Prairie Chickens - Needle in a Haystack?

[Double Lab]

Mark,

Don't you just love it when you can stick it to 'em like that? Reminds me of one of my first trips to SD with an outfitter who just doesn't like someone to correct him.

He liked to supply ammo to the shooters for extra cost and he believed that they needed 12ga, 1 1/4, 6's. So when I uncased my 20ga Parker and stuffed it with 7/8oz of 7 1/2's he told me that if I wounded too many birds he would have to ask me to leave the field. Yeah, right. Fast forward to the next year and more of the guys were toting 20ga guns. He almost had a stroke when I showed up that year with a 28ga. Dumped him after that year and found a great family to hunt with and this will be our 15th or 16th year I believe. Still hunting with the 20's and 28's.

[Mark Kircher]

Daryl
It was exceedingly satisfying on this occasion! Mr. Tinker was not a timid man and was proud of his opinions!
He too was not impressed with our gun selection as we all showed up with 20 bore guns.
As a good friend of ours says "an ounce of shot is an ounce of shot - no matter what gun it comes out of" while that can be disputed there is a bunch of truth to it. 20's and 28's get alot of work done!!!

[Double Lab]

"an ounce of shot is an ounce of shot - no matter what gun it comes out of" while that can be disputed there is a bunch of truth to it. 20's and 28's get alot of work done!!!

Not meaning to hijack this thread any further but I learned a long time ago it's not how much shot you put in the air but where you put it. 3/4 of an ounce delivered to the head is better than an 1 1/4oz delivered to a hit-too-far-back body shot.

[Dean Weber]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Mark,

Don't you just love it when you can stick it to 'em like that? Reminds me of one of my first trips to SD with an outfitter who just doesn't like someone to correct him.

He liked to supply ammo to the shooters for extra cost and he believed that they needed 12ga, 1 1/4, 6's. So when I uncased my 20ga Parker and stuffed it with 7/8oz of 7 1/2's he told me that if I wounded too many birds he would have to ask me to leave the field. Yeah, right. Fast forward to the next year and more of the guys were toting 20ga guns. He almost had a stroke when I showed up that year with a 28ga. Dumped him after that year and found a great family to hunt with and this will be our 15th or 16th year I believe. Still hunting with the 20's and 28's.

Our guys told us to bring autoloaders which would hold 4 or more shots. Magazine extenders would be very helpful! We told him we would mainly be using vintage guns, which he was not excited about. However, like your story, we killed the birds in front of us. Although the shots were long, chickens die pretty easily so low weight loads were not the problem....

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Dean Weber

Our guys told us to bring autoloaders which would hold 4 or more shots. Magazine extenders would be very helpful! We told him we would mainly be using vintage guns, which he was not excited about. However, like your story, we killed the birds in front of us. Although the shots were long, chickens die pretty easily so low weight loads were not the problem....

The problem with some outfitters is they don't understand our way of thinking when it comes to bird hunting shotguns. I've never felt undergunned when using a 2 barreled gun and couldn't imagine carrying a jam-o-matic with an extended magazine walking the prairie.