Because it is what I did growing up, sitting on a bucket in a fenceline between a cornfield and a large stand of pines on a warm September afternoon with just a hint of fall and a Lab at your side, waiting for those feathered fighter jets to flit by and make sure you used all your shells trying to limit out. Mourning doves are one of the great tests of shooting flying.

Back then it was a Mossberg 500 20 ga. with a Polychoke and a 10# trigger pull. Now if I could still go there (time travel required unfortunately), I would be equally happy with a Perazzi 20 ga. or a Fox 16 ga - both with 30" barrels and Mod/Full chokes.

But now I am quite happy on a wet November day after the leaves are down following a Brittany after wary grouse and unpredictable woodcock, or working with a pointer and a cocker putting up Gentlemen Bob from the tall stuff under those Georgia pines - 16 ga. Fox and 20 ga. Arrieta for those respective tasks, both choked Sk/loose Mod.



Last edited by Doverham; 06/21/12 01:11 PM.
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.