new england grouse shooting by william foster

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

For all you guys that use a hammer gun to hunt with my hats off to you. I tried it by myself on a preserve Pheasant hunt and found it very frustrating. The shells fell out of the open gun (I even tried biting them so they were somewhat out of round. I think I read that trick here). Cocking the hammers on the rise wasn't possible and finally cocked them when the dog went on point. The problem with that was the birds would run then Im going after a it with a cocked gun I'll leave my hammer guns to the clays course

Practice makes perfect COB.

If you want to be good at something you have to dedicate yourself to mastering it.
A friend and I spent hours upon hours tying flies for our two-week trip to Alaska. When we had finished we each had about 200 flies of various Alaskan patterns. When my friend was telling me his list of equipment he was bringing he had included only one fly rod and reel but was bringing two spinning outfits.
I suggested to him that if he ever wanted to become really good at fly fishing he should dedicate himself to mastering it and the best way to start was to bring another fly rod, reel and additional spools and leave all the spinning stuff at home. He took my advice and by the second day was doing extremely well catching chinooks, rainbows, dolly vardens, and grayling and actually thanked me for pushing him that little bit extra.

I enjoy hunting grouse and woodcock with my hammer guns. And I know I can hunt with a hammerless whenever I want to, but I wanted to get good at it so I dedicated myself to it.

Your results may differ.





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[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Practice makes perfect COB.

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and practicing is, in its self rewarding

[C.O.B.]

I will be taking two hammer guns with me Quail hunting in Jan. It's more open the dogs point then the flushers go to work. No fear of walking through thick stuff with a cocked and loaded shotgun.

I'll use the Grant with some of RST's 2 inch shells and the WR Pape 28.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Practice makes perfect COB.

If you want to be good at something you have to dedicate yourself to mastering it.
A friend and I spent hours upon hours tying flies for our two-week trip to Alaska. When we had finished we each had about 200 flies of various Alaskan patterns. When my friend was telling me his list of equipment he was bringing he had included only one fly rod and reel but was bringing two spinning outfits.
I suggested to him that if he ever wanted to become really good at fly fishing he should dedicate himself to mastering it and the best way to start was to bring another fly rod, reel and additional spools and leave all the spinning stuff at home. He took my advice and by the second day was doing extremely well catching chinooks, rainbows, dolly vardens, and grayling and actually thanked me for pushing him that little bit extra.

I enjoy hunting grouse and woodcock with my hammer guns. And I know I can hunt with a hammerless whenever I want to, but I wanted to get good at it so I dedicated myself to it.

Your results may differ.





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Dean,
You are a better man them I am. I'm like Rich, tried, (probably not enough) and I just didn't feel safe for my dog or my partner, and I know that's me and I didn't give it enough time to get comfortable with it, but for me no. I love hammer guns, but for me it's on the clay courses. I just don't feel safe enough out in the field, and again that is probably to do with just more practice, but I just don't get into the woods enough times to practice that "how to" so I do what I am comfortable with. It would be special to shoot a grouse with a hammer gun... I would love that but I just don't see that in my future.