[fabsroman]

kt,

What amazes me is that two hunters with probably 6 shells between them only killed 3 birds. LOL My dad and I are pretty good about not shooting one another's birds, but sometimes he and I shoot what we think is the closest bird to us and it just happens that it was the closest bird to both of us. There have been a lot of occassions when we have dropped 5 birds out of a group of incomers and we only have 5 shells between the two of us (i.e., I shoot an auto and my dad shoots an o/u). Have had a couple of occassions where there were 6 birds down. If you hunt with your buddy enough, you will eventually learn not to shoot the same bird.

How far away are the other homes from this grass lawn, or are you worried about the homeowner's children? If the other homes are 150+ yards away, I would kill those geese in the front lawn without any hesitation, especially if the owner has no problem with you doing so.

Competing with live geese is really tough. I have had geese pile into a pond about a mile away from where I was hunting and it is nearly impossible to get geese to come into my spread at that point, even while using a Mojo Goose and every other trick I know. Such is hunting.

Went out dove hunting yesterday afternoon and killed 9 in a little over 2 hours. I had a couple of misses to start the day off, but after that I was on fire. I hardly ever missed and used way less than a box of shells. It was awesome watching the dog retrieve all these birds because I never would have found any of them because the soybean was over waist high and they were all wet from the rain. It was much more pleasant watching the dog retrieve them while I sat in my chair not getting my pants soaked from walking through the wet soybean.