 Welcome back everybody Titus here mid valley mercenaries and today another reaction video. So grab that popcorn sit back on the couch and enjoy this video with me today. We are doing Thomas's video from Virginia Outdoors Unlimited early goose hunting 2020 there were honkers everywhere. I remember this video is an incredible video but it's been a while since I've seen it so hopefully you guys enjoy it with me if you do give this video a thumbs up and go check out Thomas's channel Virginia Outdoors Unlimited. I'm pretty sure he's going to catch me and pass me up here pretty soon on subscribers on YouTube but anyways let's get this video started. What's going on everybody I'm Thomas and welcome to Virginia Outdoors Unlimited. Today is September the 5th which means that it's opening day of the year. Like the subarrow in the background. One of my favorite days of the entire year but it's right around 4am right now and we're not actually headed out to the dove field we're headed out to the river to hopefully chase some geese and do something that I've never successfully done before which is have a goose hunt on opening day of dove season. We've tried it a couple of times and always got skunked so hopefully we can change that luck today. I'm about to go meet up with Drew and Eli we're going to go hit a stretch of river that none of us have ever floated before but I'm really excited to float the stretch of river because it looks really prime on the maps. I have some friends who fish down there and they said they've been seeing geese all summer long and we've had pretty high water for about the first week of our Virginia goose season so I'm hoping that we're going to be the first people floating down this stretch of river and hopefully these geese will be really stupid really unaware. Probably will usually that's how it is that opening day on the river. Shots on them I do want to say this is not our preferred style of hunting if we had the means to set up decoys along this stretch of river if we had the knowledge to do that we would do that but especially since none of us have ever been down here before this is going to be partially a scout for us just to learn the stretch of river and then also you know this is really the only way to hunt it the first time. We're going to be taking things slow trying to keep them safe I know there is a little bit of rough water along this section of river so we don't want to get ourselves in any dangerous situations but hopefully it'll be getting some geese and then wrapping it up just in time for dove season so stay tuned and hopefully we get on them. It's a pretty wide river I mean it looks like what it did to is go around the side try to sneak around on the river the closer you can get I think I could hear him. The closer you can get without him seeing you obviously the better because of float trips you just surprise attack according to he's going to get a good shot oh no what happened there you all get them. All right guys we got a pretty quick start to the morning came down from the boat launch and the first set of little islands that we went through there were some geese there actually a lot of geese probably over a hundred and they were pretty skittish they flew off downstream before we ever really got close to them but they kind of broke up and now they they were all flying around for like the past 15 or 20 minutes and some were trying to come back to the river they were just flying around so I think Drew just got one flock flew up the channel and Drew shot once so first shot of the morning one bird pretty good way to start the morning there's definitely plenty of geese down here that was pretty exciting and we're just gonna continue on down river. Get the old shot cam on nice shot nice you gotta lead those big boys too smokes that one right was behind that one okay so I didn't know if he got that second one but I think the other guy must have yeah there you go I was like is there was there even pellets in that shell yeah I know it is oh yeah boys first bird of the season it's it's so funny to get oh yeah new stuff you never do at the end of season before shooting goes that's good three out of four that water looks deep too there he is all right I'm gonna have to shoot this one almost certainly yeah honestly that's a good call to back up and just shoot it because that got him yeah I'd say you got him I mean but you have to do that though otherwise you'd never you'd be playing that game and eventually just end up getting away from you probably I know all right let's chill out but there you go that was pretty awesome if I do say so myself yeah got a couple nice ones that's fun look just a good view going down the river too yeah don't really matter we'll figure it all out no I've never seen nor near as many as they're seeing it in our uh I almost hit that one our river that's never a bad sign on a river float more down there too it looks like so hopefully we can find some in this boulder field get yourself in trouble those discovery 119s are more stable than you think I'm curious about the sun was uh yeah the sun's kill you yeah that's right the sun that's hard to see I mean what you're seeing on the shot that's probably what he was seeing uh sun screwed us on that one never done but this is a kayak's gonna be getting pretty heavy there oh there's a number three on the day for me when I took those three shots at that flock up there I crippled him and he had been coming down I'd been chasing him he'd stayed like 60 70 yards ahead of me and finally he got down here this slower move and stuff and I was able to catch up to him but uh there's been geese all through this whole boulder field here which we kind of expected and we just honestly have executed this poorly when you get in these boulder fields what you really want to do is try to split up and get people