It isn’t easy to catch geese because they can run faster than a person, as well as ly away. The Inuit had a special way to catch geese a long time ago. You may have seen rocks piled in a certain way to build small corrals on the land around Cambridge Bay. These are very old and I will explain how they were used.
Our ancestors would pile rocks to make a stone house that they could gather geese into. The geese had to be tricked into entering this kalgik, or stone house, by having a person who could lead them by honking the same way a goose does. Have you tried to imitate geese? It is not easy for everyone to do well, but when it works, the geese can be trapped in the stone house with their human leader. Once the geese follow their decoy into the kalgik, another person would block the entrance and then it was easy to kill them for food.
I have heard that the geese were killed by twisting their necks and then throwing the dead birds up and over the walls of the kalgik. I have never heard of using clubs on the birds. This is how I have heard geese were hunted in the olden times, but I myself have never hunted them that way.
Another part of the hunt started before herding the geese into a kalgik. The Inuit used their qajaqs to herd the geese from the water to the land first. I don’t know how many qajaqs were needed for this. After the geese started walking on the land, then the Inuit would walk them towards the kalgik.
I think this way of hunting geese could be a lot of fun instead of shooting them with guns the way we do today.