied and put into use the best methods of placing decoys I 1 have covered myself with sheets mud water sage brush wheat stocks and tumble weeds no geese I 1 have crawled through hundreds of yards distance met and talked every single goose in this valley I 1 can t get any closer to them and they won t come any closer to me maybe they can smell me but no one ever told me 1 I had B 0 that bad please can t someone tell me what Is wrong why can t I 1 kill a goose goosek I 1 go down to erda or lake point and lay in the gram grain fields all day and then while I 1 im in down there a big flock of geese flies directly over in my y house only about twenty feet in the air I 1 go down to the tom crandall andall Cn duck club where the ge ese hang out once in a while and and put out my decoys while I 1 im in in my blind a flock flies directly over my parked car at quitting time I 1 pick up my decoys and st art back to the oar car five ini minutes after I 1 ve left the blind in come the geese and they sit down in the exact spot I 1 had left about five minutes manutes before ducks by the score sit down in my goose decoys I 1 im in afraid to shoot the ducks on the account of scaring searing the geese that are near by then the ducks have left too result no geese no duck idocks ducks will decoy into my geese decoys but the geese won t decoy into my duck decoys woe is me all the geese do is come over and try to talk my goose decoys into going wi wl h them I 1 in m telling you this goose hunting business is driving me to the booby hatch each week that I 1 get skunked I 1 swear I 1 wont won t go out again but come a day off and away I 1 go my family have long since quit asking if I 1 got a goose when I 1 return from a hunt they just look at me and smile faintly you know that smile the kind they give to someone who doesn doean t quite cover all his marbles someday III get a goose and when I 1 do I 1 think the mayor should proclaim it a hoi hol day and have the city give me th the e reception of a returned hero you know with banquets and all the trimmings on friday nov 26 the state officers of the utah Sports sportsmen mens s association met at the tooele thoele city hall principal order of buc business iness was to outlay plans for the coming election of new officers and also to prepare legislation to be pre dented to the next session of the state legislature As mr hack miller of the salt lake deseret news has pointed out that if you get caught in killing a doe during the regular buck hunt you 11 get fined a hundred dollars but it if you kill a man during the same hunt you get off scott free we need some new legislation to correct such things as this as well as stricter fines for fish and game law violations |