on different channels so that you guys don't all just push the birds down because you really want to get someone down below and then maybe them push them back up there is a tactic to hunt the river that's for sure totally agree with Thomas on that the way he's saying to do it nice shot that was a great shot and see here's the thing geese are so big so you think that you don't have to lead as much as you do because it looks like they're going slower but it's only because they're way bigger than ducks you still got to lead them just like ducks they're moving a lot faster than you think it's kind of hard to tell in that shotgun though how far you let him can y'all fly or what oh oh oh oh come on dude get a shot like he might have one jam oh see uh I've had that happen and you think well these ducks aren't gonna fly it's just because they're stupid because it's the beginning of season two would have his gun out and ready probably got both those and then he has a banally click that stinks well good shot at least the other guy got one I guess my gun just I have had that happen oh my goodness I've had that happen on the river you're like almost don't know if you want to shoot because they're you're getting so close and they're not flying you're like that was like maybe it's a pet duck or a park duck and then they end up going then you're scattering you literally let me paddle 10 yards from him yeah he's inside the river it's definitely that's a good little looking little rubbish moths in it get ready Drew's gonna shoot and knock these down to us so much tougher guys shooting out of a clock while it's moving right real it's so much tougher oh if you're at the wrong angle you can totally get yourself there goes more did you hear the pellets hit I think he missed those all right well we finally got a break in the action for me to update y'all we are now sitting on eight geese we just came through about a two mile probably two and a half mile stretch of boulder field and there's been geese pretty much all through it I don't even know how many geese we've seen now quite honestly I have to say it's probably been 250 300 plus I mean there's been way more grease than I'll ever see in our river system every rocker island we've come by so I got four Drew has two Eli has two or no Drew has three and we probably should have a few more than that I've had some poor shooting I think Drew's had a little bit of poor shooting maybe Eli as well some really stupid residents along here too so it's made it made a fun morning so far we're about two-thirds of the way through our float it's like eight o'clock nine o'clock so we should be done pretty much just in time for opening day of dove season so we're gonna keep on going down river and hopefully we find a few more geese see them on the point wait wait all right let's go get him oh again oh that's so frustrating I've had to happen certain shells so we got one right there another one drops and click right there oh my goodness I think four yeah I'm going down below that's so frustrating what do you say they I think they knocked down more than those two birds because he might not he might there's one okay I think that's number five on the day for me there that's an incredible day well we just got four more right there they were sitting at the tip of that island and we came down and dumb residents being dumb residents they let us get about 30 yards probably even closer than that probably 20 yards and then flew straight back up towards us both me and Eli's guns jammed after the first shot or else I think we would have had all six but uh we dropped four we're on 13 no 12 geese now they did drop four I think they both scotch doubled that was a good that was a good volley right there geese so we have a couple more bends in the river and hopefully we can get a few more let me get close that's a tough angle to shoot out to going backwards and shooting the other way ah sorry about that his boat's getting heavy and I'm trying to stay here and think what their limit is I thought maybe they're a high limit too like us in California he's got a lot of birds in the boat come on right Adam it's too high angle and a cock if you're a right hand shooter wherever someone got one but that's hard if you're facing the way he was facing try go right you can only go so far to the right I mean he basically got one chance to shoot they're getting all their birds this should be a fun one I do floats down the river but I need to do a long one that's a pretty good little rapid spot there like I said those old town discovery 119s actually do really good job they feel a little bit it's hard to explain because they feel like they tip but you can't you can literally jump in deep water into him bend them all the way over the edge and still not tip them they're very stable just you get if you're not used to being a kayak you can give you that feeling that's really what tracks were really well and he was fast to the water too beautiful beautiful spot in the river nice when they shot was that just a bird scene you know well Eli and Drew just got another pair so I think that is one of theirs okay but I'll put him in my kayak for now all righty guys we are off the water now it's about one o'clock that's an amazing float do this pretty quick because we need to get out to the dove field but we ended with 17 geese today this was probably the best float that I've ever been on probably one of the better goose hunts I've ever been on really did not know what to expect going into this but this stretch of river really produced awesome beautiful stretch of river so we'll definitely be out there again that's an incredible day for a river float I mean I don't know how many miles they floated but that's a good day yeah that's a really good day for three guys if 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