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There are various kinds of hay--grass hay which can be orchard grass, brome grass, etc. and then the legume hays such as alfalfa and red clover. In the summer after I graduated from HS, I worked on a hay crew in the Wabash River bottoms between Indiana and Illinois. Our employer owned a...

I had a pair of the uninsulated Danner Pronghorns that I hunted in for over a dozen years; wore 'em and liked 'em. Happened to be in Cabela's in MItchell one fall when we saw the Meindl lightweight uninsulated boots, tried those on and bought them--about $190 as I recall---they work very well...

Sorry to respectfully disagree---BUT one certainly does not need 1 1/4 ounce loads to kill pheasants. I've used 1 1/8 ounce 16 gauge Remington Express (green/yellow box) #5's and 6's for years and successfully harvested birds with very few lost. For that matter, in the early to mid-1990's when...

Yesterday I was in a local WalMart and they had 1 box of Winchester Super X High Brass , 16 gauge1 1/8 ounce of #6's for $13.99. I have plenty of 16 gauge pheasant loads so left them. But they are around; it just takes time and gas to find them and you can't hesitate or be too picky, or they're...

In northern Indiana/SW Michigan we have Meijer stores, akin to Wal Mart. Today while shopping, I visited one and they had 3 boxes of Winchester Super X 12 gauge 1 ounce #7.5 loads for $7.99. I have enough 12's so left those alone, but they also had 7 boxes of Winchester 20 gauge Super X, 7/8...

Hey "good boy"--you don't have the corner on hard luck stories; all you have to do is visit a few Native American reservations in pheasant country (ND or SD) and you will see Third World at its grittiest. I suppose you'll tell me now how much worse it was in Outer Mongolia or some damn place but...

I use a Boyt blaze orange and have been very satisfied with it. As is said above, each to his own...as for me , if I spend $300 on a hunting article, it's either going to go "woof, woof" or "blam"....

I've used Winchester Blindside when I shoot a 12 gauge. I use the 3" load of 1 3/8 ounces of #2 shot and it works very well on the mid to late season mallards we shoot around here. On pheasants I don't have much confidence in STEEL (not Bismuth, Hevi-shot or Boss which seem to work ok) as it is...

...but you still must swing whatever you're shooting with enough "zest" to get the job done in that last hour of light at the end of a long hike, when good opportunities present themselves. You'll be carrying the gun, in a typical pheasant season, more than you'll be shooting it. Clay targets...

Gobbler: Others have said this and I will reiterate that a very workable answer to your "12 vs. 20" question is a 16 gauge gun--particularly for pheasants. I have used both a Merkel 1620 side by side weighing about 6 lbs., and in the last two years, a Browning (new) A5, also weighing just shy...

Hope you are right, McFarmer, we are hunting just a few miles south of there this fall. Looking forward to it!

Never said I couldn't--but why would anyone in their right mind WANT to--when other options are available that leave a hunter fresh enough to swing that gun adroitly on that last rooster flush of the day? If you've been carrying 7 to 8 lb. guns for over 60 years--maybe it's time to earn new...

The 16 is too heavy for vigorous field work in a 26 or 28" configuration, unless you are a lot bigger or stronger than I am.. That's why you don't find too many around today. If you peruse the www.16 ga..com forum, at the time that gun came out, there were numerous complaints about the weight...

Dakota--I beg to differ; I don't believe the 16 gauge BPS is built on a 20 gauge frame; you can check with the "experts" at www.16ga.com. I'd get a hernia carrying my 16 ga. 28" BPS in the field all day. I just weighed my own gun and it weighs 7.7 lbs. which would be damned heavy for a 16 on a...

Just bought a 4-pack of Estate 12 gauge competition loads--1 ounce, #71/2 shot for $23.76 at the local Wal Mart. They also had 12 gauge AA 1 1/8 ounce #8's for $7.87/box but I left those, I already have quite a few loaded shells in 12, 16 and 20 gauge. It seems they are getting easier to find.

I've had a 16 gauge, 28" barreled BPS for several years now. It is a very reliable shotgun, but it is noticeably heavier than the other 16's I have--the Merkel 1620 weighs about 6 lbs., the new Browning A5 about 5 lbs. 14 ounces, the Model 12 is heavier (over 6 lbs, don't know exactly) and the...

To paraphrase Scarlett O'Hara (and with apologies to Margaret Mitchell) "As God is my witness, I'll never be without ammo again!"

Of course it also depends on the bird.....Duck? Grouse? Quail in a multiflora Rose thicket? Sharptails flushing wild on an unending prairie? Rooster hammering out of the cattails about 3 feet in front of you? Makes a difference....

Bought more Remington 16 gauge #7 1/2 Game Loads at Wal Mart today, $9.23/box WITH TAX. They work well on targets too.

Good to hear, BPA....headed to NW Iowa for a couple of days of pheasant hunting in early November on our way to South Dakota