Your Toughest Shot -- Bird and Setting

[Big D]

Hardest shot? The first bird I killed. A drake ringneck over decoys with my poly-choked 20 gauge 11-48

[C.O.B.]

The first time I drove up the drive at Morrison Pines I thought the quail in those long leaf pines would be a cinch compared to grouse and woodcock in the Upper Peninsula. I could not have been more wrong

[James Brad Rhodenizer]

Since the quail are gone in my part of Virginia, I hunt grouse. The hardest shot for me is one flushing from a tree branch, the second hardest is one flushing behind me. On the rare occasion when there are more than one, picking the right bird to shoot is still difficult. Like a lot of hunters, I can hit the hard shot and miss the easy one.