I am most happy to hear of your good health and fine physical condition, Francis. But, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the reason many of us are enamored of the sub-gauge guns. I'm in pretty good shape myself, and work and run a row-crop farm full time, but matching the gauge to the bird has naught to do with strength or stamina. You chase ditch roosters, fine. I use a 12 ga. exclusively for ducks, too. But, it is immensely more fun, and just as productive for me, to use .410s through 16s for more diminutive game birds ...... doves, quail.

Expand your horizons a bit, ol' man. Accept that there are folks in this world who can do the job on their choice of upland game very well without 1 1/8 of shot.

SRH

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