I shot that Flues twice last season, on opening day of dove season and one day for snipe. It is my only twelve gauge double gun. I got it last year for no particular reason other than a three hundred dollar price tag. I shot it those two days basically to make sure it went "bang" when I pulled the trigger. One odd thing I do is rotate gauges each season. Last year was a twenty gauge year. The year before that I shot sixteens. This year will be twenty-eights and smaller. There is one cheap Spanish gun by Jose Uriguen and a Sterlingworth in the pictures. They are twenty gauge guns I bought last year and I shot them more than anything else. The four-ten I used only for soras and the Grulla only got shot three or four days. The L.C. Smith was also new last year. It is a sixteen gauge and it only got used one day to test it for function. Two of the birds in the bag that day were a right and a left. It won't get shot again until the 2010-11 season.

When I hunt ducks and snipe on the same day I shoot the twenty gauge 101 below for the snipe. In Florida if you are hunting waterfowl you can't have any lead in your possession. That is the only gun I feel comfortable shooting steel through and I won't do that any more than I have to. Even going back to my vehicle at the landing and switching guns and shells wouldn't make me legal.

















Each year we have a "Snipe Rally" during the season. For the last couple of years we have been giving a bird strap to one of the attendees or the host. Don't let the looks of that motley crew fool ya, there are some guys in that group that know how to shoot birds.