[fabsroman]

It is hard to tell why geese won't come into a field at any certain time. Obviously, that guy killed his limit in the morning and left and you guys killed your limit in the morning too. Somehow, I doubt that calling skills had anything to do with it. Either the guy was planning on breaking the law in the evening by shooting another limit or he had different hunters with him.

I have hunted a field in the morning with a friend, killed 10 geese and 5 ducks, called two other friends and called in the afternoon so that they could kill there 10 geese. Sure, if you guys shot at every single goose that came by that day, I seriously doubt that any would have come in in the afternoon no matter how well you call.

I have had days where I hunted a field in the morning and couldn't get a single goose to come in, but killed my limit in the evening. I have hunted a pond where we killed our limit in the morning and then guys came in the afternoon and killed their limit too.

Geese can be extremely unpredictable. I have seen geese feeding in a cornfield one morning, set up my decoys the next morning in the same cornfield, only to have the geese go across the street into a grass field. If any of us knew why geese picked certain fields over others, we would be rich, and that is to quote a friend of mine that I hunt with.

If I were you KT, I would try to be friends with that guy instead of thinking of him as a bad guy. When I first heard of Big Daddy, a guy who posts on here rarely but is friend with WT Kevorkian and I, it was because he was goose hunting one of the farms I hunt. I was worried that he would over hunt the farm and scare all the geese off for me. At the same time, he was worried about the same thing with me. We hunted the last day of the season together and barely killed anything. The next year, we hunted the first day of the season together, a couple of other days together, and now we are pretty good friends and hunt together a good deal. I no longer worry about whether he is going to kill all the geese because he also knows that if we over pressure them they will not come to the field anymore. Once you coordinate things with other hunters, it is easy to have the geese keep on coming back. As far as I am concerned, I would rather shoot groups of geese with as many hunters as possible to kill as many geese as possible in the group and not educate too many geese, versus having a couple of hunters on several different days shooting into several groups of geese a piece on the farm. If 10 geese come in, it is more likely that 5 or 6 hunters will kill the majority, or all of them, versus 2 hunters with 6 shells. Everybody has fun and friends are made.

With that said, there are way too many hunters out there that want to do things their way and don't want to hunt with other people that they don't know. I feel bad for those people. Hunting should be about having a good time and making friends. Most of us hunt with friends, so why not make some new friends when the chance presents itself.