dawgs14
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So my buddy owns a small house in the SE SD town we hunt near. For the last 25 years I have left a shotgun in the house, year-round. I get there this year for the 2nd weekend and cannot find my shotgun, a Browning hump-back. I come to the false conclusion that one of my buddies mistakenly took it home the year before. No big deal because one of my other friends brought two guns. Our first day, on the first stop, I kill a rooster with the borrowed Benelli but my friend's other shot gun will only shoot once so I insist I use the handicapped gun. Next stop, I kill a rooster with that gun but still only shoots once and jams. At lunch we stop by one of our farmers' house and he loans me his father in-law's full choke, pump Remington I think it was. Later in the day, I take my last rooster with that gun so I am talking all sorts of trash by now right? Day two, I borrow another Benelli from another farmer friend and finish with limits each day. My shooting has declined over the years but I was in the right place at the right time a bunch this trip. Plus the number of birds was insane. In any case I was lucky enough to take a four-day limit with four different guns. A fun first for me but certainly not intentional. The kicker is I got home only to discover my Browning was exactly where I had left it - in its Browning case, in the mud-room, ready to go to SD. I was so excited about the trip and I had trained my brain for so long that I had a gun in SD that it over powered fact - that I brought it home last year to practice with. That or old age has finally caught up with me.
