|
S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
|
|
|
0 members (),
924
guests, and
6
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums10
Topics38,501
Posts545,497
Members14,414
| |
Most Online1,344
Apr 29th, 2024
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 7
Boxlock
|
Boxlock
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 7 |
I will be taking 2 guns and one yellow lab. One gun will be a CZ Ringneck 20ga I have had for a few yrs, the other will be a new Fabarm Classis 12ga. Got the Fabarm out and patterned it yesterday. Dog was all excited about going shooting with me, torqued that there was nothing to retrieve. photobucket photobucket
Last edited by 209jones; 08/18/14 12:00 PM. Reason: afigured out how to post pics
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 244
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 244 |
I will be somewhere in the Rockies chasing dusky grouse with: this knucklehead  and this sweet wand  hoping to do this again 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 4,081 Likes: 473
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 4,081 Likes: 473 |
This Sept. 1 will find me afield again with Cocoa, now five, and my Manufrance Ideal 16, tossing 3/4 oz reloads at the feathered fighters on afterburner.
Wingshooter, what year and model Ideal? Gil
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 27
Boxlock
|
|
Boxlock
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 27 |
Just picked up a new Beretta SP III sporting 20/28 bore W/30" barrels from Joel Etchen two weeks ago. So I'll start out missing them with that one.
Vern
Every true upland hunter should, in his lifetime, have one good shotgun and one good bird dog.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 582
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 582 |
This Sept. 1 will find me afield again with Cocoa, now five, and my Manufrance Ideal 16, tossing 3/4 oz reloads at the feathered fighters on afterburner.
Wingshooter, what year and model Ideal? Gil It is a 314 made in 1937. I found a set of barrels in the white in France, and Kirk Merrington has agreed to fit them up to the gun. The chokes will be opened to .000 and .007. The original barrels are at about .028 in the right and OMG Boston Strangler tight in the left, but pattern beautifully with my 3/4 oz loads. Thus the second set of barrels. May be the only Ideal in North America with two sets of barrels. Looking forward to my grade 5 getting here, but that's prolly still a ways off: 1925, full coverage engraving, straight English stock, 16 of course. It looks swift and sexy just resting on a table, can't wait to see how she handles. Will prolly have that one opened to .005 and .015.
Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 342
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 342 |
This my mountain grouse combo.  
Jim
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 45
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 45 |
Pardon me, the powers that be have decided that there will NOT be a special Texas South Zone Dove season this year, so I will sitting at home with a cold ice tea. The regular South Zone season begins 19 Sept by which time 75% of the time a cold front with rain has come through and there are no dove left. Or perhaps I will be shooting sporting clays at the National Shooting Complex, having decided not to get a Texas license at all. A. Given we haven't been droughted out and some whitewings are left, I prolly use my AYA 28 Gauge with both GSPs. B. If the birds are flying high it'll be my 16 gauge Parker.  The last really good dove year around here: 2007  Opening day last year about 530PM. It was 102 deg F in the shade and Reba and I had enough and hopped into the truck, fired it up, turned on the AC and went home. 2 hours of 100 deg + temperatures is just no fun.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 28
Boxlock
|
|
Boxlock
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 28 |
Opening morning of Dove season is 9/1 here in Missouri, will be out with a single shot 16ga hammer gun my Dad bought when he was in high school. Goes off about 75% of the time, doesn't eject and has to be disassembled to remove the fired shell. This will be the 5th opening day with this gun, inherited it when my Father passed. Best way to take my Dad's memories hunting with me every year....
8 yr old yellow female lab may or may not go depending on temp, but she will be out 9/6 for the Teal opener!!!
Good luck to all and be safe!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 2,268 Likes: 93
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 2,268 Likes: 93 |
shinbone....... Love the dog, gun and beautiful country.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,618 Likes: 7
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,618 Likes: 7 |
First morning will be with a Manufrance Simplex single shot sixteen, to test my theory that I will shoot half as many shells. From there a Simson 20.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
|
|
|
|
|
