3 Frame 32" BHE - Blooded
 

I was very fortunate to acquire from a friend, #200784 a 1922 BHE 32” F/F pistol grip splinter DT on the coveted (for myself and many other waterfowl enthusiasts) Heavy 3 frame.
Our second season opened this past Saturday in Western New York and the Vanderbilt marsh presented many opportunities. I took the BHE on my maiden voyage and blooded it properly with 2 Big Black ducks and 2 Drake mallards. – a fitting start to what I hope will be a long relationship on late season plumbed up big ducks. Kent Matrix 1 3/8 oz. 2 ¾” # 5 took them down.
I have some special (to me at least) guns, but this one ranks very near the top!
Thanks again Bob J. - I thought of you often during my hunt!

A very fitting gun! Beautiful!

Mark,
That gun looks right at home in the duck blind. Although more of an upland configuration this BHE shares the same floor plate engraving pattern.

Very nice Mark!

The engraving on both of those B’s appears to be the work of Frederick Anschutz.





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Looks like that gun found its perfect home and caretaker. What a beautiful gun!

Beautiful gun Mark, the start of many memories in the blind!

Probably the best combination in non-tox loads for big ducks over decoys. Have used lots of it and it always delivers the goods.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to view this gun, it's a dandy IMO. Congrats Mark !

I forgot to mention - the gun is cast for a left handed shooter - Which I am - Again, I feel very fortunate our paths crossed.

And as I found out Sunday in the early light fog and light snow, the gun is hell on merganzers too.:rotf:

Mark that is awesome!

3 frame 12 gauges are great and underrated in my opinion

Now you need an AHE or AAHE or A-1 even :whistle:

Oh those tasty mergansers!! Even taste more like fish than fish do. They make a great fish chowder. If you're a bear!! :rotf::rotf:

Beauty is only skin deep with merganzers.

I got into red-breasted mergansers this morning. They always put a smile on my face and a dent in my shell box. They decoy beautifully and provide lots of shooting and retrieving opportunities. Their arrival is typically a sign that good duck hunting (divers!) is getting underway.

Lightly sautéed in olive oil, mergansers make wonderful and healthful dog food.

-Victor

Beautiful gun, Mark!

-Victor

BWAHAHAHA!! Dog food being the perfect words!

I wouldn't waste one of my precious bismuth or Nice Shot shells on one of them.

I killed a pretty drake merganser years ago and had it mounted. The mount was nice but my wife said it was ugly and not a duck so it had to go. I gave it to a friend who loved it. End of story....

We almost always let them pass, even though they are trout fry killing machines. One friend of mine makes it his highest priority to kill as many as he can for just that reason.
Spending $3/shell to collect some dog food is not optimal.....unless you have a new to you gun ......and its first light.....and they come screaming into your spread and........well..... then there is a high probability the dogs are getting a fish duck treat at dinner :p

duck hunting is one grand sport I no of nothing that will make you stand in waist deep water at 20 degrees and wait for a shot at a lone duck and your hands are so cold you cannot push the safety off to get a shot and the next morning your out there doing the same thing.....charlie

Mergies definitely have a place in the Anseriformine universe! Wonderful pet food (loaded with those essential fish oils the Eskimos keep telling us we need to eat more of) plus great harbingers of the last big push of diving ducks down out of Canada. Also a perfect combo picture if you bag one of the more colorful species along with a wood duck ("Woodies and Hoodies"). Also a great "revenge duck" for the annoying non-hunting morons who are always bugging you for "one of your premier roast wild duck dinners that you NEVER gave ME!"