How rare is it and has anyone here ever shot one?
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Greater snow goose blue phase: update
Greater snow goose blue phase: update
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dirtysouthducks
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
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Did they have nearly all white belly and neck up to the head?
I shot a blue today that is measurably larger than the other snows and blues and it was the only blue with white belly and white under the neck. Just wondering if it could be a greater.
I shot a blue today that is measurably larger than the other snows and blues and it was the only blue with white belly and white under the neck. Just wondering if it could be a greater.
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pictures ???
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
dirtysouthducks wrote:Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
You sure they were greaters?
Don't see many greaters down here.
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2nd goose from top. Larger head and longer body than both the blue and snow beside it. Ross' at bottom.
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
dirtysouthducks wrote:Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
10 Greater Blues? They're almost non-existent. I know people who have hunted the Atlantic Flyway and shot Greater Snows by the hundreds their whole lives and have never killed one.
Looks definitely possible that's what you have though, Rob.
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arduckslayer wrote:Looks definitely possible that's what you have though, Rob.
Ditto.
From what I can see, it looks like a greater. Can you give a better close up of the bill?
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I will take better pics soon.
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Wingman, are those the ones that you confiscated from Bigwater, Tadpole and Champcaller? 
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Don Miller wrote:Wingman, are those the ones that you confiscated from Bigwater, Tadpole and Champcaller?
rob, you think that biggun i showed you could of been one?
that thing was a monster of a goose... wish i took pics.
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Mark, I wish you would've been there to here tadpole's comment.
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
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Wingman wrote:Mark, I wish you would've been there to here tadpole's comment.
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
137 i believe, and this...
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
You do know it will come off the foot, right?
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still trying to get this dam thing off.
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