Looks like a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline?





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No more than 4 as Dad replaced that 1948 with a 1950. He sold the 1948 to my mother's foster brother who drove it into the mid-1960s then sold it to the mechanic at the Mobil station at Queen Anne Avenue and McGraw Street who restored it and added triple carbs and other tweaks to that 6-cylinder engine.

Also, in 1950 Dad got a 35 mm camera and took slides from then on so pictures from then into my college years are all on slides which haven't seen the light of day since the 1970s.

Correct choke selection for woodchucks would be R1 in the left barrel (Rodentia 1= VERY full choke) and R 2 Rodentia 2 = CYL or IC in the right barrel. Left barrel fired first to concentrate shot at the given distance usually encountered (c. 25 yds. or less); Right barrel at point blank range in case it charges. No velocity is too high and no shot size is too large for these bruisers! Similar to when felling a tree, have your escape path clear ahead of time.

And have a Colt double action .450 at the ready in case he launches up onto the elephant you’re riding.





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No wind due to the pines and downed trees, 204 Ruger for Woodchucks. Skeet and Improved Cylinder for Woodcock.

Woodcocks thanks

The few I have found in South Georgia get up and go! Tell him to wear snake boots. Mod and full in the wet timber.

If hunting in New England then I agree with Dean and others. Especially at the beginning of the season when the foliage is on you need to get the shot off quick and at close range. A tight choke will blow up the bird at such ranges.
Where I have shot woodcock in SC on the GA border I find the woodcock in much more open covert and thus whatever choke you like at longer ranges is good up to full.
But I'm new down here and have a lot to learn...

My best woodcock gun is a 16g VH on an 0 frame 26" choked Cylinder/Skeet

The places I hunt woodcock require fairly open constriction for the first shot and maybe a bit more for a follow-up. I use my Philly Sterlingworth Ejector 20 ga. with 28" barrels and the chokes are .006"R and .016"L. Works very well for 'doodles and also quail.