Big Friend Ten and Mallards

[Mark Ouellette]

I was expecting Canada Geese but a pair of Mallards dropped in to visit my trusty Chesador "Radar", me, and my Big Friend Ten. It's a DH made in 1891 and still doing it's job at 50 yards thanks to #4 Nice Shot. I can now apply for the Parker Doubles pin...

Mark

[Dean Romig]

Great pictures mark. I vote for no. 1 & no. 4

[Tom Brown]

Mark, what frame size is that nice DH 10? T.

[scott kittredge]

NICE :bowdown: i do to love my 10 too!!!!!

[richard lambert]

The dog looks like it does not like having the gun pointed at him or is warning the ducks to lie quietly! :rotf:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5287&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1286763048

[Mark Ouellette]

Hi Tom,

My BFT is a size 3 frame. It broke a lot of clay targets during the summer.

Mark

[Mark Ouellette]

richard,

Can't you see! My dog shot the ducks!

Mark

[Jay Gardner]

50 yards?:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

[Mark Ouellette]

Jay,

My laser range find listed 55 yards to a decoy near where I shot the ducks.

I dropped 5 geese in early season at or near the very same spot my spread. Oh, and for those geese I used an LC Smith 12 gauge with 1 & 1/8oz #2 Nice Shot. I shot the ducks with 1 & 3/8oz Nice Shot #4 with my 10 ga. In hindsight I should have used #2's.

I like Nice Shot and love my Big Friend Ten (or BFT for short).

PS: Please don't hate me but I have a decoy spread in my pond which is 20 yards from my front porch.

Mark

[Dean Romig]

Mark handles the big 10 ga. guns quite nimbly. I shot with him at Hausman's when he shot "low gun" on Ernie's "hunter's clays" course which simulates ruffed grouse targets - in fact, the flushes and flight paths of the clays were more like those of ruffed grouse than anything else I have experienced. Hausman's is my very favorite course. Mark scored very well on that course with that gun.

[Harry Collins]

Mark,

I want to know and see more about your boat. I am in the midst of a boat build for waterfowl hunting. Mine is, with the stretch of the imagination, going to be similar to a Barnagat Bay sneakbox.

Harry

[Mark Ouellette]

Harry,

The boat in the photos is a 2-man Brant 2-X sculling boat from Lock, Stock and Barrell, of Michigan, www.lockstockbarrell.com

One sculls lying on thier back using a long oar extending from the strern of the boat. I shot a Greenhead a day prior by sculling into range. I would have posted a photo but I used an LC Smith Long Range.

The market hunters of old sculled their punt guns into range...

Mark

[Harry Collins]

Thanks Mark. My boat is much like their Scooter.

Harry

[jerrybucci]

very nice love the scull boat:bigbye: