Well it is almost Dove season again. It's time to pick which gun will be used for each day of the first week of Dove season. I am sure you have favorites. Here are mine and mostly it's because who before me owned the gun or that I shoot the gun well, a rare thing some days.
Opening day will be my late uncles Crescent quail special .410. No non combat wounded man in my family overcame more health and handicap problems to live a full life. Crippled by polio, rheumatic fever terrible arthritis he continued to keep moving forward until the day he passed. That he could drop a quail, rabbit or dove with his handicaps tells me will can overcome almost anything.
Second day is a LC Smith 20 which was my maternal grandfathers. He could not hit the broad side of a barn but he did enjoy going. I think he had a eye dominance problem. He was a fine rifle shot but birds in the air were very safe around him.
Third day will be the Fox A grade 16 which my father used to take his last limit of Doves a few years ago. Day four will be either my new Ithaca Model 37 28 gauge or my Winchester Model 12 28 ga. Which was my first real gun given to me by my father. Day five will depend on how the birds are at that point. Either a 12 if fully educated or maybe a 20 again. So many choices and so few days to use them.
