Steel Shot Special at work on Cape Cod

[Kevin McCormack]

Years ago some duck shooters dropped a 12 ga. VH overboard in Shinnecock Bay, Long Island. A year or so later some oyster tongers brought it up and finally succeeded in opening it up to find it was still loaded. The "oyster telegraph" got started and the owner came and got it and sent it up to Del Grego for rehab. The gun apparently spent enough time under the mud in the cold water that all it required was the usual disassembly and cleaning and the wood spent a good deal of time in a dehumidifier cabinet before being refitted to the gun.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

That's a great story Kevin. Fortunately for me the immersion was brief and only the barrels were wet.
So far so good..........

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

3 Eiders with my SSS. Unfortunately the Eiders have just arrived in Pleasant Bay from Canada and the north and the season is over.
I was shooting just opposite the lighthouse in Chatham, on the sand that forms the Chatham Bars made famous by the recently released movie "The Finest Hours".
Pleasant Bay is a great place to hunt and my guide, who is a lobsterman, drops me at cool places everytime. This was a good location but my shooting was poor.
Charlie had 2 great retrieves on the two Drakes that were cripples.