I just finished up 19days of hunting ruffies with Trigg in Saskatchewan and Alberta and ruffies and woodcock in Minnesota at the RGS annual shoot, all with my 26" 28ga SK1/SK2 Repro and felt I had the perfect gun. Strangely enough(to me anyway), some folks were using 12ga guns with 1-1/4oz heavy hunting loads. That seemed overkill to me, and I'm not even a very good shot. I used mostly 7-1/2 shot and even when hit with 2-3 pellets birds went down well. I had not gotten or even seen a woodcock in 43yrs and got 3 during the RGS hunt. Very fun. We did our last hunting for sharptails in Alberta this morning but saw only one ruffed grouse and we're on our way home tonite, which will take two more long days of driving. We've got the geese we got with Bob Brown frozen and in the car top carrier. Bob called us today while we were walking the edge of a pea field. Hopefully we'll get to hunt with him and Brett again next year. Brett offered us a whole deer he had hanging in his barn... next to his elk.... today, but we didn't have room in the car! Too bad!
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