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I agree with Chuck about shot sizes on doves, although I have had good success on early season mourning doves with #8s.

SRH

Chuck, if you're able to visit the Dickinson importer, I'd be real interested in hearing what you learn about them and the guns.

Jay

Stan do the barrels touch at muzzles? What about anyone owning a 28 gauge do barrels touch at muzzles? Bobby

Bobby, my Dickinson .410 with 28" barrels do not touch at the muzzle, but the 28-ga. Dickinsons with 28" barrels do. You can see that for yourself by clicking on this link: http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-fo...un_id=100583938

I got in late tonight, Bobby. I'll look at it tomorrow and see. I looked at the muzzles to see how much meat was in them, in case I want to put screw in chokes in them, but don't remember noticing whether or not they touched.

SRH

The reply I received from Dickinson indicated they have no showroom and advised I visit Pacific Sporting Arms.

This is just an update. I posted on another thread yesterday that I was going to really test the little Dickinson today on late season doves. I've never shot big, old tough late-season doves with a .410, but the confidence I gained with the Dickinson in the mid-season gave me some bravado.

We really had a good shoot today for the late season, in one of my bigger peanut fields. We didn't have nearly enough guns to keep them flying. I think we had about 12-13 people to show up to shoot a 96 acre field. They were alighting between guns, but, all in all a good shoot.

I started out poorly, having shot the big 32" BE Fox the last few times I've been out, I guess my muscle memory was expecting it. I only killed one out of the first eight shells, then the old groove returned and the little Dickinson went to work as it should. I killed the next fourteen with 29 shells. So, the limit of 15 was achieved with 37 shells. Now, I know that is not shooting to brag about under most conditions, but we did have a 20-25 mph north wind this afternoon, and that makes big mature doves pretty sporty, especially for a .410.

I think this gun is going to get more and more use on birds for me in the years to come, God willing. It is just so much more fun than the big guns. No wounded and lost birds, either. Used 11/16 Oz. 7 1/2s, RIOs.

Until next shoot, SRH

Stan with the way the wind was blowing today that was great shooting with the 410 or any gauge for that matter! Bobby

Stan if you went 25X25 you call it skeet and soon get bored with it. And 15X37 sounds like it was a heck of a lot of fun. I know about your problem getting enough people to shoot late season fields. I tried to get a group to hunt a large field opening day of our late season. Ended up with no one willing to shoot other than my son.

Going to shoot next to a sod farm tomorrow. It will all be pass shooting doves as they trade back and forth over a hedge row. Find the right spot along the hedge row and it can be a lot of fast action shooting. Long shots with little warning or in your face shots with no warning. Best thing is that finding the birds is a snap over well cut grass fields. Being a more modest shot I am forced to take my 28.

i would have been very disappointed if I had shot my 20, or my 12, like that, Bobby. Funny thing is, it just doesn't bother me as much with the little gun. I killed two sets of true doubles with it today, after I got in the groove, a right then a left. Now that is really satisfying with the little gun.

For shooting like you describe the 28 will be much better, I think Jon. Good luck tomorrow. We will probably shoot this peanut field again two weeks from today, if enough birds are still there. Plenty enough time for you and Bobby to plan to be here with me and help us out on this big field.

SRH