32 inch Bernard Barrels take a Tom
I finally had fortune go my way this morning just a few minutes before sunrise. I've been wanting to take a turkey with my 1886 grade 4 Parker, and things worked out perfectly this morning as a bird came in to my calls, saw the decoys, and posed for a full choked 1 oz. load of 6s. There was no doubt on the pattern from the 32 inch barrels that had been patterned back in 1886 to place 180 #8s in a 24 inch circle at 45 yards.
First shot fired from this great, old gun that's been in the safe waiting for just the right time. Thanks, Josh L.!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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