Baxter Black goose "hunting" story

[SoonerP226]

I'd heard this many times before, but just heard it recited by Bax on Rural Radio, and I was motivated to find it online.

Goose season is on us again, when the great majestic Canadian honkers course through the pale winter skies like waves of bombers rolling toward Germany in World War II.

The goose population is on the rise. Even to the point that some city dwellers are complaining of goose detritus and effluvia (sounds like names for mythical Greek hillbillies) despoiling city parks, jogging paths and sidewalks.

To wheat farmers on the flyway, the problem is less one of sanitation and more one of production. They eat the newly sprouted wheat.

Keith farms in north central Oklahoma. Geese have been regular squatters in his wheatfields for years, but the goose population explosion is taking its toll on his crop and his patience.

Last season some of his city friends asked to hunt pheasant on his place. They were welcome, of course. Keith took them to the backside of his farm, where he'd left some cover, and dropped them off. When he picked them up later in the afternoon he drove by his wheatfields. New growth was peekin' up and adding unnatural green patches to the brown winter landscape. He also noted 500 geese had flown in and set up camp. They were busily plucking the sprouts.

"Boys," he said to his three Boone & Crockett buddies, "climb in the back and I'll take you for a goose run."

They did. Keith got on the inside of the hot wire, put it in four-wheel drive and started down the edge of the field. The hunters were crowded in the bed of the pickup. Keith was doin' 35 mph when he got broadside of the geese. He wheeled to hard to port, stomped the gas and closed the distance in a matter of seconds.

He was doing 50 miles an hour when he flew through the flurry of geese! The sky was black with them. The raucous honking was deafening. Mud was banging in the wheelwells, but he heard nary a shot.

In the blink of an eye he was clear of the geese, although it was impossible to see out the windshield. Apparently, in an effort to lighten their load, they had performed a cloacal evacuation as they sailed over the cab.

A glance at his intrepid hunters soon led him to realize why their guns were silent. They looked like they had been in an oatmeal storm. Maybe a Cream of Wheat drive-by creaming, or had stepped on a butterscotch mine.

Goose droppings splattered their Eddie Bauers, smeared their Land's End, coated their Cabela's, lambasted their L.L. Beans, splattered, smeared, blinded, bluffed and buffeted them as the blizzard of geese had flown over at ground zero.

Their spokesman removed his Smith and Wesson sunglasses, revealing the only bare skin on his face. He looked like a pallid raccoon.

"They shot first," he said. "We didn't have a chance!"

 

[ignerntbend]

Yep, Geese are becoming a weed species. Kill the hell out of them.
Don't forget to buy your federal stamp.

 

[dennishoddy]

Well, that was certainly some creative writing. Lol.

Good thing the GW didn't spot that.