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Man I love Parker 20s!
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you are Wright about what they can do. I have killed 8 to 10 geese with that 7/8 oz load of bismuth 6s and lots of ducks too. I do like the 6s in in the 20 but haven't tried 5s. More to come i hope. Scott
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12-17-2018, 07:47 PM | #5 | ||||||
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#5's was all I could find in 2 3/4" 20ga. Scott so I went with them and they did fine. The older I get the smaller the bores get and the outcomes are the same.
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12-17-2018, 09:00 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Nice. That bird makes the gun look small. My nephew makes jerky out of his geese and it's outstanding.
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I had a bad day about 40 years ago shooting a 20 from a blind: hitting but not killing, not even finishing off cripples properly on the water. Discouraged, I blamed the gun, of course, and didn't use a 20 again until 12-15 years ago. I believe discipline counts a lot in picking shots. Reminding that a 20 isn't a 12 made the 20 a pleasure to use.
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12-20-2018, 10:13 PM | #8 | ||||||
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It seems to me to be asking a lot of a 20ga with at most maybe 7/8 oz of 4s to reliably kill a 10+ pound heavily feathered fat coated big boned bird at 35 plus yards. Yes there is the dramatic head shot but absent that crippled geese is the expected result. Feet down, flaps down, cupped wings in your face at 15 yards-yes; otherwise 35 or more I believe we owe a noble bird a bit more respect. Others may well differ.
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12-21-2018, 10:40 AM | #9 | ||||||
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When I was introduced to waterfowl hunting some 50 years ago I shot at the bird. It took a while to realize that if I concentrated on the head and thought of it as a dove I would kill cleanly. You can kill a goose with 3/4oz of 8 shot from a 28 gauge at 25 yards if you hit the head. That said, I think the 20 gauge is minimum on decoying ducks and prefer a 12 for passing birds.
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All this talk of waterfowling with 20's has me dreaming of getting out there. Unfortunately I just don't see an opportunity to do that anytime in the near future. :-(
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