So when your girl gets to 116, we can send her this post?
Yeah, for trap, I'd take more weight. However, I'd rather shoot birds than trap. Clay doesn't eat very well, but if you like it, Ted, go for it.
I was hunting pheasants one day with a 6# Beretta 686 when some honkers came over. I switched from 1 1/4 oz to 1 7/8 oz and fired two shots. My hunting buddy ran over and yelled "Why did you shoot the second time when it blew up the first time?" I guess it jumped pretty good when I fired and pushed me back quite a bit. Right round and gun for the right game.
There is a difference between hunting and clays. Light guns are much quicker and a greater joy to carry in certain circumstances. I thoroughly enjoy chukar hunting, but they are devilish creatures and love running uphill to create heart attacks for hunters and their old dogs alike. Being a devilish creature myself, I fish during the day and chukar hunt in the late afternoon. I drive to the base of a 20' wall of rimrock curving away from me and hunt as they are beginning to roost. They fly downhill and run back up out of sight along the curve of the rimrock. I pick up my birds which allows them time to get back up to roost again. I then go further around the curve and am into them again. My only uphill/downhill movement is to pick up birds or have my dog do all the work. After a half mile of easy walking, I turn around and do it all over again. All I have to worry about is the change from left hand flushes to right hand flushes. A 6# gun is a joy even for easy walking. My biggest hunting problem without a dog now is telling the difference between the gray back of the chukar and the gray rock on the ground and the yellow breasts from the yellow cheat grass. You can look right at them and not see them.
Taking photos today.
Ted, what is your recipe for clays?
