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Nice Parker Don...It's good to see a gun with honest use...the tales of hits and misses she could tell.

When I saw your Parker it brought back memories of a turkey hunt in Madison Georgia....with an older gentleman that carried a similar Parker he had owned since he was a young boy....sad for wear his ammo not much better but with honest memories of it's intended use.

When are we going Lowell ?...I'll bring the Scott.

I see the duck. Where's the Parker?

jack

Some nice guns shown here - a lot nicer than anything I'd dare to take waterfowling! My duck guns have been scraped along the metal coaming of my duck boat, dropped onto rivets on the boat's floor, swamped with marshwater and duckweed, showered with dirt in goose pits, frozen, drenched, sprayed with camo paint, even done double duty once or twice as push poles and oars.

Are you guys so rich you can afford to abuse such lovely SxSs? Or are they just fair weather "photo op" guns?

Do you really use a gun for a paddle ?

In half a century of all-weather, full-season Minnesota duck hunting, you do a lot of things as a consequence of mishaps...and not the kind of things that get written up in the romantic waterfowling tales!

The 'Remington 1100 paddle' episode happened when my father-in-law got his push-pole stuck in the muck and didn't let go. He pulled himself backward and overboard as the duck boat coasted onward, and my gunstock was the most immediately available means of propulsion for his rescue.

Note: please don't try this in home waters with your Parker...

Do we unload before we paddle with repeating shotguns? It's been so long, I don't remember. If I had the presence of mind to plan, I would probably unload the chamber and leave the shells in the magazine in case something flew over.

Jack, I'm not. I don't use my doubles for ALL duck hunting, but I do for some. The hunt I described in my earlier post saw a black 390 Beretta in use. I was wading in deep water and knew a nice double would likely be in jeopardy, but the very next day saw me in a blind on the Cache River with my Super Fox HE. I refuse to own a gun that I will not use for it's intended purpose occasionally, though I will admit to "pickin' and choosin" my times for them.

I will use my old (olde, for Lowell) doubles in blinds and occasionally while drifting the creeks and rivers in my camoed (sp.?) kayak, but usually not when wading in deep water where I may fall. And no, I wouldn't use my HE for a paddle even if I had to spend the night in the swamp.

Stan

I thought this might be a good opportunity to interject a duck story from the 70s. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. A friend and I had been invited to join another friend who had a duck blind on the Platte river west of North Platte where it flows out of the big impoundment there. The blind was in the middle of the river so we had to wade out to it. Don and I had borrowed waders from Joes family so we were in the process of putting them on in the dark. Joe and I had no problem but Don was somewhat rotund and could only get the waders up so far. Joe and I got on each side told Don to "suck it in" and proceded to pull them up as much as possible. I went out and checked the water depth and we felt we had at least a couple of inches to spare. We proceeded across the river an suddenly an incredible amout of cussing came out of Dons mouth. We we got to the blind we found out why as 2 things had happened.
1.BOTH pair of Dons pants had fallen down inside his waders.
2.The waders had a pinhole leak and he was being sprayed in a sensitive area all the way across.
Joe and I missed the first several ducks the came over mainly because we couldn't stop laughing.
Jim

Do you know a good Waterfowl Romance Novel ?....I've never read one.