What Horicon was like....Goose City

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What Horicon was like....Goose City

Unread postby kurt » Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:23 pm

My grandfather in law has a farm that borders Horicon Marsh. I was talking to him the last couple of days while doing some food plot work. He got this picture redone. He used to have one in the goose shack where he rented out blinds till someone stole it. Well he got a hold of another picture and had it enlarged again and is in process of framing it. I forgot to ask the year but enjoy.
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Unread postby Florida » Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:20 am

Very cool. In the 80s I lived near there. I used to dress up in my dad's camo and sit on the edge of my neighbors corn field holding up a corn cob trying to bait some in. I was about 6, so I'm not sure what I would have done if one got close enough to grab, but he would have been in trouble.

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Unread postby hunter_mike » Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:34 am

That is cool!

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Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Fri Sep 25, 2015 5:37 pm

Amazing photo. I plan to be hunting the geese plus the northern opener this weekend.

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Unread postby Beauford » Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:53 pm

This picture is simply awesome. I remember this picture as a kid, I think my Dad has a book with this on the cover.

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Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:46 am

Awesome picture kurt!

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Unread postby feutza » Sat Sep 26, 2015 5:21 am

Very cool

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Unread postby Singing Bridge » Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:01 am

That really is quite a picture. 8-)

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Unread postby kurt » Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:44 am

Beauford wrote:This picture is simply awesome. I remember this picture as a kid, I think my Dad has a book with this on the cover.

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In 1966, Edgar Mueller's single most-famous photo, Goose Explosion, was
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I think this is photo your talking about. Edgar Mueller may have even taken photo I have above, I'm unsure. He was a bus driver for Mayville and photographer for Mayville news. He took lots of photos and having his photo published really sparked a lot of photos similar. Sometimes it hard to see that as incredible when you see it everyday. A funny story I got told about Edgar is in winter after fresh snow fall he slowly drove bus in ditch and got it stuck to take a picture of the bus and all the kids heads out the windows. I imagine he always carried his camera and had some incredible photos.

I did a little digging on grandpa's photo and got to hear some great stories of cut corn fields completely black from geese not a hint yellow corn. Then the Edgar stories too where pretty funny.

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Re: What Horicon was like....Goose City

Unread postby kurt » Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:48 am

I believe I was told Edgar Mueller's Goose explosion photo was taken off of why 28 by the new visitors center.

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