I used an 1891 GH 10 gauge with RST Nice Shot #2s. If I did my part I was just as effective as my buddy with his Bennelli using steel shot. The mature blue in the picture with the GH actually landed at the edge of our decoys and I shot him at about 35 yards when he was 10 ft high. We ended up with 15 birds the first day, most were taken in the morning. We only got 2 birds in the morning on our second day before a storm blew in and the birds stopped flying. Late the first day we had a flock of several thousand birds over our decoy spread at about 60 or 70 yards up. They didn't like something about our spread so they wouldn't come any lower, but that alone was worth the cost of the hunt. Unfortunately my camera was in my pack.
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