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Anyone ever use the gps off of their pointy dog when they make a retrieve to determine how far a shot was. I’ d guess 95 percent of mine over a flushing dog are 20 to 40 , just a guess I really have no clue !
 
benelli-banger said:
I shoot lots of my roosters with my benelli ultralight…love that gun! 12 gauge, 6 lbs…
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Yes, the Benelli is awesome. Probably one of the lightest 12 gauge semiautos out there. i bought the Winchester sx4 as it was light at around 6 lbs 8 oz and decent all day carry. Between hunting eastern Washington hills, lots of up and down and then North Dakota at Least once a year it’s done a decent job in the field. Usually get in 50+ days of hunting.
 
When I first started hunting SD, in ‘93, we could buy Federal 12 gauge 2 3/4” 1 3/8 oz of lead @ 1500 fps….like $7.99…some days I went through more than 2 boxes! I was shooting a Montefeltro with 5 shots…I know there at least a few days it was close to 3 boxes….group hunting…15 birds in the vest was my high day…lots in the 10-12 range…I once shot 8 in about 10 minutes…was stationary next to a slough that guys in my gang were walking through…I was standing where a finger of cover came out into the picked corn…birds were funneling into that finger, then flushing…crazy. But all those crazy #’s of birds, and hunters, made for frenetic, frazzled hunting….I really love solo hunting, or one other guy…I don‘t need hundreds of birds or more to enjoy the hunt…but those #’s, 1’000’s at times, were something to see!
 
BrownDogsCan2 said:
Anyone ever use the gps off of their pointy dog when they make a retrieve to determine how far a shot was. I’ d guess 95 percent of mine over a flushing dog are 20 to 40 , just a guess I really have no clue !
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No. No pointy dog & no GPS, but I feel like I have a pretty good idea that likewise, 90% or more are 20-40 yd shots. This was one of my most satisfying roosters of last season, not because I made the shot (although it was really fun), but because we flushed the bird at all, played the wind right, & actually GOT a shot. We'd seen him lite & decided to change plans & give him a whirl, figuring a bird in the bush one way was worth 2 that MIGHT be in the bush the other way. So that's what all the celebrating is MOSTLY about. Plus we'd gotten our limit w/ just 2 shells. Anyway, Ace was a little birdy, just getting a whiff here & there; then at 20:50 we can see he's smelling him pretty good; and at 21:06 he goes into overdrive. I figure the shot was about 40 yds, but I think he hit the frozen mud at about 65 or so. I wish I'd actually paced it off.

 
benelli-banger said:
When I first started hunting SD, in ‘93, we could buy Federal 12 gauge 2 3/4” 1 3/8 oz of lead @ 1500 fps….like $7.99…some days I went through more than 2 boxes! I was shooting a Montefeltro with 5 shots…I know there at least a few days it was close to 3 boxes….group hunting…15 birds in the vest was my high day…lots in the 10-12 range…I once shot 8 in about 10 minutes…was stationary next to a slough that guys in my gang were walking through…I was standing where a finger of cover came out into the picked corn…birds were funneling into that finger, then flushing…crazy. But all those crazy #’s of birds, and hunters, made for frenetic, frazzled hunting….I really love solo hunting, or one other guy…I don‘t need hundreds of birds or more to enjoy the hunt…but those #’s, 1’000’s at times, were something to see!
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I bought a Montefeltro in 92 or 93, which was my primary "everything but doves" gun until I got my Sweet 16 in 99 or 2000. Benellis of that era still could do the Benelli trick & sneak an extra shell below the bolt. I did it fairly regularly, but don't think I ever shot all 6.
 
I recall hunting in mid-Nov this fall in SD in extreme wind! Had some shots like yours, contorting in a 180 fashion as the bird rockets overhead…some got away, some didn’t…made some shots that surprised me! I think it was the week where deer opener out there was the Saturday of the hunt…around the 19th?
 
benelli-banger said:
I recall hunting in mid-Nov this fall in SD in extreme wind! Had some shots like yours, contorting in a 180 fashion as the bird rockets overhead…some got away, some didn’t…made some shots that surprised me! I think it was the week where deer opener out there was the Saturday of the hunt…around the 19th?
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That video was Sunday, Nov. 20, the 2nd day of East River Deer.
 
In the past 7-10 years, November has provided some of the harshest weather for me more often than not…I hunt a lot in Dec and Jan…been lots of wind, and cold, and snow in Nov…often all 3! Seems to have fallen between the 8th-25th or so, mostly the 10th-20th…
 
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