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You're a great photographer as well as a great shot, Skip.
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It was a great day. Many thanks to Gil, Abby and Willa. They all worked their butts off to find birds, and find them they did. I've hunted over a lot of good birddogs in my time, but none better than these. They should have been in the foreground, not me.
I'm very grateful.
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There was a chance of rain today so I carried a gun usually reserved for days when conditions could go south. It is a 70's era 20 ga made by Jose Uriguen. The little working man's, hardware store gun performed well and knocked down the first seven birds with seven shots fired. The pressure then got to be too much for me and I missed a shot I should not have taken. Once a perfect run was out of the question I regained my composure and picked up my last bird. Lovely crisp 20g there,looks new!!!
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Skip, you always take the best photos. The way you shoot you don't need to find many to get a limit. Gil
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Went to the Oregon coast yesterday and used my Lefever GE grade "tournament" gun (a previous owwner put a silver shield on the stock). This gun has f/f chokes, heavy steel barrels and factory 2 7/8" chambers, so it can digest stout loads with aplomb if need be. This big greenhead is the first bird I've taken with it. I was worried about using it in saltwater, but I bought it to use it, so a spray coating of rustguard and a coat of wax did the trick, and there was zero rust.
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Beautiful Lefever. I have several friends here in Florida that hunt waterfowl at the coast. I haven't done it for fear of rust from salt. Kudos to you for using yours as it was intended to be used.
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Skip, you always take the best photos. The way you shoot you don't need to find many to get a limit. Gil Gil, very kind of you (and Stan earlier) to say that. The last couple of days I've had to improvise. I probably have at least thirty bird straps and the last two times I have left the house without one. Yesterday I just tossed everything up on a fence post and hoped for the best.
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No hunting unfortunately, but we got out for some inshore fishing yesterday and caught a ton. Just before the rain came it.
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Lovely crisp 20g there,looks new!!! It was made between 1974-1976. I would have to look it up to tell you exactly. I've only owned for about fifteen years. I hunted with it quite a bit for a few years but then it became the gun I usually carry when the forecast calls for a good chance of rain. I gave $325 for it and it looked like it could have been unused. Today it has a few minor battle scars on the stock. The importer as stamped on the underside of one of the tubes was York Cutlery. I'm not sure how that worked, perhaps if you bought a set of steak knives you got an inexpensive but fairly serviceable bird gun.
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Really muddy today, flushed two, bagged one and missed one. A great day on the plains.
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