Hunting Snow Geese With The “White Goose Wizards”
In 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the Light Goose Conservation Rules. The new regulations where established due to an overabundance of light geese which threatened aviary habitat. Under the new order, hunting of snow geese is dramatically liberalized and the season is extended through to April.
Fewer people know more about hunting snow geese than Tony Vandemore.
In this Ducks Unlimited interview ‘White Goose Wizards’ Tony does a Q and A on harvesting snow geese.
DU: What does one do with 2,030 snow geese once they’re in the back of the truck? NOTE: Vandemore, Keller and their friends killed 2,030 snows in spring 2006. Really.
Vandemore: We had people in place – needy families, church pantries, soup kitchens – to take the birds before we started hunting. Snow goose is by no means poor table fare; it’s actually very good. With snows, you can pick out the (grey) juvenile birds a lot easier and concentrate on those. But I had folks lined up who would take just about every snow goose we could bring them.
“Realism. It’s all about realism.”
