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Yeah, a lot of people like to make a new barrel a mystical experience, rather than a mechanical one....

So, here's the plan for tomorrow. 1) Go quail hunting. Not sure whether to take a setter and a pointer or two setters. One thing is for certain, when I'm hunting by myself, all three ain't goin'. I will take suggestions on this and whether to take my Parker DHE 20 ga. or my SKB 28 ga. 2) After an afternoon nap, shoot a) 57.5 gr H4350 and 180 gr Hornady SP's and b) same charge 165 gr Nosler BT. If these don't get close, sayonara pressure point.

28 gauge and kill the pressure point.

Sounds like a plan to me!

The most satisfying experience I've had while bird hunting was knocking down a true WILD QUAIL double with a 28. But, you do carry a gun more than you shoot it and that Parker is mighty purdy. . .

Anyway, if this is the only vote for tomorrow, the SKB it will be.

Is the 28 ga a SxS??

Ingwe

Very valid question, I can only assume he is a man of taste by his posts so I figure it is.

Why suh, you make me blush. . .

Umm, but no. Its and O/U that I shoot dern near as well as a 12 ga.

I love SXS but they don't love me (or I don't know how to shoot them). I've had and traded a bunch. The only one that I have now was a 10th anniversary present from my wife.

An O/U for quail????


Take the Parker!

My God man, that would be like shooting Rocky Mountain Mule deer with a stainless synthetic rifle.....



Ingwe

Well, Parker it is. My "homies" (lord I do giggle like a girl over this term) here shoot Berretta or Benelli semis. I like to hunt more than kill. The girls here just like to point.

I was raised with, and shot SxS all my life....so I am biased...
But if you promise not to tell anyone, I have used a Benelli Supersport on clays a few times.....and I love it...
All tolled though, Im not a shotgun person, and by and large, am not good with one...

Ingwe

I'm afraid I'm going to have to put you on ignore. An O/U shotgun for quail, jeez.


I use this old clunker, but I do need to get a 28 or at the very least a 20.

Scott...I don't know about HS...

But I'm gonna tell you...

YOU SUCK!


Feel the love....and the envy...

Bastid...

Ingwe

There's a good story, well a story anyways, about the shotgun. Long short of it, a good gunsmith friend took pity on me and 'sold' it to me for a song.

Don't worry though, I'm about as good with a shotgun as you apparently, but I do enjoy them.

Where in the hell is the dog in this picture?

BTW, what a beautiful Scott. I can't tell from the pics, but are the barrels damascus?

Anything else Mr. OU....

They started life that way but were sleeved somewhere along the way, very well done. Best I can figure is it was made in the late 1880's

Ever notice the bad thing about pheasants, is that they are so cool looking, you want to get them all mounted...

If you get to Africa...and HS is about to...Impala are the same way...

And they kinda remind you of whitetails...live in the nastiest thickest thorn crapp and never have a hair out of place...

Ingwe

Cool, give me a minute. On the daughter's laptop. . .

That was the first time pheasant hunting, and it weren't like you see on TV. Those damn birds were flushing WILD. A good friend took me for 3 days on my trip down from Alaska.

I could have shot a GREAT 4x4 almost 30" wide mule deer in the back of the head with a load of #5's. I about stepped on that bedded bastard.

Funny you mention Impala, I've never been but always thought I could spend an entire safari just hunting them and not feel cheated.