New grouse gun
 

New to me 20 ga VHE got the job done this weekend. I did miss a really easy one in the wide open because I decided to dump both barrels when it was a screaming crosser at about 5 and 8 yards :banghead:

George Bird Evans once commented on a miss saying he had fired both barrels before a sane man could have mounted the gun :rotf:

nice gun and a hunt to remember

Have often noticed, I that seem to miss the easiest shot I have all day.

good hunt and a nice gun to boot it seems as daniel said the easyest shots are the hardest to make....charlie

I had two Grouse and a Woodcock fly right at me this season and I missed them all:rotf::rotf:

That is probably one of the hardest shots there is since it is rare in the way most of us in US hunt, especially in an upland setting. Its also a hard shot to safely set up at a sporting clay range, so you just don't see it too much. Unless you hunt a lot of those Continental Pheasant hunts. You may see it some in a dove field as well. Its just a tough shot to pull through and lose sight of bird and then pull the trigger. I found it was just better for me to let em pass and get em as they are even or going away if you its a safe shot, but then you could be faced with one of the hardest shots.

I think the absolute hardest shot that even some English shooting experts agree on is a driven pheasant that is tailing and quartering away from you. See an awful lot of powder burned on those misses on those.

Think Station 8 Low House Rich - I break those birds shooting low gun(at my waist) with some regularity.





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While hunting in Maine this fall my pooch went on a perfect point and the grouse flushed flying dead straight away from me down a open old logging road. I pulled up and the first round failed to fire, so I quickly fired the second barrel only to have that round fail to fire. After cussing :cuss: the loads I opened the gun to change them only to find I had failed to load my gun:rotf:

I think I have missed every dead incoming shot over the years, one on a woodcock last weekend. If I could just tell myself to settle down and wait....
I have also missed on an easy bird where I forgot to load the gun...
There are many other excuses I have found over the years hunting these clever little birds.
I am thinking about putting together a numbered list of all the potential reasons I have missed, that way my hunting buddy and I can just list them numerically when we get back, like that was the old 2-1-7 (translation) 2-stepped in a hole, 1- miss mounted the gun, 7- flew right behind a tree.

To bad Parker didn't make triple barrel guns, that would solve all our problems--except for Steven's who didn't load his gun. Hate to say it, but have been there done that.

If I didn't have misses, I wouldn't need ammo.

Edgar - That's the best one I've heard in years!! :rotf::biglaugh::rotf:





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Thank you Edgar, it has all become clear to me why i bring so many shells.

I don't miss but whats this ammo thing???:rotf:

I took a 20ga out hunting and a box of 28ga shells, that didn't work out so well:shock:

You're scaring me, Rich.

Ammo? We don't need no stinkin' ammo. I've been out after turkeys and deer so many times with an auto that had two in the magazine, unloaded to go in the truck, and forgot to put a round in the chamber afterwards that I don't care to remember them. Now I constantly pull the bolt back all day long to make sure.