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Hello Crow,

Well not too many years ago I used to crawl for a quarter mile in half frozen water in the rice fields just to get a good shot at one of those birds. They may be a problem to you but they sure do cook up a good meal baked in an oven and served on a bed of dirt rice....... However if one will fly overhead low enough this Fall, I will do my best to eliminate at least one for you.

Be safe and have a great day,

ThomasT

Are they good eating? I see them flying out my way.

Apparently goose is really good eating it’s dark meat. I myself am not a fan of dark meat.
They are a big target. Shouldn’t be hard to miss. Crow

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Hello crowski,

The secret is do not cook them like a Turkey, cut the bird in half to eliminate the gut cavity. If you bake a whole bird the cavity will dry the meat out too much. A goose does have a "wild" flavor but if cooked correctly will be moist and delicious. Take the halves and lay flat in a Pyrex dish with a thin layer of Canola Oil and Butter, thick slices of a white sweet onion and seasoning. Cover the entire top half of the bird with bacon strips, cover the dish with foil and place in a pre-heated oven ( 250/275 degrees ) on the middle rack with a pan of water on the bottom rack. Bake until an internal temperature of 170 degrees fahrenheit is reached, uncover and continue to bake until a light golden brown color. Serve this on a bed of hot Dirty Rice, man this is gooooood. I was born and raised in Southeast Texas and have eaten several truck loads of duck and geese.

ThomasT

Geese are a problem here in colorado cities 'cause there no predators. The animal lovers don't seem to mind the geese chasing their toddlers and older children, nipping them and leaving the soft gushy, slippery calling cards. The city of Denver has had at least one round up using a giant net and gutting and preparing them as food for poor and homeless. But they should declare a limited season on them. Close the parks for a few days to harvest prior to nesting season. And issue licenses to air gunners but the community can't tolerate that kind of thing. The hue and cry over the capture by netting resulted in a suit by some do gooder citizens. They seem to forget about the bird flu spread by wild birds. The city parks geese population has reduce the area open to people cause the geese chase people out.

When people loose grasp of where food comes from they also loose any grasp of reality! 

A major problem gere in Ohio as well. The local community college pays thousands of dollars each year to have them removed, but they keep comming back twicecas fast as they are being removed. Nasty mess on all the sidewalks but all the fire ponds on campus keep them comming back. I offered many times tovusevan airgun when nobodyvwas around to scare them away but of course that is not politically correct so they keep rolling out money for nothing!! When I get them in my own pond, a few good shots in the butt scares them away, but if they decide to fight back, then they lose!! Their poop causes extreme alge growth in a small pond. Neighbor has them, thought they were cute, but know he cant get rid of them as they have numerous nests. Should be open season on them to thin the herd......

Years ago, I worked next to a golf course. One day I went out to the local pond and started counting geese. I stopped at 300, but hadn't gotten through half the flock. The Greenskeeper kept a couple of dogs that would chase them

The nearest golf course to me now uses Swan decoys around the golf course. I never see any geese by the decoys. Apparently swans don't like geese. Seems to work oh, you might try one and let us know if it works

I live on a small lake here in indiana also are a real pain.lazer bore sights and flashing led pier lights seem to keep them from nesting close to your house but its an ongoing battle

I've just gained a permission on a golf course to get their numbers right down when in season of course unless we get the licence to shoot because they're being a pest for public safety as they're attacking golfers. Couldn't think of a more chewy rough meat than canada goose tried it a few times and not for me at all give me venison or game birds any day 

Major airports use Green lasers to scare the geese away from the airport. I have tried it with geese and many other birds. Search it on net. Green laser - geese. There's an outfit called Agri-laser and they commercially sell them and teach people how to use them. You don't need to spend the big bucks they cost. Order up a green laser from the bay and discover for yourself. Start at $10 and go up to $100s.. The birds sees the light chasing them and they are scared away. They don't habituate. There's one video showing rank amateur's driving thousands of geese off a lake with an almost toy green laser. WARNING - learn about lasers and how to stay safe. One shot in the eye with a powerful laser is permanent blindness. Your eye reflex is not fast enough to protect you. Lasers reflect off glass, stainless milk tanks, high gloss paint, mirrors, etc. and depending on distance from your eye may be less damaging. When around the dairy I have to make sure I don't get careless and hit the dairy cows in the eyes.

I literally ran off a group of geese pooping in a small park, from my car with a green laser. Don't shine it in their eyes move it along side them so they can see it and sometimes they will just run fast other times they will take to flight.

From my experience. I cleaned out a barn loaded with Starlings with the laser. The birds pooping on the cows and feed created a situation where the farmer was losing animals. After I cleaned them out, without a shot darn it, they found a better place to roost somewhere else. I have done this with two different dairy farmers and screwed myself by losing a bird rich permission. I keep my neighbors chickens off my property with a green laser. So far pigeons seem less afraid of the laser than the other species. Crows, blackbirds...gone in a heartbeat. It has to be green. Has something to do with the frequency of the green light.

Again...read and study laser safety. Realize they can shoot hundreds of yards. They don't lose velocity and drop like lead rounds. There have been cases where people playing with lasers accidentally, and on some occasions purposely, hit the eyes of a pilot. If it's police helicopter they will follow the path of the laser and you will see a stiff fine. I was a search and rescue volunteer with a police agency and our helicopter got lasered and they saw it came from a church parking lot. They landed in the parking lot and enforced the law. It was a bunch of kids on a church sleepover outside goofing off. Still very dangerous and federally illegal. More so with a laser than a rifle, you have to know what your backstop is.

Lighter...I have woods behind my house and it's darn fun to shine the laser up into the woods in the rain or snow. Lots of reflections.

Fellow air gunners - I am frustrated to see repeated complaints about geese pooping on their waterfront property and/or damaging their grass. If you follow what I said in a previous post you can sit in your easy chair and shine a green laser out of your window towards the geese and they will leave. My experience with barns loaded with Starlings once or twice lasered they don't come back. The same is said for geese. 

Here's 3 brief videos of people using a green lasers to repel Starlings and Geese. It works! It's pricey if you buy the commercial grade lasers. But one not costing much more than $20 can be found on the bay and they work just as well. On a bright bright day the bay ones don't work as well because unless you pay bigger $$ for a powerful laser, the normal bay lasers are not bright enough to be seen when shown towards the birds. The way it works is the geese see the green laser moving towards them and they flee from potential harm. Watch these please.

To me it's almost as entertaining as watching pesting videos on the forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92R7_3xP7A8

Here's another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtjv1Orv18

And finally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-bGyo_m8Q

It's been said..."You Can Do This". No need to complain. Just do it!

The frustration is knowing something works and offering it to friends on the forum and a solvable problem continues to be expressed and few, if any, have tried it. If you want PM me and I'll provide a phone number for you and we can discuss the application.

After reading more posts here these birds sound like a real pain in the ass.