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Member Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 2170 Location: Florida

What happen Mike , your birds leave ? Nice GECO by the way really like 30" barrels on a double gun .

I'm going again tomorrow hope we still have plenty of birds .

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No, went fishing today.

I was afraid everyone else was tired of these postings
so I quit adding an update.

Thanks for your adventures and helping ways

Mike

Joined: 04 Mar 2016 Posts: 21 Location: Norway

Not tired, please keep updating. Smile

I couldn't find the time to hunt dove this year, but next week I'm going up north for a week of grouse and moose.

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Good stuff
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/AG-3
Mike

And can you just see me in Turkey with a G-3 AND a STEN gun Shocked

WOW, what fun

Mike

Joined: 22 Aug 2015 Posts: 31 Location: Magnolia, TX

I had the opportunity to shoot an HK51 years ago. It was a G3 cut down to about the size of an MP5. Not sure how practical it was, but it was a flame throwing hoot to shoot!

Member Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 2170 Location: Florida

Mike we never tire of your daily adventures

OK, Today

16 gauge Belgium double trigger O/U made in 1945

I like the picture focused on the corral and grasses and sky Smile

Mike

That's is really cool. Any northerners showing up yet, Mike?

Guest

Mike, that's a sharp little Belgian 16; looks high quality. I find the way the bolsters are set just behind the standing breech interesting. Most bolsters are flush with the SB. I'm taking my soon to be 8 mo. old pup and '55 200E-16 out after grouse/woodcock as soon as the pea soup fog lifts around here.

Member Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 2170 Location: Florida

Very nice , Mike .

What Dave said and I really like the 3 piece forearm .

Thanks for sharing .

Mark

Joined: 09 Mar 2015 Posts: 4

Just got back from hunting doves for 25 days in Oklahoma. Rains and cold fronts played havoc with the local doves. Some days a limit, some days 2-4 birds. Did get to kill my first limit of Whitewings in southern Oklahoma. Had a 20-25 acre harvested cornfield that 4 to 5 big flocks of Whitewings working like ducks. Even had flocks come into the Mojo decoy. On one of the decoy passes killed 3 Whitewings with one shot (all fell straight down dead). All the rest was pass shooting. Used a Browning A5 Light 20 and Remington Shurshot 1 oz. loads of 7 1/2's. Not bad for an 68 year old dove hunter from Tennessee who hadn't seen a Whitewing until 6 years ago. A long way to drive to hunt doves (900 miles one way) but love it and have been dove hunting for 52 years. Will hunt with all 16 gauges (Sweet 16 and Citori 16) next year as soon as I get the stocks cut (shotguns don't fit after extreme shoulder surgery that shortened my length of pull).

Welcome on your first post. Sounds like some great shooting you had. Gil

BT16gauge
Really good to have you posting Smile

I will be 68 in December Shocked

Enjoy the site
Mike

Joined: 09 Mar 2015 Posts: 4

Thanks to both of you for the welcome. I hunted doves east of the Mississippi River until 2006. Then I decided I wanted to dove hunt more than opening day and/or weekend. Found a fellow in southern Oklahoma that works with 70+ farmers that he leases fields from for dove, duck, goose and sandhill crane hunting. I have been out there hunting doves for 9 of the last 10 years (one year off for shoulder surgery/rehab). Some years the hunting has been good and some not so good. We have had a drought year where the temperatures were over 100 degrees every day (hottest was 113 degrees) with little water in ponds, a year where the remnants of a hurricane that hit the Texas coast kept us out of the fields for three days and muddy for two weeks, etc. And hunting doves "out west" is always interesting (and different for a Tennessean). So far have have had a cougar in the field at daylight, elk, cows and horses in the road on the way to the hunt, wild hog sign (and sometimes hogs) in every field, a full blown dust storm and "the dust". This year three of us were hunting one morning and we heard the cattle in an adjacent field take off running and bellowing in the dark. In talking with the farmers wife later as she was saddling horses to get the cattle back in the pasture, she said that wild hogs apparently broke through the barbwire fence and spooked the cattle who went through the fence in another place followed by the hogs. It is always interesting. One year we had a dove hunt turn into a hog hunt.

Prefer to hunt with 16's (currently have 10). Hopefully next year.

Joined: 29 May 2016 Posts: 79 Location: Burke Co, GA

Susie turns 91 tomorrow. Susie is a Field grade 16 ga. L C Smith with 32" barrels, a Hunter One Trigger and ejectors. She is a very unique lady. Probably needless to say, but she has chokes that are tight enough to "reach out and touch". Susie and I share the same birthday, though 26 years apart. I will be 65 tomorrow and she will turn 91. She was completed on Oct. 13, 1925. I saw the light of day on Oct. 13. 1951.

Susie is death on doves with 1 oz. 7 1/2s.

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And sure worries the crows with 1 1/8 oz. 4s.

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