I remember when shooting a goose got your picture in the local paper if not one of the Twin Cities papers. I was so proud of my first picture and the awe of fellow classmates when one of the pictures made it to the Minneapolis Star. Now, geese are denigrated and considered problems rather than a rare sight.
There weren't many places to find geese regularly, the Lac Quie, Parle refuge was one. I leased some land out there with a bunch of others for several years before being hired by a guide service. That was a mostly fun time and it was pretty easy to get the one bird limit as there were over 150,000 geese on the refuge at the start of peak with numbers going higher at the peak. Of course, that was if the clients could shoot. If they could, a single family group would do it. If not, then one hoped for the flights to head their way. When the limit was raised to two birds we thought we died and went to heaven.
