Sort of the MidWestern answer to the equally great Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Harry Chapin and other Eastern Seaboard musical artists--Yes, I have doubled on mallards a few times over the 50 years or more I have been an avid waterfowler-always with a Model 12 however- never on pheasants--
Re: The GHE 12 project Parker that friend Brad Bachelder completed for me- I sent in an article and Brad's research on the Christian Fischer after market ejectors to Austin Hogan at Parker Pages- should he decide to use it in a future issue-- I have a birthday next month- and Grey November Days- or Gray November Days might be under my Birthday placemat-I also recall Havilah Babcock and his "My Health Is Always Better in November"- great read. I will use the GHE on a preserve hunt on my birthday with Brad-a possible double I suppose, but he has a big yellow male Lab named Max and in my experience with pheasants, I might expect two Roosters to flush from a point taken by the gunner, but with a flushing dog, "no holds barred" as to shot opportunities-- I have seen only one true double on Roosters- years ago now I was treated to another birthday Nov. hunt (I used a M12 but no double for me)- my host was a known area dog trainer and had several pieces of private preserve under his lease. We went to a old weathered farm, where three days earlier they had put out 50 pheasants for a corporate hunt.
So we were hunting "left-overs" and he had a Ithaca Japanese 20 side-by with a single trigger like the Model 21- and a big male GSP named Rommel-solid as a rock on point, and when he went it, two Roosters went up, one rolled out right, the other to the left and the little gun barked twice- I assumed (being a 12 gauge gunner) Jim had added an "insurance shot", I never saw the left going bird drop, but it did, and his dog brought back, one at a time, two dead as Caesar's ghost Roosters-so we shall see. It's a personal thing understood only by fellow gunners- sorta like what a ATA Lifer once told me years ago about running 100 straight at 16 yards (a feat he had done countless times) or as he put it, running 25 straight back to back to back-- here's the jist of what he said: "Son, first time you run a 100 straight at 16 yards, you get your patch and put it in your shirt pocket, then go downtown to the best restaurant and order yourself a nice big steak dinner with all the trimmings- then when the waiter brings you the bill, show him that 100 straight patch and see just how much they deduct from the tab for your accomplishment- great lesson in humility 101- Cheers--
