Mike,
Another great picture documenting your hunt.
I made it out Monday with my buddy and we only managed two birds out of a covey(10 birds) and 1/2(4 birds). The high for the day was about 20 deg and it was blowing 20 knots. We didn't get a point on either covey rise and the birds were in the thickest cover possible. I did manage to drop one bird at about 45 yards with the tight barrel of the 16ga G grade, missed a single that I had a 1/2 second window on and killed a rabbit (3 shots fired all day). My friends English Setter had a nice point on a woodcock(timberdoodle) but they are out of season. My young GSP(13 months) did not do nearly as well with the wild birds as with the pen raised birds he has been worked on. He hunted for 7 hours though and never lost interest. He sleep for two days afterward and my wife thought I had killed him.
Of course I forgot to bring a camera. I wish I had a picture as it was the first wild quail I shot in Maryland since about 1988.
I am supposed to go perserve hunting on Sunday and I am thinking about taking a DE damascus or EE steel (both 12 gauge) and giving the 16ga. a rest. I will try to remember the camera.
Keep the pictures coming. I love to see the hunting scenes with Lefever guns.
I WILL make it to Saskatchewan someday to hunt huns and sharptails. I have only ever shot a few huns about 15 years ago in S. Dakota and thought they were great gamebirds. I even managed to shoot a double on one covey(LUCK!) and really got a swollen head. They are sort of like a overgrow turbocharged bobwhites in open cover.
Keep me in mind if you decide to sell the F grade pictured. You really don't need three 16ga. Lefevers. Might as well spread the wealth!
Fritz
