CZ & Joe: I get it. Never felt so useless with a double before as when a big covey boils up and over you. Never even considered a "game destroyer" before this point but getting caught with an empty open gun as additional birds keep getting up is pretty frustrating. It shouldn't be a numbers game but at the end of the day, when your fellow hunters and dogs are nearing exhaustion and you still have planted birds left unharvested you wish you'd of been better prepared.
I have a 12g Montefeltro with 27.5" barrels that weighs 6lbs 13 oz. I rarely shoot it but when I do I shoot top scores for me at sporting. The only advice I have is don't shoot 100 rounds with 1 1/8 oz higher dram loads unless your shoulder doctor's office is nearby. Guess how I know.
Stan: a pumper is the obvious alternative and I do have a few, nothing small and light at the moment, unfortunately. Everything is on loan, and in different time zones.
Ted: No question, that little 17 was pretty impressive. 99 times out of 100 my doubles are superior for what I'm doing. This quail hunt would possibly be the one exception. This is a want versus need situation... and when isn't it? Clearly, a first world problem.
Are you shooting at an “all you can eat” style preserve?
When I am actually “hunting”, I can increase my satisfaction by focusing on first shot kills.
I’ll be late season quail hunting for a good while starting the end of this month, and I am quite content to see them flying away after the second shot. If for no other reason than having more than two on the ground simultaneously is a recovery headache.
The auto he seeks isn’t actually for, “hunting”. Preserve days, or, as my friend Lloyd waxes poetically “Pet and shoot” days. I’ve experienced the phenomenon of the staff duly placing dizzy birds in a spread, an hour or so before the scheduled time, and having the birds get undizzy, and group up together somewhere, unsure about what to do with the sudden freedom, and wondering when is lunch served?
It is a first world problem. If 1100s were still selling for $250-$350 in the local haunts, like they did for perhaps three decades, it would be a non-issue. But who the hell wants, at age 60+ years, to fork over $800+ for a gun that gets used to sharpen up the dog every other year?
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