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11-06-2017, 07:05 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Have often noticed, I that seem to miss the easiest shot I have all day.
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11-06-2017, 09:50 AM | #4 | ||||||
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good hunt and a nice gun to boot it seems as daniel said the easyest shots are the hardest to make....charlie
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11-06-2017, 02:34 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I had two Grouse and a Woodcock fly right at me this season and I missed them all
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11-06-2017, 03:06 PM | #6 | |||||||
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I think the absolute hardest shot that even some English shooting experts agree on is a driven pheasant that is tailing and quartering away from you. See an awful lot of powder burned on those misses on those. |
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11-06-2017, 03:56 PM | #7 | |||||||
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Think Station 8 Low House Rich - I break those birds shooting low gun(at my waist) with some regularity. .
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11-06-2017, 04:03 PM | #8 | ||||||
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While hunting in Maine this fall my pooch went on a perfect point and the grouse flushed flying dead straight away from me down a open old logging road. I pulled up and the first round failed to fire, so I quickly fired the second barrel only to have that round fail to fire. After cussing the loads I opened the gun to change them only to find I had failed to load my gun
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11-06-2017, 05:39 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I think I have missed every dead incoming shot over the years, one on a woodcock last weekend. If I could just tell myself to settle down and wait....
I have also missed on an easy bird where I forgot to load the gun... There are many other excuses I have found over the years hunting these clever little birds. I am thinking about putting together a numbered list of all the potential reasons I have missed, that way my hunting buddy and I can just list them numerically when we get back, like that was the old 2-1-7 (translation) 2-stepped in a hole, 1- miss mounted the gun, 7- flew right behind a tree.
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11-07-2017, 11:54 AM | #10 | ||||||
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To bad Parker didn't make triple barrel guns, that would solve all our problems--except for Steven's who didn't load his gun. Hate to say it, but have been there done that.
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