Dean,
The sweet part is: By taking the two guns. I will have the option to switch from gauge to gauge, gun to gun as I feel might be needed at the time.
There is a little consideration to the trip costs associated with shooting the 28ga as the primary gun. The 28ga ammo is $2.00 more a box than the 20ga and in Argentina this could add to the trip cost's real fast.
Here's my plan.
The package I'm doing will be a six day's of shooting, which is what they call twelve hunts. The outfitter includes in the cost of the trip package 4000 rounds of 20 or 12ga, but if you choose to shoot 28 or 16ga the rounds included drop's down to 3000 rounds. So my plan is to use the 28ga for most of the rounds that are included in the package. Then when I exceed these, I'll start shooting the 20ga when the ammo costs are totally on me.
As far as the weight of the gun is concerned.
The 20ga repro I'm buying supposedly tips the scales at 6lbs 12oz. In my book that's still not what I think of as a heavy weight gun. It's not like I'll be carrying it for miles a day, but I will be mounting & swinging it a bunch. One bit of advice I got before last years trip was to make sure to practice mounting and swinging the gun before you go. I did that last year and it payed off IMO. I started about three months before the trip and the last two weeks before the trip I was up to 200 mount's & swings per evening session. I also went to the range at least once a week for the two months prior to the trip as well.This year I'm also planning on doing some extra upper body work at the gym. Hopefully this will help compensate for the half pound more the repro weighs over the gun I shot last year.
All good stuff though!
Thanks,
Paul
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