It doesn't get much better than that!
Congratulations Steve! You're going to love that gun!
I was grouse hunting in Vermont with Dave and Danny Suponski in a cover we call the "Pine/Apple Bowl" when a grouse flushed 25 yards in front of me and crossed right to left going away hard. Danny heard him but never saw him and I fired my left (M) barrel as the bird vanished behind a screen of gnarly scrub-apple. I didn't think I connected but owed it to the grouse to take a look. when I got to where I should start looking nearly 40 yards from where I shot, there he was on the ground stone dead! I was shooting RST 28 gauge Lites in #8. And I have killed other grouse at similar ranges - certainly not the norm but certainly do-able with that combination. I am a firm believer in that choke, that gauge, and that load as a great game-getter.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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