Loyalist Dave
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I wonder should I teach a lesson by example or not?
My “foster” nephew refers to traditional muzzleloaders as Elmer Fudd guns. I hunt upland birds with a Pedersoli 20 gauge caplock SxS with upland choked barrels.
Background info: The Pedersoli is the only shotgun that I’ve ever shot my limit on pheasants or chukkar, and I’ve done it more than once. NOT that I’m a super bird-shooter…, I just got lucky that this particular gun fits me great, and the barrels are very well regulated. None of my other 20 gauges work so well for me.
He’s my “foster” nephew as he really isn’t related to me, but his family calls me Uncle Dave, or Crazy Uncle Dave. He wants to go upland bird hunting, and there is a rather inexpensive upland bird game preserve near to me. His dad wants to split the cost of a day’s hunting with me, so that his son the foster nephew can get some birds along with his dad and me.
Now my foster-nephew-teenager is all of 15 years old and will likely use his over/under 20 gauge, breech loader. He thinks he’s pretty good with that thing, and he is SURE he’s better with his shotgun than I am with my caplock.
So I’m thinkin’ that I need to go with him and his father to this game preserve and knock a whole bunch of birds down with him, and every time I knock one down, say something like, “Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting burds, hahahahahahaha” doing my best Elmer Fudd impression. ESPECIALLY if he misses a bird and I make the follow-up shot.
So they will likely end up with 2x the birds that I end up with, our party having three guns and the “mix” of game birds that will be part of the "package" likely go evenly three ways…,(God willing and the birds cooperate and give us good shots...which we hopefully make) ... which is part of the plan, as foster-nephew’s dad is a professional chef, so the more birds they get, the more he will prepare and invite me and my wife over to eat! The dad is a much better wild game cook than I, so suffice it to say that while I’m Crazy Uncle Dave …..I’m not Stupid Uncle Dave….
LD
My “foster” nephew refers to traditional muzzleloaders as Elmer Fudd guns. I hunt upland birds with a Pedersoli 20 gauge caplock SxS with upland choked barrels.
Background info: The Pedersoli is the only shotgun that I’ve ever shot my limit on pheasants or chukkar, and I’ve done it more than once. NOT that I’m a super bird-shooter…, I just got lucky that this particular gun fits me great, and the barrels are very well regulated. None of my other 20 gauges work so well for me.
He’s my “foster” nephew as he really isn’t related to me, but his family calls me Uncle Dave, or Crazy Uncle Dave. He wants to go upland bird hunting, and there is a rather inexpensive upland bird game preserve near to me. His dad wants to split the cost of a day’s hunting with me, so that his son the foster nephew can get some birds along with his dad and me.
Now my foster-nephew-teenager is all of 15 years old and will likely use his over/under 20 gauge, breech loader. He thinks he’s pretty good with that thing, and he is SURE he’s better with his shotgun than I am with my caplock.
So I’m thinkin’ that I need to go with him and his father to this game preserve and knock a whole bunch of birds down with him, and every time I knock one down, say something like, “Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting burds, hahahahahahaha” doing my best Elmer Fudd impression. ESPECIALLY if he misses a bird and I make the follow-up shot.
So they will likely end up with 2x the birds that I end up with, our party having three guns and the “mix” of game birds that will be part of the "package" likely go evenly three ways…,(God willing and the birds cooperate and give us good shots...which we hopefully make) ... which is part of the plan, as foster-nephew’s dad is a professional chef, so the more birds they get, the more he will prepare and invite me and my wife over to eat! The dad is a much better wild game cook than I, so suffice it to say that while I’m Crazy Uncle Dave …..I’m not Stupid Uncle Dave….
LD