What would Grandpa do?
I had cheated on my second bird, using a 3.5" 12 ga for a bird that I though would be hard to get, but he came to fourteen steps on flydown and the 2.25 oz. 5,6,7 Hevi-shot blend to the head was not much of a sport.
It was back to the short ten and two unproductive weeks. With only two days left in the season, I called in four young birds, let them go, and then called two curious birds back and we got into a clucking match at thirty-five yards. Do I shoot? No. Do I want to keep hunting? No. Do I shoot? What would Grandpa do with a bird at thirty-five yards, head straight up in the air, and a load of number fours in the right barrel of a full choked 10 gauge Parker and I need to get to work?
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