On Sunday, October 9th, the Mechanicsville Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, on behalf of VA Ducks Unlimited, hosted the VA State Championships of duck and goose calling right here at our own Green Top Sporting Goods store. This is the second year that we have hosted the VA calling contests. There were six contests in all, a duck and goose contest for youth, a duck and goose contest for VA state residents, and a duck and goose contest for residents of all states. Each contest had three rounds. The callers for … Read More »

OK, you’ve found these geese that you’re gonna hunt, and you’ve gotten permission for or checked on the legality of hunting the spot that you’ve chosen.  Hopefully you are on the X.  Now it’s time to talk about tactics.  First and foremost, these are not the geese from up north that come down in the winter.  These are local birds, and they know the in’s and out’s of the area.  The one thing we have in our favor is that a large number of them are young and dumb and … Read More »

As we move into the month of July, our resident geese have regrown their flight feathers after going through a summer molt during the last weeks of June and first weeks of July.  The young of the year are getting their adult plumage, growing their first flight feathers, and getting ready for mom and dad to teach them how to fly.  It’s time for us to start figuring out what areas the non-breeding adult birds have grouped up in during the summer, and what areas have produced a bumper crop … Read More »