Ok, at least the most successful, my best hunt ever would be limiting out with wing shots over the dog. We were simply driving some back roads looking for tree grouse as they are eating their buds for the evening.
We usually get one or two in the last 10 minutes of legal light.
Well this evening was great, I took my 13 y/o cousin out, I was using my single shot Stevens 410 (patented in 1912) and he was using my 20 G Browning Citori. As we were approaching legal time (5:00pm today) I spotted a bird on my side and bang, then a few hundred yds up the road, bang, and again a few hundred yds again and bang... I now had my limit (3) and was feeling a bit guilty not letting the young fella shoot but all of the birds were on my side of the road and those are the rules (plus I didn't feel any were "easy shots")
We still had 12 minutes left in legal light and I said to him "There is still plenty of time for you to get a limit" I didn't believe this but was pretty confident we would get one more.
Well, we turned onto another road and I knew of a tree that often had 2 or 3 birds in the evenings. Well, this tree a huge white birch, was only 20 yds from both roads we were on and I could see a bird before turning then another and another, I let him out and sneaked down the road a bit more (thinking I was distracting them) I saw 6 or 7 birds in the tree, he fires and nothing drops, the birds take off but one stays, he gets it and I notice another in the tree, he shoots and a bird drops (not the one I was looking at) then he fires again and another drops.... took me 25 years to get my first limit and he gets a limit 5 minutes after I do!!!
I love this little gun:
We usually get one or two in the last 10 minutes of legal light.
Well this evening was great, I took my 13 y/o cousin out, I was using my single shot Stevens 410 (patented in 1912) and he was using my 20 G Browning Citori. As we were approaching legal time (5:00pm today) I spotted a bird on my side and bang, then a few hundred yds up the road, bang, and again a few hundred yds again and bang... I now had my limit (3) and was feeling a bit guilty not letting the young fella shoot but all of the birds were on my side of the road and those are the rules (plus I didn't feel any were "easy shots")
We still had 12 minutes left in legal light and I said to him "There is still plenty of time for you to get a limit" I didn't believe this but was pretty confident we would get one more.
Well, we turned onto another road and I knew of a tree that often had 2 or 3 birds in the evenings. Well, this tree a huge white birch, was only 20 yds from both roads we were on and I could see a bird before turning then another and another, I let him out and sneaked down the road a bit more (thinking I was distracting them) I saw 6 or 7 birds in the tree, he fires and nothing drops, the birds take off but one stays, he gets it and I notice another in the tree, he shoots and a bird drops (not the one I was looking at) then he fires again and another drops.... took me 25 years to get my first limit and he gets a limit 5 minutes after I do!!!
I love this little gun:
