wake up call
 

ok fellows it s time to put the coffee pot on and get some good info or stories about parkers this morning...i ve rubbed on the old 8 ga till midnite she s beginning to shape up..never have had a gone redone but may this one..charlie

a wake up call at 10AM :rotf: how rural life has changed.

I'm afraid no good Parker stories here Charlie, been trying to decide on either getting another Parker project I have been watching on one of the sites or picking up an interesting Birmingham gun (no name on it). While I go over a Marlin 90 16 I may unload to help finance that. Anyone who says a Parker is complicated never looked inside one of those- the safety/trigger block has two anchor points and articulated levers just to do that.

He is giving the rest of us a chance to sleep in.

Charlie did I miss the pictures on this 8ga.

If it is the one Charlie got from Mills, I have pictures of the gun from about four years ago... but I don't know what it looks like today.

or is this his new one

in which case, Charlie-- did you figure out your issue with the lock and cocking?

I think Charlie is up to three 8 gauges, if my memory is correct

I shot (or tried to) shoot ducks Saturday morning. Did some redneck proof testing of Damascus barrels with Rio Bismuth and they passed the test. No. 5 shot just does not do the job on big ducks though. It was a beautiful morning with my son, so that was all that counts

Had trouble killing ducks with #5? One of my favorite sizes for duck. There have been seasons where I literally shot nothing else. I've also killed quite a few incidental geese with it. What trouble were you having?

I shot a Ruddy duck on Currituck twice with No. 5 and the guide had to finish it off. Shot another one with 2's and it was DOA. I was surprised myself. Several other shots this season which I thought were hits but the duck kept going. Could be my poor marksmanship, but the ducks looked hit.

What were the distances you shot them at Mills? What is your gun(s) choked? Have you patterned it/them wit #5 at the longest distance you would ethically shoot a duck at?

When I shot ducks as a kid it was with #6 shot because they would be mallards, blacks, and woodies jumped from creeks while pheasant hunting in the adjacent fields and brushy stream edges. I would never use #6 for any ducks besides rising puddle ducks.... never for incoming or pass shooting.

30 yards. Chokes vary, but the two Ruddy ducks were with the same gun with the same distance. No. 5 it was still wounded after 2 shots and one shot of no. 2 and the second was dead as a doornail. Like I said, it surprised me too

in steel i use bb or 2 and you either kill em dead or a clean miss in most cases in my case clean miss... like mills said main thing just getting out there and having fun...charlie

no i have not tore down the 8 ga with the hammer holding back issue...some day soon...its not the mills gun with the issue...charlie

Clean kill or complete miss is what I aim for. I hate wounding birds.