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Originally Posted by Daniel G Rainey
Just back from my weekly visit to Steve Barnett's gun shop. Lots of fine guns of all kinds. There are great English boxlocks out there that seem like that they are worth the money. Parkers seem to be a little cheaper to me, but do I need more shotguns ? I have five Parkers plus another that Steve is Trying to sale. With two 12's two 16's and a 20 do I need another gun NO What I need is more birds to shoot at.In Mississippi the quail have been gone since the late 70,s and our doves have been going down hill since the start of morning shooting . 40 years ago I belonged club called the dove club.
a couple of farmers fixed the fields and the members paid for the wheat. In Sept. there were 9 or 10 shoots and members purchased a least a case of shells. What fun we had. In the early 90's the club called it quits because of no birds. We can shoot released quail which is not cheap or travel. Pheasants in South Dakota is not like it was in the late 70's or 80's when we knew the farmers and hunted wild birds. The last time I hunted South Dakota It was kind like being in a whore house you knew you going to get what you came for and there was another SOB waiting for you to finish so he could start and they made sure there were three birds there for him. June I when to Argentina for the first time did not try to take any of my guns because of the red tape. I think the outfitters do not want you to bring your own guns so they can rent you an autoloader that will shoot 4 or 5 times rather you showing up with an o/u or side by side that only shoots twice. After all they are selling shells. But, the shooting was great, I missed my guns. We spend time and money finding the Parkers that fits. works money wise and is eye candy and designed to kill birds and then when you get chance to really use it you can't. Just blowing off steam. I am well aware that need has very little to do with gun purchases and before long another will come along that I can not live without. It could be some English side by side or maybe a German o/u if it has double triggers then the old problem raises it head what am going to shoot at.
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Down here in Georgia is extremely hard for our quail to survive in the wild between the farming and predators . I read a article last month claiming that hawks dont kill as many quail as hunters claim. Which I think is false because I raised quail and worked on a plantation and red tails was one of our top problems with keeping birds alive . You could probably release 200 birds the day before the hunt and seed your hunting land with them . At least here last I seen they was only about 3$ a piece so even if you spent a couple hundred $ it would be cheaper be a wide margin than coming to a plantation . However the kind of clients we did quail hunts for wasnt really about hunting but more of a social club to talk business deals since most of our guests were ceos or board members of large companies .
We do have some very nice quail hunting in this part of the state with two very large and quite nice plantations . We also have the Olin Plantation about 45 minutes from here and thats probably one of the nicest ones I have seen .