What would you like to do?

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What is something shotgun-related you would like to do, but haven't?

Personally, I would love to experience one of the Southern dove shoots I've read about. I'm not talking about going down to Argentina and shooting a few hundred a day -- I'm talking about a nice, warm opening day with lots of birds, families, kids and a big ol' barbeque picnic.

Yup. Shooting doves with my Model 42... spending time with my family... visiting with folks... and eating good food fresh off the grill. Sounds like heaven to me.

How about you?
 
A couple things come to mind.

Argentina, though I'd want to get in some fly fishing in between burning off flats and flats of shells.

An old time plantation quail hunt with mules, dozens of wild coveys and great dogs.

A SoDak ringneck safari, with a long barreled pumpgun as in days of yore.
 
I've been trying to get set up for a Louis Awerbuck shotgun class for years now. Every time he's been anywhere close, something or other has always gotten in the way. But, it gives me something else to work toward and look forward to.

I really want to manage a Shotgun Safari road trip up to visit with friend Dave and and the 'usual suspects' around PGC. It'd be nice to get Clays 101 taken care of. Never did get to play clay games before, I reckon I'm maybe old enough now to learn.

Wish I could set the Wayback Machine to home and the way things were in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the place was still a working farm. I had a half dozen wild coveys of quail I could get to most any time, and I'd love to be able to take the current Brittany back there and see her work. Used to be I could get out almost every afternoon and roust up birds, and she needs that now. It's not possible to do that here in NC and home is 600 miles and 30 years away, quail don't do well with uncontrolled feral cats, coyotes and unbroken acres of pine timber with no cropland. It's sad to see things the way they are, and it's really tough on Gentleman Bob. That's the worst thing.

TR, I wish I could take you along on a Wayback Machine trip to a football Saturday dove hunt at home they way they used to be done. Shooting started after noon, that gave time for a nice lunch and made sure everyone would be drowsy in the afternoon sun. Best of all possible coincidences was the Saturday that arch rivals Auburn and Alabama played at Legion Field in Birmingham. Everybody in the field would have a transistor radio or their truck radio tuned to the game and whoops and catcalls would be doubled. Not only would the warnings of approaching birds or the goodnatured jibes over missed shots get yelled back and forth but cheers and catcalls over gridiron activities would too. As they say, those were the days.

Lastly I'd like to go back for one of those Thanksgiving afternoon squirrel hunts, when three generations of the menfolk in my family would set out in the woods to walk off Thanksgiving dinner. My grandfather loved to do that, and the old Remington double barrel hammer gun he carried accounted for many a squirrel over whichever squirrel dog we had along at the time.

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Like Dave, an Argentina or S. America bird hunt, mixed bag.

I would like to shoot birds in Africa, when I was there for my safari hunt years ago I didn't have the opportunity to hunt the doves, guineas, and other flying game that was so abundant.

The old fashioned quail hunt is something I would also like to experiennce, but I would be spoiled then.
 
Lee - If I could get my hands on a "way back" machine, I'd love to spend one more afternoon fly-fishing with my dad. Even better would be to let him see the grandkids he never had a chance to meet.

*sigh*
 
Ducks and geese in South America would be my number one 'wanna' with a shotgun. Argentina probably, a good single malt and lots of rare beef off the fire in the evenings shared with a couple friends.
 
:)

-Another day with Mentors & Elders now passed and doing the various things we did with shotguns.

-Another day with some shooting pards now passed.

-To see some folks I shared and passed forward to again, and to do some of the stuff we did with a shotgun , dreamt of doing.

-Quail, yeah I gotta do another Southern Quail hunt with wagons, dogs, and coveys and good folks

-Never hunted Pheasant, Chukar, Grouse, Woodcock..

-Doves. Argentina or wherever. I want to shoot till the barrel turns red and starts to melt, then grab another gun and do it again...then again..then...

-Awerbuck

-Always wanted to shoot clays off a BIG boat.

-Then again I may not fire a shot, instead watch a kid, a lady shooter fell their first targets. Dove, or clay. I'll just be there to assist and take it all in.

-Right now though, I am doing one of the things I like, passing forward to another this Shotgunning Art and Science.

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Hmmm... sounds like we could take care of a lot of stuff with a THR trip to Argentina. :uhoh: :D
 
I'd like to get a shotgun fit in the olde English way. I don't know what that really entails, but it sounds expensive and fun. :D

South America sounds like a hell of an adventure also.

Ed
 
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I'd like another day like one I had once

I left the house around three, if I remember right. My old Springer (dead as Marley for a long time now) was with me. I drove about four miles and parked the old truck next to a bush road I'd been hunting for years. (It's closed off and posted now, of course.)

The dog and I walked downhill for about an hour, then fooled around by a creek and an abandoned farm for another hour or so. The big, old apple tree hadn't been blown down yet and was bearing. I ate a couple of the apples and put a few more in my orange bird hunter vest.

Then the dog and I walked uphill for about an hour and a quarter. (It always took longer to walk out due to the uphill thing, and the fact that just after the dead crow the dog always wandered off for a while.)

Back at the truck just as dusk was starting to arrive.
I saw 25 grouse that afternoon. I shot at four or five, and missed every one.
I'd even take the awful shooting again, for another day like that.

(The grouse cycle has been down so long up here that someone ought to write a blues song about it.)
 
Other than the outstanding hunting trips just mentioned, I wish I was independently weathly and could purchase and bring back the Ithaca Gun Company to it's glory years of affordable side by sides and pump action shotguns.
 
"...a THR trip to Argentina." woohoo.gif


High on my list is to retire and move somewhere I can bird hunt in my backyard. I've had a good taste of it this year duck hunting at a friend's farm...just walk down the steps to the dock, climb into the floating blind and motor off into her 1600 acre tidal marsh.

John
 
I'd like to get my wife to try shotgunnin'. she enjoys handguns and rifles but has no interest in SG's.

I'd like to own a piece of property I can set up my own psature clays range on.

See the Grand American and peruse the for-sale tables of Ljutics, perazzi's, parkers, Krieghoff's, etc.

I'd like to see Savage bring back the Stevens 311 and offer it with an english/straight stock for under $500.
 
Larry Ashcraft said:
Rupestris, you obviously haven't been following the saga of Sandy Ashcraft and the 28 ga. :)
Click to expand...

Yeah that saga has definately added to my desire to have the Mrs. shoot with me.
Right now I can't afford to lose another firearm to her. She's already laid claim to the 1911 and a Lever gun. I gotta let the shotguns multiply before pushing the issue.:D
Part of her hesitating is my fault. She's never fired a SG and the first time she watched me dial in slugs for deer season she got the impression that the kick would be a bit much for her, being 5' 4".

I haven't given up tho. ;)
 
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