Back in the early '80s we had lots of wild quail, and my bird hunting buddy and I would hunt regularly. He shot an old A5 which had a short barrel and open sights. He was deadly with that thing. I had a 16 ga. Powell double m/l and would occasionally take it for a hunt. He would laugh everytime I shot because I had developed the habit of squatting quickly after the shot to see if the bird fell cleanly. Couldn't see through the smoke usually, unless there was a stiff crosswind, but could usually see under it. When a close friend died and left me the Manton I sold the Powell. Since it, too, is an original it has no choke in either barrel.
When I used to shoot skeet with the Powell, at the NMLRA national matches in Friendship, IN, I would use the dipper. There was a loading bench at the skeet range there where you could keep all your loading stuff. The dipper worked fine for that. In fact, the first round of skeet I ever shot in my life was there. An old-timer helped me through my first round. I didn't know anything about killing the bird before it went past the stake and, on station 8 low house, I didn't get on the bird in time and spun around and smoked it going away. I was rather proud of myself. As I walked off the field the trapper grinned and said "Got that one the hard way didn't you?". I found out later about the stake deal, and was a bit embarrassed.
It is no problem to take a limit of doves with a m/l double on a good shoot.
SRH
