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Last hunt with 20/32 for the season. Moving to the 16/30 1 1/2 frame.
These were circling to land ducks over cut corn. We certainly had the advantage. I made a couple nice long ones on ducks trying to get away after others shot  - then finished off by missing a crossing layup at 20 yards!  Great season with this little gun. Certainly not the highest condition or grade in my small collection but quickly moving up the ranks as my favorite.
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11-29-2018, 07:21 PM
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Nice!
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11-29-2018, 08:50 PM
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that 20 is a duck gun for sure....charlie
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Ok - My Bad. - I pushed it tooooo far. Ugh!
I knew it was a mistake. I made the decision to move up to a bigger gun for the later ducks ..... and then I grabbed the 20 again...... These fat red legs fresh down from near the top of the world are really tough for 1 oz. #5 shot in a marsh like ours, with numerous escape routes and no dog. I killed most but I lost two birds I had down and considered dead. If we had a dog I am sure we would have had both but we didn't, and I know better. A lesson I will not soon forget. Craig and I had a 3 day run surrounded by Ice - I Hunted my new to me 3 frame DHE (Thanks again Mr. Swanson!) on day 3 with TM 1 1/4 #3 bone breakers - much better results. A nice double by each of us. Although.... Craig's was a thing of beauty I will remember for a very long time  !Counting down days till second set Dec. 26. Me with Mallards on day 1 Craig's Superfox day 2 - Mallards and Blacks Forgot to take pics on Day 3 -
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12-07-2018, 09:16 AM
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I enjoy your duck hunting stories and pics Mark! Keep them coming!
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12-07-2018, 06:06 PM
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What Mark does not mention is our day two hunt. We had 8 birds down but without a dog to pick them up we broke down our boat blind to collect what we thought was a limit of mallards, 4 hens and 4 drakes. What we discovered after motoring around the ice covered pothole was instead of 4 hen mallards we had 1 hen mallards and three blacks. Mark looks at me and says should we set up again I said dam right!! We no sooner got set up and I had two more drake mallards on the water. So we were short one black and it was Mark's turn to shoot. No sooner than I said it's your shot a big drake black duck comes screaming in over our decoys left to right. I am positioned behind Mark and I see him swing on the black with his 32" 20ga straight grip G and crush the bird. Unfortunately we lost the last drake mallard but a high five hunt we will recall for years. God I love duck hunting!!
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12-08-2018, 07:48 PM
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Nice!!!
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While it is the 12 ga. time of the season for duck hunting, I hope that
my new to me ghe 20 with 32" barrels gets here before the second season starts. i hope to use it one day this year. |
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