Parkers for Argentina Waterfowl

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[nid-28]

Having shot in Argentina and Uruguay a number of times, I found my M21 20 bore to be a good match for the duck shooting. Shooting 1 oz of lead 5's, it neatly accounted for limits on each excursion, without any difficulty. The birds decoyed nicely and shots were mostly within 30 yards. Using thin wall briley's I used IC and mod or mod and imp. mod for all my shooting. You don't need full or extra full for these birds. 12 bore loads were 1 1/8oz--usually Fiocchis and they work very well too. I would consider using chokes up to
imp. mod in 12 bore. I'm not sure about using damascus barreled guns. I never saw any low pressure loads in SA. We went on multi specie trips--duck, pigeons, doves and perdiz. A 20 bore is nice for all of them. The pigeons can sometimes use some choke. They are tough birds and if not decoying well, can be a real challenge. Have a great trip. There is no better place in the world for volume wingshooting at a reasonable price!

[Don Kaas]

Yes, I have been there a few times myself. I have taken my two barrel set 28/30" M21 20 gauge Magnum twice for both doves,pigeons and ducks and Perazzis and 12g M21s the other times. I have been in some very windy and cold situations in Argentina where a little more gun than a 26 gram 20 gauge load was called for ducks let alone geese but I agree a 20 is usually adequate. In NW Argentina a few years ago, most of our shooting turned out to be on the pass and the 20ga with standard local loads was at its limit.The Parker DH 20ga I mentioned previously is a #2 frame that weighs slightly more than 8 lbs with 3" chambers that handles non-toxic 3" magnum loads effortlessly here in NA. I do not expect the standard CIP loads in Argentina will give it a problem. It is choked .029 in both barrels. Generally, I prefer a full choke and longer range shooting. I usually bring 8 boxes of 20g 3" 1 1/4oz to tide me over for a day or two in this effort and then shoot them with their feet down after that.