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Steve,
It won't hurt to try to entice me. I'm not sure what I want but 2.75" chambers and at least a modified choke would be part of it. 28", pistol grip, light, I don't know. Tempt me.

Doug, there might be something to your The Color Purple Hypothesis. I get mighty tired of red and green hulls. I'm hoping to shoot blue tonight, if it just tries to dry up a little...


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Brent,

Righto! If it doesn't quit raining that dove with the olive leaf may take on a more modern application. : ) We were rained out most of the first week, so a limit of trout in the mornings was in order before heading to the fields. Fin & Feather.

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Trout in Tulsa? That's cool.

The high tempts today and yesterday did not quite make 50F and it never stopped raining. I'd like to test some patterns this afternoon and maybe shoot a couple of rounds of trap, but it's got to at least dry up a bit.

And last weekend I was whining about how hot and dry it was. ...


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Brent,

I just found my post from 10 years ago on "Fin & Feather" and updated it..lol.

Hope you get a chance at those Iowa birds before they head this way!

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Re-read McReynolds’ article this morning after breakfast. We’ve all heard the various reasons for the 16’s decline. Most of them have been touched on in this thread. McReynolds has a different take that I’d never thought of but rings true.

“It is a gauge built for the field and nothing else.

The near demise of the 16 gauge is what helped it become the perfect upland gun. When it fell out of favor during the second half of the 20th Century, it became just unpopular enough that no one tried to turn it into something it wasn’t.

The fact that it never became a popular target round meant that the 16 remained light and ready for the field. Its unpopularity during the rise of steel shot meant that no one bothered to lengthen its chambers.”

I can see that but after 60+ years of shooting the gauge I didn’t need any convincing.

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Originally Posted By: Doug Fore
My theory on the 16 gauge popularity is the PURPLE hull..the combo of Red and Blue Mixed! grin

"Effect Of Colors: Blue Boosts Creativity, While Red Enhances Attention To Detail"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142143.htm#:~:text=Red%20boosted%20performance%20on%20detail,under%20the%20red%20colour%20condition.

Seriously, I can vividly remember each hunt and almost every shot after dropping in/extracting a pair of Federal Purple shells/hulls....good memories..

Is there perhaps a cognitive connection? crazy


Funny, my first decade plus with the 16ga was done almost purely with Winchester AA 16ga Red hulls, and the occasional green Remington Express.

Lately my most common 16 ga hull has been RMC brass.


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I love them.



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Great pic! Beautiful birds and sweet 16. We don't get 'Timberdoodles' down here often, hoping to see some during our December dove season.

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Doug, I really like your post of mixed bags like that. Sadly, there is no fish that I want to catch in the teal ponds I am hunting lately.

I think every hunting and shotgunning forum on the internet has a long thread on the demise of the 16 gauge.

I feel attracted to this one, except for the Cyl/Cyl chokes. Looks like a fun gun to rehab
https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-f...=101411702#lg-4


I see a lot of nice guns with wood extentions of several inches. I just can't pull the trigger on them.


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We get a few doodles down here in the SE corner of the US. Gil

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