double? or 2 in a row?

I would say they probably have to come from the same flush.

A few years ago when I was living in SD, I was out walking ditches without my dog. I had several friends/family coming into town the next day for several days of hunting, so I chose to rest my dog up as I went out for a quick evening hunt by myself. I shoot a double, one bird lands and runs up the ditch to my right, the other bird lands and runs down the ditch to my left. I chase off after one and never found it. Then awhile later decide to head the other way and never found that one either. After that I have just avoided shooting doubles and concentrating on the first bird only. Maybe someday I'll become a good enough shot where "time stands still" and I can easily zone in on a few birds.
 
Two birds or in this case three birds in the air simultaneously. Whether they are all from the same flush is semantics, otherwise they are as we say in sporting clays "report pairs" or "following pairs"
 
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jackrabbit said:
I would say they probably have to come from the same flush.

A few years ago when I was living in SD, I was out walking ditches without my dog. I had several friends/family coming into town the next day for several days of hunting, so I chose to rest my dog up as I went out for a quick evening hunt by myself. I shoot a double, one bird lands and runs up the ditch to my right, the other bird lands and runs down the ditch to my left. I chase off after one and never found it. Then awhile later decide to head the other way and never found that one either. After that I have just avoided shooting doubles and concentrating on the first bird only. Maybe someday I'll become a good enough shot where "time stands still" and I can easily zone in on a few birds.
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With your dog I'm sure you would of had 1 bird to bring home probably not both my first 2-3 doubles only got 1 outta 2...

Always bring the or a dog is the lesson I take away from this tale... Just mess n
 
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What do you call shooting two birds with one shot?
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Other then not common occurrence I always called it 2 birds with 1 stone? Or 2 with 1 shot...

That's how u get a triple or quadruple & not using a plug... Except for waterfowl...

I shot 3 teal with 2 shots missed last shot or coulda had a quadruple... All luck... Mite notta been a triple I had to finish 1 teal off with final 4th shot??.
 
If you bag two chicks in the same night, it might make you lucky, but it don't make it a menage-a-trois.
 
Tripps

Hunting in N dakota this year got a triple.
Was just in right spot when my dog ran into a small tree patch in the
Middle of an open field.i had just moved around patch on a hill.
When she flushed about 25 birds in one flush.All the birds did not know I was there they flew right by me almost at me.
It was a easy shooting I even pulled up on 4th rooster and found I was out of shells.Good think because it would be over limit.
I could not help my self.All three birds DOA on ground.
Next day I could not hit a bird with a truck.
I think it was a flush of a life time perfect timing
 
True doubles, are very rare. Two birds flush at the same time. In 46 years of hunting, I've only done it twice.
 
I have not been attempting doubles for a number of years, as I hunt sans dog most of the time, and don't want to lose one bird, or both. So, I drop one, recover (or chase) it, and call it "good".

However, I hunted Monday with a friend who does have a dog. The cover was grassy, but not too thick. Three birds flushed, with one going straight out in front of him, and two went behind me. I spun, and dropped one. It looked like he folded hard (doesn't mean a thing, though!), and the other was over open ground between the grass and the corn field. I decided to go ahead and shoot, since we had a dog with us. Dropped him! True Double!! And, both were dead, so no dog needed for the recovery!!!

See the video of this situation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxryc4i6iw8. I am on the right side of the frame, when you can see me. And, while brief, you can see both my birds in the air (at 1:20 - 1:30).

It was a nice feeling, dropping two, and recovering them both. We still worked hard for the rest of the birds we got that day, so our hunt was not cut short due to my double. Doubt I will try it again soon, though, as I know part of this was luck.

Happy hunting, for the rest of the season!
 
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"Any roosters?"

At first, I thought "well, yeah, all roosters". Then, I re-read, and realized I had not said we were pheasant hunting.

So, yes, all were roosters. While I have seen prairie chickens out there in the past, I have not seen any this year. Only pheasant, and lots of them. It has been a good season, so far!
 
So is this a double? Or a two in a row?

We were walking a hedge and a covey of quail broke from both sides. I shot one and shot at a second from the break. Now, the second quail made a slight veer and crashed head first into an old oil tank in front of me. I picked it up dead on the ground.

Did I double or 2-fer? Or get really lucky?
 
CharBroiled said:
So is this a double? Or a two in a row?

We were walking a hedge and a covey of quail broke from both sides. I shot one and shot at a second from the break. Now, the second quail made a slight veer and crashed head first into an old oil tank in front of me. I picked it up dead on the ground.

Did I double or 2-fer? Or get really lucky?
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Ever look at football defensive stats? I'd give you a 1 1/2er. One for the bird shot and an assist for the kamikaze bird.
 
A couple of people have mentioned not shooting two because they are afraid of not finding the first or second. I tend to follow that practice myself since I hate to lose birds that I have put on the ground.
Just this year I have lost four that I shot as singles. I think my dogs are better than average but a wild rooster with just a broken wing can cover a lot of ground in a very short time in heavy CRP.
I did however shoot a true double this year. Two roosters flushed at the same time from the edge of a CRP field and flew out into winter wheat. I shot the first one and the dogs were on it so I then shot the second. The second one was dead on the ground, the first one was chased down by the dogs.
The bad thing was I was finished hunting after only about twenty minutes since I already had one in my vest.

AM
 
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