This is just an update. I posted on another thread yesterday that I was going to really test the little Dickinson today on late season doves. I've never shot big, old tough late-season doves with a .410, but the confidence I gained with the Dickinson in the mid-season gave me some bravado.
We really had a good shoot today for the late season, in one of my bigger peanut fields. We didn't have nearly enough guns to keep them flying. I think we had about 12-13 people to show up to shoot a 96 acre field. They were alighting between guns, but, all in all a good shoot.
I started out poorly, having shot the big 32" BE Fox the last few times I've been out, I guess my muscle memory was expecting it. I only killed one out of the first eight shells, then the old groove returned and the little Dickinson went to work as it should. I killed the next fourteen with 29 shells. So, the limit of 15 was achieved with 37 shells. Now, I know that is not shooting to brag about under most conditions, but we did have a 20-25 mph north wind this afternoon, and that makes big mature doves pretty sporty, especially for a .410.
I think this gun is going to get more and more use on birds for me in the years to come, God willing. It is just so much more fun than the big guns. No wounded and lost birds, either. Used 11/16 Oz. 7 1/2s, RIOs.
Until next shoot, SRH
