You must have an aim point don’t you? A black spot to aim at?





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Yes, I use a small stick on florescent dot made for rifle targeting with large chart paper.

Why MO doesn't allow an antique 8ga in the woods is silly, but a lot of the rules on what you can use, or not use here in MO baffle me sometimes...... It's like our former Muzzleloader season, it's now called "alternate" weapon season, and the mix of what's allowed or not allowed is just plain silly when you can kill a deer with an inline muzzloader easily out to two hundy.....

We are also limited to shot no larger than #4, which makes sense given that there are too many people in the woods who do not do a good job of identifying their target before they cut loose......

I'll probably use the #5 RST's in the VH for bird one, then use the LC Smith 16ga for bird 2 with #6 pheasant loads. :D

I heard the editors are fussy and real hard asses about the articles!! :whistle::corn:

We’ll see about that after the Summer Issue hits my mailbox...:corn:





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Dean....Do you hunt turkey in Vermont? How is the hunting up there? What gun do you use and what load?

My family moved from Andover to Wilmington in 1823. I go to Wlimington once a year to visit their old graves. I love Vermont.

I hunt almost exclusively in Vermont - deer, grouse, woodcock, turkeys, and a lifetime of memories. My Dad brought me to deer camp there in about ‘56 and I go back each and every season for long weekends and weeks at a time. Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is in my blood and I have no idea who I’d be if I never went there.

I have hunted turkeys on my cousin’s farm in Jefferson Ohio a number of times and just 3 or 4 years ago a friend and I have been deer and turkey hunting in MA about 50 miles west of Andover.

I have a 12 gauge DH with F/F chokes and a 10 ga. D Lifter with 30” Damascus barrels (chokes unknown but it kills turkeys) and I shoot off the shelf 1 1/4 oz. of 6 in the DH and 1 1/2 oz. of 6 in 2 3/4” loads made for me by Frank Cronin.

I have a lot of fun with either one. This year it will be the job of the Lifter as my DH is with Brian Board for a stock conversion (I hope).





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How close is your hunting spot to where the Benoit clan lived ?

I really don't know Craig, Vermont's a pretty small state. Do you know where they live/hunt? I know they say they do all of their hunting on public land and there's a LOT of that in Vermont.





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Dean, every time I read something like this, where a hunter is drawn to his "home" covers, I can't help but hear Gordon McQuarrie quoting Mr. President: "Always good to get away...always good to come home" (Maybe not exact, but close enough). I miss clear running water and mountains here in North Missouri (having grown up in Virginia), but it's home now after 41 years, and I find it's the best place to be come Fall. I keep thinking I'll go to New England to grouse/woodcock hunt some day, but it's hard to think of when, knowing I'd be leaving my own "home covers." Maybe that's why I enjoy so much when you (especially you) and others post your accounts of hunting in New England. I can experience it vicariously. I hope you have many more days in your Vermont.