What's your experience with ...

[mobirdhunter]

You owe it to the bird to shoot it hard with enough shot to kill it at the distance you decide to shoot. I'm sure you can figure out what that distance is, but just remember, pheasants are tough and can carry lead. Unless you want to feed scavengers, make sure you either shoot close with a cylinder bored 20 or not at all. I always count the birds that I knock down and don't find as part of my bag limit. It hurts to cripple a bird as noble as Mr. Rooster.

And I still recommend track shoes and a dog that breaks at the shot.

[TxHuntermn]

Originally Posted by Karl Ferguson

I just bought a VH 20 that letters as having 28" Cyl & Mod. I measured the barrels and the bores are both .617 The right barrel has a 3 1/4" long choke and has .004 choke nearly to the end of the barrel then goes to cylinder bore. The left barrel has .015 choke.

I'm headed to Kansas pheasant hunting this week and don't have the time to pattern it before I go so what is your experience with the performance of a 20 ga cylinder bore choked gun ?

I will be shooting RST 7/8 oz #5's and just curious what to expect from the right barrel.

Thanks

Growing up, one of my Dad’s pals and hunting buddies hunted everything he hunted with one gun. It was a Iver Johson Cycle Works single shot 20 gauge with modified choke. He killed the crap out of wild Pheasants in the Texas panhandle with that gun. Just shoot the left barrel, pretend you are shooting a single shot, and you will be fine. I agree with most everyone here, that a far flushing wild bird is not for that cyl. bore, but modified sure is.

[todd allen]

[QUOTE=Kevin McCormack;261727]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

My advice would be to bring a different gun for late season pheasants.

Sound logic, Dean!

That old Browning just makes me want to go shooting! That would be a fun duck blind gun.

[Bill Murphy]

Table training a new puppy is a real bitch sometimes. However, Kevin has found that table training a cock pheasant is a piece of cake.

[Harold Pickens]

I have a vh20 with 26in cylinder and mod barrels and adhe 16 with 26 in cylinder and mod chokes. I have shot plenty of preserve pheasants with both of these guns, but I would not take either one of them on a trip to Kansas. I was in Kansas last January in the next to the last week of the Season flushes were few far between and at good distances. I was generally carrying my gh16 choked mod and put full or my 4E Ithika 16 chokedmod/full ,a much better choice for the Prairie