Dang. You don't shoot with your teeth. Find a new dentist. There's a good one on this board.

My dentist actually knows Dr. Truitt !

My dentist isn't to far from you I think . He's down off route 1 where 288 runs into it in Chesterfield !

My Uncle in Law is originally from Sumter South Carolina , his pop used to raise Boykins !
Always liked those dogs but never got one . My hands were always full with a Border Terrier or two in the house , a couple setters in the kennel and most times a couple rabbit beagles in the kennel as well .

Now I'm down to a single Border Terrier . Might just give some thought to a indoor Boykin . Might just be the ticket for dove and my new found intrest in cornfield goose slaying !

I always thought it would be kinda cool to run a pair of English setters for grouse that were stanch to wing and shot . And at the same time keep a Golden Retriever at heel to go get the birds that were shot . Ran a pair of setters quite a few times but never got the Golden to try that !

DEFECTIVE GUN
 

Must have been hit in the head today, maybe too much medication. Took a defective 16 gauge gun out today and it had a bad day. Not many doves but most survived. Don't count the shells. Three times I chose the right modified barrel and the doves tumbled only to regain their orientation and fly on to a nearby tree. Don't know why the gun did not hint to me to use the left full barrel. Must be the small barrels that made the bird look bigger and closer than it was.

And you chose to bring a "defective" Fox instead of a Parker because........?





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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;176785]And you chose to bring a "defective" Fox instead of a Parker because........?





Oxycodone for pain. I try to kill a limit with all of my guns (mark the tags with an L), but this one has proven difficult. In theory it should be the perfect dove gun, 16 gauge .020 and .039 shooting 1 ounce 2.5 inch shells with 8s. I've taken it twice and it seems that it is not to be.

Jerry;
I have a couple 16 Foxes and they seem to like 7/8oz. and 3/4oz. better than the 1oz. loads. I know my shoulder does. If you don't reload, try RST's Falcon Lite in 7/8oz. 7 1/2's. Nice looking Fox. Are they 30" tubes?

Have you patterned it?
You're right, it should be the perfect gun for the job.





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I load all of my shells for my doubles. I have patterned it and it does well with the one ounce load which I had worked up and tested for psi. I just don't shoot this gun well. They are 28" barrels. This was another rescue gun I found in a shop, in rough shape. I rust blued the barrels, trigger guard, triggers, etc. and polished off the hot blued receiver, had cracked stock repaired, recut and refinished. Lots of effort into the gun and that's why I was using it. With enough doves, one can kill their limit with any gun whether one shoots it well or not!

The Parker of ...
 

autos. Hunting legal at daybreak today but could not get up. Only had two and a half hours to hunt when I got there so I cheated with John Browning's design that he said gave him more trouble than any other gun, leaving VH 16 in the truck. Still the best auto ever made and I love them. Took the old 12 bird limit and quit.

jerry looks like you can hit with the old browning...i ve got a 20 browning in the safe but aint shot it in years just to many old doubles i guess..but some day i m going to get me a 12 ga humpback for sure..i toted a old model 11 rem. when i was a kid it was cly bore 26 inch i killed more game with that thing than any other gun i ever owned...charlie

How Things Change
 

Went to a newly chopped corn field last Friday. Not a single bird but a couple hundred yards away through the woods lots of shots. Went there and two teenagers were slaying them in another field. I went to the next pole away from them and got four with the VH 16. They killed twenty-two. I asked if they were coming back the next morning and they said no. Up at 5+ a.m. and there well before daylight excited about the limit I would get. A heavy fog came in and no doves showed up for two hours. I saw only six. It is amazing how they disappeared; or maybe the teenagers killed them all.

Anyway the little VH 20 killed the first one with one shot, the second, then the third, then the fourth and fifth fell with one shot each. I felt I could not miss. As I stood up the sixth bird came by. I aimed and could not believe it did not fall, so I fired again. I only saw the six doves. Dejected that I had messed a perfect day, leaving I drove the four wheeler up toward the next pole to where it had flown. There it was as dead as a door-nail. Probably won't do it again, but the little IC/IM 20 VH did not miss!

Unfortunately I didn't bring a Parker on this Texas trip.

jerry that old rem model 11 was like your little gun i hit every thing i aimed at....wish i had that old gun back...charlie