early fall chukars in Alaska

[Richard Flanders]

Saturday I drove through the night to get to the Lake north of Anchorage where Trigg spends his weekends and sacked out in the back of my little SUV for until morning. Trigg motored over and picked me up and after a breakfast at his cabin on the lake and an early waterski for his wife we headed for the preserve with his GSP Shine to wreak havoc on some chukars. We had the place to ourselves as most people are busy preparing for the opening of moose season Sept 1 and, at almost 70deg and sunny, it was the only truly "summery" day I've experienced yet this year. We had a good old time putting birds out and letting Shine hunt them up. I shot my newly acquired damascus CHE12, trigg an almost criminally lightweight Ferlib 20ga. Only one bird escaped and I'll be supping on some tender fresh chukar throughout this coming winter. It was a fun shoot and I do dearly love the new C-grade. What a beauty!

[Dean Romig]

Have we seen pictures of that CHE yet?

[charlie cleveland]

you fellas no how to do it rite... lovely guns the c s......charlie

[Bill Faulk]

Tough Life but it seems you have adopted well..

[Richard Flanders]

Dean: there are pics of it in the for sale section of the forum. I've been too busy shooting it to take any more of it but will at some point. It's a nice light 1-1/2 frame gun that is easy to carry and seems a perfect upland gun, though a bit long for a preserve gun - you want to let them get out a bit before shooting... I had to shoot it this weekend though as I had not killed a bird with it yet.

[Dean Romig]

Sounds like the perfect ptarmigan gun.