Quote Originally Posted by keitht View Post
Thanks Richard and Harry for the info. I suppose the reason I have never been able to determine the exact date of hard-penning is that all of my goses were wild taken and you can almost never peg a bird's age down to the exact day.

I really like the "gos on an antler shot."
We can usually get within a few days when taking a wild eyass.

That's a moose antler I found up near the nest where I got this bird.