I am not sure the ones who find a nice home, like a golf course,
really migrate. I know the Canada Geese that lived at National Geo in
Gaithersburg stayed in that lake year round.
I thought they had an extra goose hunting season in parts of the northeast
for the non migration birds.
Don't know what happened to this, but I hope it got adopted. We need to get rid
of a lot of those pests.
Times get tough, a pellet gun will feed the family a lot of goose.
I am not sure you could kill a goose with a pellet gun. It wouldn't
penetrate the feathers on the body and a head shot would be tough if
they were walking around.
Lots of powerful pellet guns these days. Close to a 22. And they stand
around enough to get head shots.
Well, now that you mention it! Besides, most of the *******s will let you get
pretty close to them before walking away.
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Golf ball missile?
I keep a 7-iron handy when walking by the *******s. Ganders can sometimes get
upset with folks bothering them.
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I kind of remember an incident in the past where a golfer faced
criminal charges for whacking a goose on a golf course.
After a quick search of Google news, it looks like there have been
several criminal goose incidents with golfers although not the one I
sort of remember from the distant past:
Well, I wouldn't whack one unless I was being attacked. Gosh, I'm no goose
murderer!
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Animal rights people are out of control. Like when they wanted to
prosecute the baseball player who killed a seagull who flew in to his relay
to 3rd base. I think that was in Toronto.
A friend living on one of the higher traffic roads in the area witnessed a car
hit a deer. The deer was wounded to the extent it could not stand. My friend, a
hunter in the past, slit the deer's throat so it would quickly die.
This was observed by a neighbor across the street from him who called the cops.
The neighbor made a cruelty to animals complaint, and my friend had to go to
court. The judge, apparently with a decent head on his shoulder, threw the case
out. It still cost my friend some bucks and time.
Unreal.
Back in the 70s, Washingtonian Magazine had a story about a 3d world
diplomat's wife seen dressing out a road kill deer on the GW parkway
one morning. In the days without cell phones she got away with it.