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12-31-2018, 05:33 PM
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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;261634]My advice would be to bring a different gun for late season pheasants.
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12-31-2018, 06:06 PM
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You owe it to the bird to shoot it hard with enough shot to kill it at the distance you decide to shoot. I'm sure you can figure out what that distance is, but just remember, pheasants are tough and can carry lead. Unless you want to feed scavengers, make sure you either shoot close with a cylinder bored 20 or not at all. I always count the birds that I knock down and don't find as part of my bag limit. It hurts to cripple a bird as noble as Mr. Rooster.
And I still recommend track shoes and a dog that breaks at the shot.
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[QUOTE=Kevin McCormack;261727]
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01-02-2019, 11:22 AM
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Table training a new puppy is a real bitch sometimes. However, Kevin has found that table training a cock pheasant is a piece of cake.
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01-02-2019, 01:58 PM
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I have a vh20 with 26in cylinder and mod barrels and adhe 16 with 26 in cylinder and mod chokes. I have shot plenty of preserve pheasants with both of these guns, but I would not take either one of them on a trip to Kansas. I was in Kansas last January in the next to the last week of the Season flushes were few far between and at good distances. I was generally carrying my gh16 choked mod and put full or my 4E Ithika 16 chokedmod/full ,a much better choice for the Prairie
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12-30-2018, 07:05 PM
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Karl,
If you're hunting over pointing dogs and willing to pick you shots, it will be ok. However, this time of the year, the birds can get pretty wild so you may want a backup gun. Ken |
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12-30-2018, 07:16 PM
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I should have mentioned I will be taking my Fox AE 16 too but I would like to hunt with the VH 20 also. I don't normally shoot a gun with this configuration so I'm just curious as to what range the right barrel would still be effective at.
I remember Reggie saying in a post a while back that he had a 20 with factory cyl & mod and he really liked it so hopefully others that have experience shooting these factory chokes will chime in. Thanks |
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12-30-2018, 07:19 PM
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I have found parkers with little choke will patteren what you would think they sould and with tighter choke they pattered tighter than what they should. Every cly choked parker i have had had .003 to.004 of choke and did shoot 40 to 45%. This is what i have seen with all test shots i do at a 30 inch circle at 40 yds.
Also found the bigger shot (6s and up) shoot tighter Scott
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