Parkers for Argentina
 

We are headed back to Argentina at the end of the month. This year we are once again with Diego and Felipe of www.southernwingoutfitters.com and we will be shooting in NW Argentina at Las Termas near Tucuman. We'll do ducks in the morning and doves or pigeons in the afternoons. It is a lovely area with a mild climate similar to the Central Valley of California. Any place one can shoot ducks surrounded by orange groves is OK with me...:rotf: Russ Bickel and I shot there a few years ago. The blinds are literally 10 -15 minutes front the lakeside hotel. Our hosts have the only hunting on what must be a 50,000 acre lake. Once again the pleasant problem of "what guns to take?" raises its irrascible head. Unlike many outfitters who stock 12 and 20 gauge only, Diego is a 16 gauge shooter and has plenty of cartouches in 16. (27 gram loads of 8s for doves and 30 gram loads of 5s for the ducks) As no one bought it at Hidden Hollow, I think I'll take my 32" #1 frame 16g VHE and one of the guns I got from Russ' estate, a 30" 20g #0 frame DHE straight grip sans safety (which makes it convenient for volume doves) with .022/.028 it should have plenty of choke for the tall ones. I normally take Winchester M21s in 12 and 20 but I think this will be a Parker year:cool:

Don,

You do live the sporting life! Have a safe trip.

Mark

We look forward to your post hunt report Don. Good shooting to you.

Good shooting to you Don and hopefully you will include some pictures to go with that post hunt report.

may the ducks and doves rain in upon yall...sounds like a good choice in guns espically the 32 inch 16 teen... charlie

Two weeks in Africa in August...no Parkers however just a .470NE double rifle and a leftie M70 in .375 H&H...as Russ used to say, "Ah, the Sporting Life..."

Worse than Hamlet...
 

More hand wringing:eek: this happens every time...I just filled out the forms...I have to take a 12 gauge...I've learned my lesson too many times in the bush in out of the way places and shooting ducks on big water...I'll take my "travel" 32" A.H. Fox HE 12 gauge and the 32" 16 gauge VHE...:cuss: I may throw a couple of boxes of paper Western Super X coppered 4s in the duffel just in case there are some 'tall ones' as Nash would say...sometimes those flocks of tree ducks just cruise by at 45 yards...use enough gun...

Depending on where your going in Africa I'd take along a shotgun also. Nothing beats shooting Sand Grouse as they come to water in the evening.

Thanks Rich. I have shot sand grouse a number of times in the Kalahari and the Namib as well as ducks, geese, doves, francolin and quail. This will be my 7th African safari. We'll be right on the Limpopo in Zim near the border with RSA and Mozambique this time. Although it's 14day trip, I doubt I'll have much time for bird hunting. They'll be a shotgun in camp if I do.

I just returned from a weeks trip to Argentina, around Lincoln, about 6 hours west of BA. Shot 5 1/2 days and it was the best ever. Lots of open water and mucho ducks. Two guns and we killed 842 ducks and 5 pigeons in total. The limit with this outfitter, Patagonia Outfitters, is six boxes of shells a day. I took a 12 and a 28 with me but long shots and lots of wind so only used the 12.
This trip is getting more expensive every year with the 25% Argentine inflation and rising airline costs. May be my last.
Good luck!
David