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Raimey, I’m in Maine USA. Where are you my friend if you don’t mind me asking?

I truly appreciate the effort & will gladly make it worth your while.

I reside in North Alabama, just South of the Tennessee River, South of Huntsville.

Serbus,

Raimey
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You must have some good quail and duck hunting. What gun do you shoot?

Ah, we use to have Quail & Ducks, but now we have a few Hooded Mergansers along with Resident Canadians, Whoopers and a smattering of Steak on a Stick Sandhills. It has to be cold for the Ducks to show & rumour is the temperature will still be in the 50s - 60s F thru the Holidays into next year. So coupled with the fact that we are quite dry, the Duck outlook is dismal. But these days I do the bulk of my wingshooting in Kansas. My chosen dispatch smokepole for the heavy lifting is a 1960s BüHag with a stout Swan's Neck. Built like a Tank and enough choke that you could hone 1/2 of it away & it still would be Full & Full. I will on occasion pull out a French badged Merkel stacked gun for more open chokes.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Here is a typical battery that I ferry with me in the States, Less the Emil Bernard sidelock with Boehler Eclair tubes and Zabala Hermanos locks. As I said the BüHag with the Swan's neck on the right does all the heavy lifting. The French badged Merkel on the the left is next. The A&D Body Action by Boronvik during the British Occupation chambered in 65mm is last...

I do fancy a Straight-Hand Stock.......

Serbus,

Raimey
rse