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The brace of big Nevada blue grouse I lucked into while moving my sagehen hunting to another drainage. I went over a high central NV mountain range and checked out a choke cherry patch just below the 8,500' pass.
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Now they're dinner...
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Well done, what ya shooting?
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Nice pictures! love the side by side too. Now I am hungry after looking at that mess of birds in a dish.
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Thanks I was shooting a 16ga French Robust #4 with 25 1/2" tubes, IC & Mod with 1 1/8oz 5 shot. These are big and fully feathered birds. Body size is like a big pheasant. There sure were good eating. They had choke cherry, currents, rose hips, and some young willow sprouts in their crops. We are in the driest State in all 50, but those high elevations have some lush grouse habitat.
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I assume the shotgun came with the sling swivels, because Europeans have always been more practical about putting slings on shotgun than Americans (or the British, who always seem to have a flunky or two to carry their shotguns). Is my assumption correct?
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Absolutely correct. My three SXS doubles all have the narrow European ones, as well as the drillings and cape gun. I also use the slip on shotgun slings on my pumps and autos. Our bird hunting is more vertical than horizontal, so slings are a real help. Slings have never caused me to shoot any worse than I already do. It is nice to be able to use all-fours chuckar and blue grouse hunting. It confuses the h ll out of my dogs sometimes, though.
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I have used the slip-on slings as well. They work, but....
When I am expecting to have to tote the shotgun a ways, I either take one of my European side-by-sides with swivels, or one of my American shotguns that I've added swivel-studss to. Have had studs on my old 12-gauge 870 for almost as long as I've owned it, and I bought it in 1979.
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do yo know what she weights? Looks and sounds like a dandy!! Unlike the German, the French seemed to be more concerned with keeping the weight down... that said, I have a 16 gauge German Hubertus that tips the scales at a massive 5.5lbs so the Germans did build some lights ones... and yes it has sling eyes.
Congrats again! We have a decent diversity of wildlife in MO but decent size game birds are few in far between in the wild these days (except turkeys). MO once had a great population of grouse and pheasants but not so anymore.
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99, It is under 6 pounds and almost too diminutive for me. ...except after about the 4th hour of chugging up chuckar slopes. It seems to grow heavier, the higher I climb. D mn those French! How'd they do that? It is a well used little double and not a cream-puff, but it is like-new tight still, and has not missed a lick...ever. I remember as a kid hunting quail in MO and did well, but farms have changed, and cover is not the same anymore. We made a trip to MO and IL to visit relatives, and it was always in the Fall for some reason.
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Nice blues! They always seem to put a ponderosa or Doug Fir between them and me when I have a shotgun. I've got more with my Bearcat than a shotgun! Great double also. Manufrance doubles are undervalued in the US (and that's a GOOD thing!). I also have a Robust 16. Mine has 27" barrels and is choked cylinder and fuller-than-full. A very plain gun with extractors and a semi-pistol grip stock. Has some neat Arabic script on the reciever which my son translated as "Police Property"! North African riot gun? Gotta be a story there.... I agree about the sling swivels and sling. Especially if you chase chukars. (European-size slings are available from www.kebco.com I'm about to order one for a Savage/Valmet double I'm slowly resurrecting from the dead....).
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Nice work. I finally got a couple of Blues at about the same altitude here in Kalifornia. My gun is a Rem 870, in 28 gauge. IC choke and 3/4 an oz. of 7 1/2's. Yes, Chukars are even worse than Blues to get. Light guns are really worth having assuming you can hit something with them. Had a 7 1/4 lb. 12 ga. Sig O/U that I finally sold because I couldn't hit anything with it. But this little 28 doesn't seem to have that problem. Just why, I'm not sure. E
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The men want to know about the shotgun and my wife wants to know your recipe.
Mind sharing your recipe for those blues?
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Gave the vitals for the shotgun above already. The recipe is an easy one and works with pheasant and chuckar, too. I simply cut up the birds like a chicken and place them in a shallow roasting dish, pour Campbell's cream of mushroom soup over them, add white wine and sherry, Mushrooms, tarragon, a little Old Bay if you like it, dash of onion and garlic powder to your taste, pepper...No Salt, the soup has enough...and marinated artichoke hearts. Roast covered in medium oven for 45-60 minutes, depending on how big a mess you made and take the foil off the last ten minutes. Add sherry and/or white wine as you like for your taste and water or milk if it starts to get dry during cooking. I sprinkle parsley over it before serving. Its great with a wild/brown rice pilaf side. I like a Pinot Noir with it, but it is also very good with a Riesling. ...or beer.
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