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Stan: I have shot doves with a .410 bore on several occasions. It's a lot of fun! Especially good if doves are coming to decoys or a mojo dove. I will say on occasion I had to shoot a dove twice to get it down. I believe a .410 under the right circumstance is adequate as a game gun and a lot of fun too. If one is a poor or even marginal shot, I think it would be far more frustrating than fun, however.

I wouldn't waste an opening day on an experiment like that! If you do though, you might try the Polywad "gram cracker" loads. I've had good luck with them. Now don't rig the experiment by shooting a water hole or something like that.

I went through the "born again .410" stage a few years ago. Maybe Chuck's right and it was the 'Indian not the arrow', but I realized right off why I was in such a hurry to move up to a real guage shotgun as a kid...Geo

Heck up here we kill doves with fly swatters

Geo.,

Won't be a watering hole, though I will probably be looking for a watering hole after the shooting, if it's as hot as it's been here lately! I'll likely be shooting Kemens, found some recently at a local gun shop for $8.99/box. The 2 1/2" ones seem to work fine in the lil' gun.

jOe,

Bring that flyswatter down heah' and fan the gnats away from me Sept. 3. I can't cut no mo' holes in my britches!

SRH

I bet yankees don't even know 'bout that little trick!...Geo

The heck with that! How do I get in on some of that shooting?! I love hunting rabbits and, with coyotes the way they are now, hardly see any except the yotes' half-eaten leftovers.

Stan,
Are those gnats or circle flys
Steve

Steve,

They is GNATS. And they is the ver' same ones dat swarms around dogs' private parts!

They cost me lots of dough every summer. I have found that AyC Grenadiers (Light) cigars will keep'em at bay until it burns out. Bet I smoke a box and a half a day this time of the year at work just to keep 'em away from my face. Co'se Avon makes some oily stuff that keeps 'em away, and Oil of Citronella works, too. But, since I enjoy the aroma of the Grenadiers much more than the Skin So Soft, I light'em up!

Yankees passin' through think we are the friendliest folks, a'wavin' all day.

SRH

My ancestors were drinking beer and schnapps in Germany while the War of Northern Aggression was going on so I'm not a Yankee or a Dixie. I will say this though, after living/working in Alaska for 2 years I'll take your southern gnats long before Alaskan mosquitoes. I almost needed a blood transfusion until I discovered Cutter's brand insect repellent and little smouldering piles of Buhach. I suggest you try it. The stuff works wonders on the pesky little devils. By the way could you explain the holes in the britches joke?

J.R.B.,

These little boogers don't bite, sting or anything like that. They just love to crawl around on you in your sweat, and will crawl up your nose, in your eyes, ears and any other bare skinned place on you. Take a deep breath suddenly and they go down your windpipe. As I said, they crawl around on animals, too. They have been blamed for conjunctivitis (sore eyes) among other things. Try to eat barbecued pork and you might as well cover the meat with pepper so's you can't see the gnats. You can't ignore them. They are worse in very humid hot weather, and only exist in worrisome numbers South of the Fall Line in the Southeast U.S. In the fall when the mornings are cool they swarm over the highway in a swarm that may number in the hundreds of thousands, trying to find a warm spot in the sun. They laugh at Cutters, and I ain't sure what buhach is. Some kind of cigar?

The joke? "Know how to keep gnats away from your face? Cut a hole in the seat of your pants."

SRH