Chucker Chasen
 

Well my Buddy Rich and I have spent the last couple of days chasing Woodcock ,and I still had the Dogs excercise birds in the Fly Pen , I said to Rich ,why don't you come up Sat. morning and I will put the Chuckers around the property and we will spend the Morning hunting them ! Well the morning was crisp with a nice layer of Frost glistening in the Sunshine ,I got out the Quad and headed for the pen around 7:15 AM ,spent the next hour driving the fields and gulleys putting out the Birds . We didn't want to just go back over the land and shoot them so Rich came up a little after 10 :00 AM and we visited a bit and headed out about 11:00 ,we hunted for nearly three hours but came up with 14 of the 17 Chuckers that we put out ! Not like hunting Idaho ,but Great work for the Dogs and good practice with our 410's ! Russ

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Now that looks like fun!

It was a gorgeous day here too. 29 degrees here just befor sunrise.

Hey Dean ,Yeah ,about the same here ,just a gorgeous day !!!!!!!!! I shot my last limit of Woodcock for the season yesterday , and Rich scratched down one ,just enough for another batch of my Famous ,Woodcock Pate'. I increased my self imposed limit of 12 Timberdoodles to 15 Birds this year ,the state gave us an extra couple of weeks of season and I figured ,the little fellars must be up a bit in number ,hopefully " Three more won't hurt " and I am really enjoying excercising that new 410 , just the perfect Woodcock gun !!!

Russ, Looks like a great day! And it must have been extra special with that wonderful .410...:) Thanks for the pictures !

Hi Dave ,Great day just to be out ! We shot the little guns at the birds and had a good time afield , Rich shoots an early Fox Model B 410 that he inherited from an Uncle ,when we got back to the house ,I ask if he would like to give the Parker a go and we shot another two Boxes off the patio at clay birds out of the foot release trap I have mounted in the shrubs ! I still can't beleive my Wife thought it was a good idea when I mentioned it to her to mount one there ,now she keeps saying ,I should have mounted an electric trap that I could load a bunch of birds in instead of one at a time ,:whistle: Maybe next spring :rotf:

Your wife is awesome! Does she have any sisters....?....:rotf:

Careful Dave... sisters are rarely cast from the same mold.

russ how is 410 choked.... i know most of them were full and full but was guessing it might be choked somethink else since it made a nice bird gun.... charlie

Hi Charlie ,on the Galazan gauge which is not the most accurate way to measure Parker choke but .... the only way I have ,it reads Right / IC and Left / M . The little gun really dusts the clay birds and out of four limits of Woodcock ," 12 Birds " here in Pa. only had one Bird the Dog had to jump after ,and I am sure that was just pure bad shooting on my part ! I have shot one other limit with my 28 Ga. , and that will wrap up my Woodcock shooting for 2011 !