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Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 278 Location: Texas

Even though Mr. Peaches has apologized to me for not believing what i told him, it is this type of response that make me question why I even bother to try to educate someone when they ask a question.
I am not in the habit of putting out counterfeit information or old half truths and wives tales. I may well get something wrong from time to time, but I try to correct it if I can.
I am getting too old and cantankerous for this shit! Sad

Joined: 06 Feb 2011 Posts: 21 Location: MN

With a little practice you can reload a single shot quickly for a second shot.
I was jump shooting not pass shooting or decoying.

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Ole Cowboy, Very Happy

Where in Texas do you reside?
I am in Amarillo,
Come up here and let us PLAY
I have the keys to the skeet range
In fact, I am shooting skeet tomorrow morning with my 16 gauge Citori
or which other 16 crys the loudest Rolling Eyes

Mike

Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 45 Location: SC

Don't remember the year but I was probably about 10, which would put it about 1979. I had killed a few sitting doves around the yard with my trusty Crosman air gun but had never been on an actual "bird hunt". Dad had given me my first shotgun a few months earlier, a Stevens model 94 20ga single barrel. One evening he came home from work and told me we were going on a dove hunt that Saturday. I was so hyped up, I probably didn't sleep a wink for the next few nights until Saturday rolled around.

That morning, we met up with my uncle and my cousin. My cuz was a few years older than me and was already a seasoned bird hunter. I vividly remember he carried a Browning Sweet Sixteen. We drove about an hour away to a farm where the shoot was to take place. Turned out it was a hog farm and the hogs roamed freely in the corn field we would be hunting. It was bitterly cold so it was a late season hunt in either December or January.

My dad and I sat together about 100 yards from my dead-eyed cousin who seemed to be dropping birds left and right. I vividly remember him having to race to his downed birds to reach them before the hogs did. The hogs would watch the sky for falling birds and would run to them, hell bent for leather, and gobble the birds up before the hunter could get to them. It was hilarious. My dad carried his only shotgun, a Winchester 1911 SL 12ga, choked cylinder. The birds were flying high and he was having a hard time reaching them. I had 2 boxes of Remington Sure-Shot #6s and hopelessly banged away the better part of the first box. I was getting frustrated. Finally 3 doves came high over head, "carrying the mail" in tight formation and I threw the Stevens up and sent a Hail Mary in their direction. To my utter shock, one of them staggered and crash dived into the neighboring field that was seperated from our field by a fence. Dad pounded me on the back and yelled "Good shot son! Now go get him before the hogs do!" I took off at a dead run and picked up the dove what seemed like a hundred yards away. My young mind might have magnified the distance...

As the day went on, I killed 3 more doves, one of which I lost to the hogs. I think my Dad ended up with 7 and of course my cousin got his limit with that lovely Sweet Sixteen. To this day, I can vividly remember the sight of that first dove staggering in the air and dive bombing into the dirt.

Joined: 26 Apr 2010 Posts: 3185 Location: NCWa

I wasn't aware that the 22 shot cartridges had a "sporting" use. We used them on the farm for shooting birds, generally pigeons, that got inside the barn. Those little 22s with #12 shot could be shot inside the barn and not damage the roof.

Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 278 Location: Texas

Member Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 278 Location: Texas

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Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 696 Location: WA/AK

The Remington Model 121 smoothbore with the 23 1/2 inch barrel bored to Routledge specifications are highly prized special order collector items. There is also the Model 121 Skeetrap with a 25 inch barrel bored to Loewi specifications.

Peaches2, DON'T YOU DARE QUIT!! You did absolutely nothing wrong.

If Ole Cowboy got his undies in a wad, so what? He'll get over it or he won't.

I, for one have enjoyed your posts, and especially your stories.

Don't let the 'ol boys run you off. I am no spring chicken and have been hunting damn near 60 years now, and I didn't know about the mosquito skeet. So what,who gives a damn?

You stay around and post as often as you want, AND ask any questions that come in your mind.

REAL gentlemen will give you an answer without trying to embarass you.

I ENJOY having a woman on this forum, for your point of view, and your real life stories.

Hang in there.

Dale

He he he he
You know the other day a lady asked me what my phone number was.
I answered BR549 and smiled.
She gave me this look Shocked

I then had to explain what the HE HAW Television show was and who Junior Samples was and
She gave me this look Rolling Eyes

I think this is an example of we know because we are OLD

Enjoy the day and mellow out all
Very Happy

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