John, I completely get it, after my back injury I had to switch from busting tail walking in with dozens of duck and goose decoys in the cart too hunting smaller spreads close to the truck. Now I appreciate just being there, and working a few birds into the spread with the calls is a big time bonus, nothing better really. I'd do it without a gun if it came to that, and it may, because recoil has been hurting me for the last year or two. I shoot an original Benelli SBE which isn't very recoil friendly. This is my next gun, pricey as hell, but they are the softest shooting 12ga that I have ever shot.
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That was between two of us Bear.....out here the limit is 7 ducks, 25 snow geese and 10 dark geese which can be either 10 Canada geese or 10 Whitefront geese/Speckelbellie geese or any mixture of the two to get you to 10 geese. That is a one day possession limit per person, and it's legal to have a total of 3 possession limits as long as they were killed on different days. So you can hunt 3 days or more on a travel hunt and legally bring home 3 possession limits. That would be damn near impossible to obtain limits of ducks and geese out here, ducks or geese is totally doable but not both unless you have BIG money to hunt the million dollar clubs, and they rarely take limits of both ducks and geese on the same day. That is way too many birds to clean in my opinion, I'm happy with 3-5 of each. Or a limit of ducks and a few geese, or vise versa,. I'm not greedy these days, if I get a few of each I'm thrilled and have plenty of meat. I think our goose limits are insane, that is way too many birds.
