I don't know about a consensus, but the last close range geese I killed were at the tail end of a woodie shoot in a beaver pond. I was using 3" RIO Blue Steel #4s, and a -.005" "choke" tube (that is five thousandths more open than CYL) for the woodies. Heard a flight of geese coming up the creek and waited. When they cleared the trees I was ready, and had two big Canadas dead in the air at the same time, with their heads and necks flopped back over their backs. When I say close range I mean 25 yards or less. At 25 yards you can kill them dead as a hammer with most anything that is legal.
You lead a goose's head, not it's body. Doesn't take much to kill a goose's head at 25 yards or less. If I had been goose hunting I would have had more choke, but the aforementioned proved to me that we often "over choke", for the game.
SRH
