Game & Fish West

LAST-CHANCE GEESE

he last two weeks of the dark-goose season in northeast Colorado might be the best goose hunting of the year in the region. It’s the one time when you’re not going to get shafted by the weather when waterfowling. If it’s nasty, giant honkers that have endured a long, cold winter will finally relent and slip down from Montana and Wyoming to more comfortable confines where food sources aren’t covered in a foot of snow. If it’s mild, snow geese, specklebellies and cacklers, the smallest subspecies of Canada geese, will begin filtering up from the San Luis Valley and points farther south to get a jump on the spring migration. It’s one time when waterfowlers are

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