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Mike, at 2 minutes, if you listen carefully, you can hear a bob calling...Gil

You can! Good ear Gil!

I have gone deaf in my left ear in the frequency of a bobwhite's call. I used to be able to walk within twenty yards after hearing a bobwhite calling. Now, no matter which way I turn, the calling bobwhite is always to my right.

"KY Jon you were describing Joe Wood's shooting, not mine."

Well if you watch a dog scratch at a flea long enough you will get an itch yourself. Teaching is a dangerous profession and the risk is the teacher and student becoming one and neither if them being able to hit the side of a barn when done. Just be careful is all that I am saying.

I still think you should go back to a single pellet in each shell and increase one pellet per shot until the problem returns. I know a shooter of your ability can kill close birds with just the wads but sometimes they, the wads, fly funny. So just start with the wad and a single pellet. Who knows you might get up to five or six pellets before the second bird falls. Then you know the simple answer is to reduce back the the safe number of pellets. Better for the environment as well. Not so much wasted lead falling all over the place like when Joe fills the sky in hopes of some freak of nature hit on a out of luck bird.

"I have seen Gary shoot and he would be better off carrying a sling shot instead of a shotgun when he quail hunts. He would get just as many birds and save about fifty cents on every covey rise."

Not a bad idea, Mikey.....except it's a little hard to put engraving on a slingshot.

You can engrave this:



And you can have it custom stocked with 36LPI checkering.

Egads, a black "assault" slingshot! You might have to register that one.

Best,
Ted

PS I have often wondered about Mike's ability to shoot well with guns having 0 to 8 inches of drop, but, his shooting student forwarded a family photo that explains it quite well for me.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Coneheads_Poster.jpg

[quote=Ted Schefelbein

Egads, a black "assault" slingshot! You might have to register that one.

Best,
Ted




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NY prohibits pants pockets capable of carrying more than 10 rocks.

Mike and Joe both practice the "Ichabod Crane" style of shooting....

This is from Gary's most recent auroch hunt:


As you can see Gary has no neck and so must shoot a gun with 1" DAH and 3-1/2" of castoff.

Mike(with his rabbit hounds), Joe, and friends in their early days; before they learned shooting flying.........