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Karl, that sure has some lovely timber...
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The new Scottish boxlock is just the ticket, or maybe it was the dog!
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This afternoon, sunflower field, .70" rain yesterday, cool and windy today, AE Fox 16 with 30" barrels, 1 oz. loads of no. 8s, limit of 15 doves with 20 shells. First real shoot with this gun on a dove field. It's a hammer, but learned quickly I have to shoot it differently from my bigger guns. When this one hits the shoulder and the cheek, I trigger it. No long, smooth swings. "See the bird, mount the gun, kill the bird." Worked today, anyway. She's a sweet little long-legged thing. SRH P.S. Notice the difference in the coloration of the two left doves in the "front" row. Both are big, grown, mature doves, but the left one is shaded a buff brown color on the back, while the one beside it has a distinctly bluer head and tail. I've never had this explained to me, but I revel in the spectrum of beautiful colors of the birds as I retrieve them. Regardless the colors, all can do aerobatics that will screw the gunner into the ground at times.
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Karl, Nice wood on that Churchill!
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Thanks Mike for posting the photos for me. This hunt was October 19 in Michigans Upper Peninsula. My hunting buddy and I had a great day, both harvesting the 5 bird limit, all shot over points and out of the air. It was a special day for sure. Its been awhile since I have gotten the limit, but this day was a 1st where both myself and my hunting buddy each got the limit on the same day. A blizzard moved in the next day and I believe the birds could sense inclement weather coming, and were in a feeding frenzy. You got to have luck to kill birds and the Grouse Gods were smiling on us that day. Im going to savor it for awhile.....days such as that day are few and far between! The black and white pointer is Jill, my best bird dog ever and I was shooting my old faithful Browning superposed 20 ga.
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Buzz, Looks like you hade a great time up there. I was there the previous week and it was wet most of the week. Nice job on the limits! As far as wood goes, pretty is as pretty does. Karl
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It never ceases to impress me how well the grouse program in Michigan works. The numbers you guys show are incredible. Even though the state bird of Pennsylvania is the Ruffed Grouse, there is little to no management done to increase numbers or create great habitat for them. Every once in a while they will select cut a small area of public woods, but its never enough. It's really tough hunting. I wish they would jump on the bandwagon and follow a similar program as Michigan. Sadly, the big money maker in PA is white tailed deer (who, ironically would also benefit from clear cutting), and they seem to be more interested in building "food plots" than improving grouse habitat.
Kudos to the Michigan DNR and a very well done to all of you who hunt there with such success!
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Karl, fine looking gun. RAR, can't see the gun, but the results speak for themselves. Who is the maker? Buzz, Jill looks up to the task for a day to remember. Stan, that's about as good as it gets on doves. Caleb, form follows function and that old pump is functioning just fine. How much choke did you leave in the gun? Gil
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