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We have been having unusually cold temperatures for eastern NC. I shot a couple of Wood ducks last Saturday morning and the dog couldn't walk out on the ice to retrieve them, so I had to break ice in the beaver pond to go get them myself. Lots of fun waterfowling!



These are my first kill's with my new 12 gauge Benelli M-2 (traded a hunting buddy my Ruger .257 Roberts for it last month). I like this shotgun pretty good so far, my first new semi-auto since 1976 and the first one I have owned with a 3" chamber. I shot the Wood ducks with 2 3/4" Winchester X-pert #4 steel shot.