Any One Useing a 28 Gauge Parker Hunting

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

Jay,

I've never even moved 100 grouse in a season.
You need to invite me up next year. I'll shoot the 28 gauge.
It will do my new, young Setter some good to see some Grouse.

Dave, it was truly spectacular and we were indeed fortunate. I think weather played a big part in the number of birds we saw. It had rained most of last week and the woods was really wet Friday. Saturday morning was clear and cool with a nice breeze and so things dried out relatively quickly and that got the birds moving.

I hope to take a day-trip on the 25th and then hunt the weekend of the 30th and then one more day trip on the 8th. When you get down to it there are really not that many weekends during grouse season.

You can certainly use my 28 but I though you could not hit with it ;-)

[Dave Miles]

Originally Posted by Jay Gardner

Dave, it was truly spectacular and we were indeed fortunate. I think weather played a big part in the number of birds we saw. It had rained most of last week and the woods was really wet Friday. Saturday morning was clear and cool with a nice breeze and so things dried out relatively quickly and that got the birds moving.

I hope to take a day-trip on the 25th and then hunt the weekend of the 30th and then one more day trip on the 8th. When you get down to it there are really not that many weekends during grouse season.

You can certainly use my 28 but I though you could not hit with it ;-)

I bought another one:
Straight stock, two triggers, 28" barrels, with the BTFE.
Rich, Eric, and I will be in the U.P. from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1
Probably get snowed in. Oh well there's always whiskey to drink.

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

I bought another one:
Straight stock, two triggers, 28" barrels, with the BTFE.
Rich, Eric, and I will be in the U.P. from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1
Probably get snowed in. Oh well there's always whiskey to drink.

Did you open the chokes on your 28? It has been at least a couple of years since I have shot my 28" barrels.

Two of my buddies have been in the UP since Saturday and planned to stay through Friday but are heading back today. They hunted in snow the past two days.

Enjoy the UP - I am always happy to hear that people are headed north of the bridge. Just means less company for me in the northern lower.

[Opening Day]

Jay, you wouldn't be hunting some of the areas that we hit last year would you. I plan to try an make a one day run up there. At my property a friend of mine was staying last weekend and moved a few grouse and six or eight woodcock without a dog and that was just around the cabin... I need to get up there. Eric

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Eric Eis

Jay, you wouldn't be hunting some of the areas that we hit last year would you. I plan to try an make a one day run up there. At my property a friend of mine was staying last weekend and moved a few grouse and six or eight woodcock without a dog and that was just around the cabin... I need to get up there. Eric

No. I have not been back there yet this year. I thought I would save that in case you and I could get together for another hunt. This Saturday is out but I may be able to get there on the 25th. Interested?

[John D.]

If a repro counts.. From today - a little 28 GA... While I usually use a 20 - I'm liking the 28 more and more for the NE woods...

[Setter Man]

It certainly works for me, John. As much as I would like to own an original Parker 28 I just can't see spending that kind of coin for a gun that I'll use the hell out of in the grouse woods. I really enjoy my 28 ga Repro and use it often, especially early in the season.

BTW: had a chance to handle that 28/30 at Jaquas last week. It is a very nice gun but whomever cut off the SSBP needs to be smacked silly but not as badly as whomever did the crappy job of splicing the SSBP back on.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

Oh well there's always whiskey to drink.

Dave, that reminds me of my first weekend of 'grouse camp' this season - I always thought I was a 'dyed-in-the-wool' Jack Daniel's man but I was introduced to some fine sippin' likker by a local feller. Morton's Reserve as I recall . . . very, very nice

I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Dave, that reminds me of my first weekend of 'grouse camp' this season - I always thought I was a 'dyed-in-the-wool' Jack Daniel's man but I was introduced to some fine sippin' likker by a local feller. Morton's Reserve as I recall . . . very, very nice

I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick

I had a run in this past weekend with a bottle of Blanton's. Yikes. I used to be a Jack-man but then I discovered Buffalo Trace.

[Bill Murphy]

I've been shooting my 28" modified and full VH for 50 years this hunting season. I've never used anything but 3/4 ounce loads, but the chokes make up for lack of shot. I've never felt undergunned. However, when I used to shoot Southern Maryland quail as a teenager, I know I missed many close birds because of the tight chokes. My only experience with my new 26" cylinder and full straight grip VH was last year on off season field trial leftovers. We had some nice close pointed birds in the bag, when I took a desperation left barrel shot on a bird that had not been shot at. She was curving around a little stand of trees about 40+ yards out and I fired as she disappeared. Just on a whim, we walked toward the point at which I last saw the bird. I was a bit proud when one of the dogs came up with the dead bird right where I knew she would be. It's nice to have a hunting partner to witness a shot like that. I haven't patterned my old gun since I was in high school, but I patterned the new gun shortly after I got it home. The .020 left barrel just tears the middle out of the paper at any reasonable bird shooting distance. I think a full choked 28 is fine for pheasants up to almost 40 yards if the shooter knows what he is doing.