Oh he went on and on about it I can assure you. How a 20 gauge skeet gun was all the fowling piece a man needed in all weathers. That they'd kill them just as dead, just as far, as my big 10 gauge, etc etc etc. I offered him a February goose hunt on the St. Clair and said to bring along his little pop gun but he never took me up on it oddly enough.
I'm sure a 20 or even a 28 will kill a goose just fine in the perfect conditions, particularly if you can hit them in the head or neck. But give me a day with the wind howling, bundled up in heavy clothes, stiff with cold, and the birds being a little shy about finishing over the decoys....
I'll stick with the heavy artillery.
DLH
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