Opening Day Pictures

[Gary Laudermilch]

We hunted a state managed dove field. This is only the second year PA Game Commission has relented and permitted the management of fields for dove. Last year there but a few hunters. This year it was packed and most of those I observed game new meaning to the term "sky busting". One guy I talked to said it was the first time he ever hunted doves. He was on his fifth box of shells and had three doves.

We did pretty good considering it did not take long for the birds to gain altitude. I shot a 1948 Win. model 12 20 ga solid rib skeet gun I purchased a few months ago. I bloodied it yesterday as it was unfired when I bought it. It was fun shooting a gun I started my hunting career with when I was 12.