Snow Goose Migration Alberta: Spring Hunt Day 2
Snow Goose Migration Alberta: Spring Hunt Day 2. Day 2 of the spring snow goose migration in Alberta. Brad Fenson and crew hunt the prairie with Benelli shotguns, landing banded birds and testing gear in { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/benelli_usa#person", "name": "Benelli USA", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/benelli_usa", "description": "Benelli USA is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/54635051-87ef-48d0-a108-966f14085c72.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/snow-goose-migration-alberta-day-2#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/snow-goose-migration-alberta-day-2" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/snow-goose-migration-alberta-day-2", "headline": "Snow Goose Migration Alberta: Spring Hunt Day 2", "name": "Snow Goose Migration Alberta: Spring Hunt Day 2", "description": "Day 2 of the spring snow goose migration in Alberta. Brad Fenson and crew hunt the prairie with Benelli shotguns, landing banded birds and testing gear in", "articleSection": "Hunting", "articleBody": "Spring snow goose migration in Alberta puts hunters directly under one of North America's biggest waterfowl highways, and Day 2 of Benelli USA's \"Freelancing The Flyaways\" shows exactly why the prairie draws crews north every year. Outdoor writer Brad Fenson and his crew set thousands of decoys, weathered a snowstorm, and dropped a banded blue goose — all in a single afternoon on the Alberta prairie. In the Greyhive video, Fenson hunts alongside his longtime hunting partner Richard Krap, who was on his first-ever trip to Canada. What followed was the kind of day that keeps waterfowlers chasing the migration: a rare blue phase snow goose, a band, a stud Ross goose, and birds cutting in \"hard and aggressive\" as the wind kicked up at last light. This is a field-documented look at how the spring snow goose hunt plays out in Alberta — the conditions, the gear, and why, as Fenson puts it, it's never really about the numbers. Key Takeaways Day 2 of the Alberta spring snow goose migration was hunted in roughly 15° wind chill, one day after a snowstorm shut them down completely. Richard Krap dropped a blue phase snow goose that turned out to be banded — a double rarity — on his first trip to Canada. Krap made the kill with a single 3-inch shell, and also took a dark, mature Ross goose the same hunt. The crew ran Benelli shotguns and set out thousands of decoys, including \"socks,\" hunting from chairs inside the blind. Brad …