"You put them in different positions and you have a more lifelike presentation increasing your odds by 50 percent over just having those same decoys out there," he said.

Concealment is another issue hunters should consider as the season progresses. Layout blinds come with great camouflage fabric, but you must cover it and make it invisible from the air. This may even include cutting a blind-shaped hole in the field about six inches to a foot deep. A blind placed in the hole offers a very low profile. You still must smear mud on your blind and cover it with natural ground cover or artificial grass.

Geese are also conditioned to calling, especially bad calling and overcalling.

"Goose hunting isn't a science -- there isn't a formula to follow every time you call, you must vary it but also keep it simple," Peterson said. "Clucking and moaning and laydown feed grunts kill lots of geese. A lot of hunters overcall and you don't need to, especially as the season progresses because geese get conditioned to regular calls, that repetitious clucking you hear so often on TV and in videos."

Peterson urged hunters to separate the clucking noises into real direct clucks and it will end up sounding more like real geese.

Speaking of calling, now is a little late to brush up on calling techniques, but be sure not to put away your goose call after you finish hunting this season. Most hunters dust off their calls in September when it's much too late to get good with regular practice.

"Summer is the time of the year to start spending 10 minutes a day and you'll be amazed at the increase in quality of your ability to call geese in and your overall hunting experience," Peterson said.

Both Sawyer and Peterson said concealment, proper decoy placement and quality calling is the best way to make clean kills on geese that come into range. Both also have major problems with sky-blasting but admitted that for many hunters, it seems to be the only way they'll shoot.

"Once you realize what you need to do to get those birds to come in confident and get up close, you start making clean shots every time and realize that having those birds in your face when you pull the trigger is the only w