I like his choice of chokes it is also my favorite for most hunting.
I could live with 7s for everything from woodcock to pheasants.
Dogs is where we have a serious divergence. Labs are great retrievers, I've owned a couple, best dog I've ever shot over from shore blinds on lake Michigan. My assessment is 70 percent waterfowl and 30 percent upland an AWS is hard to beat. Switch those percentages around and small parcel upland I'd have the go with w hunting bred English cocker. All around Daht, GWHP,, my last one we hunted waterfowl along the PNW coast, next day left for Winner SD, hunted pheasant for a week and headed north for N WI for grouse and woodcock, he could switch gear with nary a bobble. Best marking retriever I've hunted over was a GSHP, we dropped seven woodies out of a flock and he retrieved six without a command, the seventh had drifted under a tree and just needed one hand signal.,
I've been blessed by wonderful hunting dogs.
