“conservation season”

This month many waterfowlers are more interested in BB loads than college BB teams. That's because the Light Goose Conservation Order creates a spring waterfowl season rifle with opportunities to bag birds—if you’re mad enough, that is.

The notion that snow geese are unfit for consumption is widespread, but with a little preparation and some imagination, you’ll never look at a snow the same way again. Here’s how you do it.

Just what kind of shotgun is really worthy of being deemed a snow goose rig? Here are a few things to keep in mind before you head out to protect the tundra.

To kill the light goose, you must chase the light goose. Such a truth leads five waterfowl hunters and one dedicated dog cross-country.

Check out Web Managing Editor Shawn Skipper's take on day two of he and Assistant Editor Jon Draper's South Dakota snow goose hunt.

To really “save the tundra," you’re going to need to get serious. Here are a few recommendations.

Adding their guns to the throngs of hunters chasing snows in South Dakota, online managing editor Shawn Skipper and assistant editor Jon Draper participate in the light goose conservation season on the central flyway.

It was around 9 a.m., and a dozen or so birds had decided that they’d make a close enough pass at our decoy spread to elicit a volley. I’d loosed two shells when my concentration was broken by something thumping down into the reeds beside me.