FCSpringer
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Federal premium 2 3/4" 1 1/4 oz 5 and 6 shot. 1,500 fps pheasants forever box. Best load out there:thumbsup:. But they are getting spendy. I guess everything is though.
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Federal premium 2 3/4" 1 1/4 oz 5 and 6 shot. 1,500 fps pheasants forever box. Best load out there:thumbsup:. But they are getting spendy. I guess everything is though.
quail hound
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26 here and in the 28ga club. Love that sweet little gun and its a shooter, roosters don't like it much though. Hills are steep and cover is think out here, sub gauges are the biz.:cheers: I do carry grandpas 12ga a few times a year but only for nostalgia not for the fire power.
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Yes, If you can't shoot, the side of a barn. Matters very little what shell you buy. If it goes BANG and the bird goes down, It's all good. In short it's not the shell, it's the shooter.
quail hound
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Yes, If you can't shoot, the side of a barn. Matters very little what shell you buy. If it goes BANG and the bird goes down, It's all good. In short it's not the shell, it's the shooter.
That is the truth! I get about 2 months of quail hunting in before pheasant season starts. Pheasants seem really big and slow after that.:cheers:
carptom1
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Come on Tom, that ol' mutt probably couldn't find a tame quail if I put him on the biggest covey in California.
That's pretty funny chit right there
I was thinking today that I am ready to hunt. 44 days till I leave for SD. But who's counting mustistuff
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pheasants
at that speed, how the the pheasants stay airborne anyway. think most of our dove have just left the state, that was a two week season this year, one of the shortest ever, my new aya should be here tomorrow just in time for the dove that just left. oh, well, yes it is a 28 ga. can't ever have enough of them
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at that speed, how the the pheasants stay airborne anyway. think most of our dove have just left the state, that was a two week season this year, one of the shortest ever, my new aya should be here tomorrow just in time for the dove that just left. oh, well, yes it is a 28 ga. can't ever have enough of them
cheers
BritChaser
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I shoot 5s and 6s lead only for pheasant, any brand (cheapest).
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mustistuff
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quail again
that guy in calif. while he mostly uses a neat gun, he has to shoot slow loads in it as fast shot flies right past the quail and he misses then. been trying to teach him something but not making much progress
cheers
that guy in calif. while he mostly uses a neat gun, he has to shoot slow loads in it as fast shot flies right past the quail and he misses then. been trying to teach him something but not making much progress
cheers
carptom1
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Maybe I should get him a launcher with a bigger spring:cheers:
I shoot 1 1/4 oz copper plated 5's at 1200 fps. I have taken just about 800 pheasants in the last 12 years (I have hunted as many as 5 states a year and now hunt about 3). I found that what little effect I got from shooting 1400 fps rounds was negated by the flinch it gave me on my light o/u. I shot a flat of prairie storms I was given from a friend and found them to shoot about a choke and a half tighter than normal. A lot more birds flat out missed or turned inside out than I am used to.
Well, I shoot the Fiocchi Golden Pheasant in 6's. And I do well on everything. I rarely miss, and I have only lost two birds in the last 5 years or so.
Not to brag here, but I have taken 5 honest doubles in the past two years, two on pheasant, two on quail, and one on blue grouse. And I could have had another on pheasant but it was a bright day and I wasn't sure if the second bird flying straight away was a hen or a rooster. Turned out it was a rooster, but by the time I realized that he was out of range....but I had him.
And I used to be a terrible shot. Absolutely terrible. Missed far more than I ever hit. Now it is a genuine surprise if I miss.
There's no secret to good shooting. It is a simple matter of doing a few things right, and then the birds start dropping. I am going to start a new thread on this subject just to clarify.
Not to brag here, but I have taken 5 honest doubles in the past two years, two on pheasant, two on quail, and one on blue grouse. And I could have had another on pheasant but it was a bright day and I wasn't sure if the second bird flying straight away was a hen or a rooster. Turned out it was a rooster, but by the time I realized that he was out of range....but I had him.
And I used to be a terrible shot. Absolutely terrible. Missed far more than I ever hit. Now it is a genuine surprise if I miss.
There's no secret to good shooting. It is a simple matter of doing a few things right, and then the birds start dropping. I am going to start a new thread on this subject just to clarify.
mustistuff
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i don't care what kinda shot you are nor the load or the gun, if you have only lost 2 birds in the last 5 years or so it is cause you haven't shot at and or killed very many, your statistics are kinda funny actually, oh yes, i also don't care what kind of dog or dogs you are using either, maybe it is the pheasant farm stuff you are shooting.
cheers
i don't care what kinda shot you are nor the load or the gun, if you have only lost 2 birds in the last 5 years or so it is cause you haven't shot at and or killed very many, your statistics are kinda funny actually, oh yes, i also don't care what kind of dog or dogs you are using either, maybe it is the pheasant farm stuff you are shooting.
cheers