Those numbers don't reflect the challenge of snow goose hunting. Snow geese can live 12 to 15 years or more, and mature birds can be amazingly wary. You need those bad days to give meaning to the good days. Good days are usually the result of heavy cloud cover. Shadows kill you.
Wind is a bonus.
Scouting is the key to successful goose hunting, he says. Scouting is a luxury available to hunters in only a handful of states. In North Dakota most private land is not posted, which means hunters can travel the back roads at dusk looking for large concentrations of feeding geese to hunt the following morning. Pete usually won't mess with a field that has fewer than 10,000 birds. If the geese feed undisturbed that afternoon, the odds are good they'll return the following morning.