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< 16ga. General Discussion ~ 2018 Hunting Season Photos - Let's See Them |
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Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:52 am
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Joined: 30 Nov 2011
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Location: Minnesota
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Great video. Thanks for sharing |
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Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:23 am
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Joined: 19 Nov 2013
Posts: 381
Location: NW Arkansas
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Last hunt of the Arkansas quail season yesterday. Found three coveys, had good dog work, wonderful day. Any day where I can go bird hunting is a good day, even if the kill isn't a limit! Two woodcock points also, but the season here is long gone. Probably bird going back north.
An Ithaca day. I used Classic Doubles on Federal Land and paper hull lead on private land in my NID. I came to the conclusion that I need to use this gun a lot more from here on, if the Good Lord lets me live to see another bird season. And, yes, I did smell the paper hull after I killed a bird with it! The other gun is a 1949 M37 that my late father used, and that my older brother has used for bird hunting all his life.
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Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:27 am
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Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Location: Kelso, Tennessee
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Great stuff Micheal. Warms my heart.I’m sure smelling that burnt powder always triggers a rush of wonderful memories. How we all wish for one more point over old “Don”, watching dad swing on one more covey rise, or swap one more yarn after a hunt with an old friend over a piece of homemade coconut pie and coffee at Hilltop Cafe. Thanks for sharing. |
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Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:30 am
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Joined: 30 Nov 2011
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Location: Minnesota
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4setters That's a great pair of Ithacas. I have a 37 and would love to try out a NID someday. Good for you |
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Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:12 am
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Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1943
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
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Gotta love those M37 and NID's. I hunted Wednesday with a man who had with him a 1935 NID 20 ga. Sweet looking and handling gun. No birds shot that day. Gil |
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:08 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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Here's a little bit of photo work from the end of chukar/ hun season. I pretty much have been living in my camper out on a frozen lake (over two feet of ice now) and ice fishing between bird hunts. Home sick today, so I'm finally catching up a bit. Warning! 12 ga. content in one photo. Oh, found a sink hole on an old haul road too.
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_________________ Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter... |
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:40 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9469
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Great pictures
Did you have to use a HandyMan Jack?
Mike |
Last edited by skeettx on Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:47 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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It was at home! Three trucks, one jack. I use my ice chopping bar, intended for cutting holes in the ice for fishing and setting minnow traps. Two hours of HARD work resulted in an even larger hole that was tapered. I set the tires at single digit air pressure and drove through it then reinflated the tires with a real air compressor (no cig lighter unit for me). Cutting frozen mud is so much tougher than ice, I assure you. This after hiking 7 hours and jumping two mountain lions at 20 yards. Some days are meant to be adventures. Three hun coveys, five chukar coveys, none of them very cooperative. I was completely exhausted, but happy. |
_________________ Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter... |
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:49 pm
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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WONDERFUL
Those were the days, now at 70 I do not put out that much effort
Mike
p.s. I, also am puny, at home with bronchitis, YUK |
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:50 pm
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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Skeettx,
Roger that buddy, too old for those kind of efforts now!
WyoChukar,
Take care of that good LeFever double gun will ya! No fence post pounding now!
Great pictures.
Pine Creek/Dave
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:47 pm
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Joined: 18 Aug 2010
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Location: Ballymoney Northern Ireland
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Seriously nice gun there WYO , great photos of Rusty in action ,good job Ford made them old trucks tough. All the best WJ |
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Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:20 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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"No fence post pounding". I hear that. No padding either. There was a casualty the previous week involving my Lefever 16 and it's previously cracked stock. It involved drifted snow up to my nipples, a runaway chukar, and well part of the crack let go because I let it get torqued sideways when I sank into the snow drift. Completely my fault. No biggie though, I bought the gun intending to restock it and have wood. I hiked back to the truck and grabbed the Ithaca N.I.D. and kept hunting (always have extra 16's). There will be an update on all of that later, with photos. |
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Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:00 am
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Joined: 27 Jun 2012
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I just returned from my last trip of the season down to hunt with friends at Alger Flats in Alabama. A bunch of quail and not a few pine trees were shot over a three day weekend. One of my buddies, Dan King, got a great picture of my two dogs locked up on a bobwhite in one of their fields named "Pointer". It is the 4 year old Rebel pointing on the right and the 9 year old Bode backing on the left. Yes, we got that quail.
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Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:27 am
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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WyoChukar,
Only kidding about the fence post pounding, hope you can get the new stock made and installed before next season rolls around.
I have on old L.C. Smith 20 gauge gun stock that a buddy of mine fell down a mountain side with, and seriously damaged the stock, Freddie Brunner repaired it for me, and advised me that some day I would need to replace the entire stock. If his repair was damaged again. Looks like I am headed that way, because I fell on some rocks this last season and damaged the gun once again. Completely my fault, twisted my ankle and went down hard on the edge of a stream bead, cracking the repaired section of the stock.
Looks line a money fix, and now that Freddie Brunner and Rich Painter are completely retired, I will need to send the gun to New England or North Carolina to have it restocked correctly, unless I can get our master stock maker to due it here in the Pa mountains. He is really backed up with work however, probably be a year to get the gun back from him, if I have him do it.
Good luck with your LeFever stock repair or replacement!
Pine Creek/Dave
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Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:31 am
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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Riflemeister,
Looks like a great place to Quail hunt, seriously nice work by your dogs, and I love the picture.
Pine Creek/Dave
L.C. Smith Man
Pine Creek Ryman Daisy on Grouse point, Pine Creek Heston running to back her, on the logging road in the big Pa woods.
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