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I like it!!
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08-31-2018, 11:52 AM
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It looks like I'll be spending opening day at the WMA I mentioned in a prior post. I don't kmow whether I will shoot or not but if I decide to, I'll bring a newly acquired DHE sub 7lb 12 bore. I'll leave my New England attitude about crowded fields at home and just enjoy the festivities with hopes of somehow running into the venerable Mr. Murphy. I'd love to see him again. We had a lot of fun with our dogs and the quail on that WMA.
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08-31-2018, 06:00 PM
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GH. 12 gauge with straight grip and 32 inch barrels. Just picked it up today. Also a Filson vest we found and didn't know we had
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08-31-2018, 06:21 PM
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08-31-2018, 10:54 PM
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they wont get to high for that new gun....i m going to start off shooting the lifter 10 ga no chokes made in 1874 30 inch barrels not cut....this is one of those plain steel barrel gun i have 2 of these plain steel barrel guns and seen a 3 rd one a while back all made in 1874.... charlie
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09-01-2018, 12:21 AM
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I have been out 4 days over the last week scouting for birds. Late rains with weeds and grass still green has Really shatter the dove.
I Decided to go with my Remington DEO’s. Guns are packed and are ready to go. Next week when things quite down I will take out my Parker DH 28 along with my daughters black lab that I have been training. We have shot pen raised Chucker's and pigeons over him but I want to make sure there will not be any extra distractions on his first dove hunt. Im really more excited about taking Tucker out and seing how he performs then I am about opening day tomorrow. 
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09-01-2018, 09:10 AM
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Your wise on getting that dog into game. One of the first labs I trained took him to an opening day dove hunt when he was 9 months old. I was 17 so we were both pretty green. He was awesome. During training that spring and summer his sight retrieves on land were out to 75 yards and we kept his water retrieves to no more than 20 yards and he was already taking whistle and hand commands. Except I had not introduced him to live game yet.
Get off to myself a bit in a corner on that first dove hunt and was able to get an early loafer to cruise by at 20 yards and knock it down. I am sending Rufus on his first hunting retrieve and he has this shimmering intent look as I send him and he just explodes forward toward the dove but stops short and picks up my shotgun hull that ejected from bottom of pump shotgun. Uggh. It tool some more work but he figured it but he either hated litter or loved plastic. It took years for him to quit trying pick up hulls even if he had game in his mouth and coming back if he ran across a plastic hull he would pick it up to. Dang dog had an incredible nose. He could find old plastic shotgun shells that had been laying in fields for years. There was no leaving any plastic hulls around for him, especially if we were duck hunting and if a hull is floating near the blind had to police it up or he would try and pick it up. Still remember day that he did not try and pick up a hull on cold duck hunt after a challenging retrieve. Knocked a wood duck down but only crippled him and Rufus had to chase him down and even dove down to get him, which was also a first. He swims back with duck and gets close and eyeballs hull but then just swims by it to deliver the duck. He is standing there looking at the hull and then looking at me as if to say, I have done my part, the least you can do is pickup your hulls. We sort of made a bargain about that issue from then on. |
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09-01-2018, 10:27 PM
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Hotter than Hades today. Ninety plus degrees and ninety percent humidity. At noon it started raining. Stopped an hour later and was so hot no one could sit out in the sun. Went to another field and had birds coming in. Set up and just at the prime time a tremendous thunderstorm stole the last three hours of what promised to be a good day. Did get a few with the new to me DHE 16 gauge. Choked cylinder and IM. Not too original but I like it and that is all that matters. Shot 1 ounce of 8.5 right, 1 ounce of 7.5 left.
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