Late season Duck hunting
 

The late season opened yesterday. Someone beat me to the ditch opening morning, but this morning the ducks were back. I was hunting with at CHE Bernard gun today. I wonder when the last time it was hunted. This was my first time hunting it.

Nice Jeff good going!! Ball grip CH Bernard very nice, tell us more about the beautiful gun.

Nothing quite like blooding a gun on your first outing with it... and nothing but beauty in that photo -- natural and man made.

The gun is a CHE with 30" Bernard barrels. It is choked full and extra full. It has 2 5/8" chambers. Serial # is 140767. It has great shooting dimensions, with lop at 14 1/4" and dah at 2 1/4". It is on a 2 frame.

Makes me want to smoke a fine imported cigar.......Thanks, Jeff!

Nothing like late season mallards and a Parker to bring them out of the sky. What loads were you using?

I was shooting some of the old Bismuth Company Upland Game Loads in #4 and some
Eley VIP Bismuth shells with fiber wads in #4. Several years ago I bought ten boxes of the eley's on double gun shop. I bought half of what the gentleman had. I am kicking myself for not buy the rest, as I am down to three boxes left.

Beautiful gun Jeff - that must be one of the very latest Parker Grade 4 guns made with Bernard barrels.

I especially like the border engraving!




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good hunt and a fine gun also makes me want a fine cigar i aint had the urge in lots of years...charlie

I always go back and forth on what the best size is for bismuth shot duck hunting and it seems like when you hit them with #4 you have a hard hit duck that's likely dead and not one your chasing around the slough. At longer ranges, 40+ yards, which are typically what mallards are at #5 and #6 just don't seem to have the knock down power.