Opening Day Goose Season

The opening day of goose season in our new pit blind in Chestertown. Saturday November 15, weather, pouring down rain as we are putting our decoys out. We get a the last few out and park the cars and the rain stops. We get into the blind which was filled with trash, beer cans, coke bottles, last January's blue plate special, and a years worth of spent shells. Anyway the blind is long can definitely fit 8 comfortably although it is a little short. When Richard stands up his whole upper torso is going to stick out. I will have to say there is no lack of geese where we are. I'm not kidding when I say there were 5-10 thousand birds that we saw. And to think we could not pull one damn bird into our spread. What could it have been? The 2 other blinds nearby had no problem getting birds. Here is my thoughts for what we did wrong. I did not think we brushed the blind adequately the blind has some corn stalks on it but it is in a bean field so that could have been a problem. Our blind was facing into the wind so maybe when they were flying over the blind they did not like what they saw. The other blinds were facing away from the wind so the birds were flying right into them. We only had 3 birds that we could have shot at. Greg had the closest shot, but he bought the wrong shells for his gun and it did not fire. Oh well there are plenty more weekends for us to figure it out. One more week till WV firearms season. As of right now the weather is looking great.