OK. My recommendation then is IC and Mod. For one time hunt out here IC and Mod will serve you well and will leave you with a useful gun back home on preserve birds.
Pheasants walked up with a good dog and just one or two others in the Western Dakotas and Eastern MT, even Western MN will flush most often inside of 20 yards, as will Sharpies and Huns early throughout their range in the Western Dakotas and central and eastern MT. Later the Sharpies and Huns will test your shooting ability with flushes most often at twice that distance.
Pheasants driven will most often be 30 to 50 yard birds.
With the exception of Chukkers, the mountain grouse will be had inside 20 yards.
I think that should provide you with an idea why most of us who live here own at least two guns, one choke slightly tighter than the other.
Do you intent to hunt others and if so, when and where.
