any classic double guns waterfowling?1

I've hunted my Winchester 400 a fair amount this fall and have a love/hate relationship. I love the nostalgia aspect of hunting with a double gun and I shoot it well, the first two shots out of it resulted in two Blue Wing Teal. I dislike that I jammed the barrel selector between barrels on an evening shoot and missed a chance at a double on drake Mallards and then later a Pintail. I've had it for sale for a while, but am thinking I'd regret selling a gun I shoot so well with...

It does the job with Federal Speed-Shok #4s @ 1375.



Cory
 
hoytcanon said:
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Great picture! Your dog looks like he loves posing for the camera. :)
 
If I had to go on but one brant hunt it's be good ole Mexico!! Something to be said for be able to hunt brant from shore. Something we can't really do here in BC.

Had a good Ten days last season. Unfortunately I'll be in a month of schooling next march so I'll only get out a couple days.



 
VictoryXC said:
Great picture! Your dog looks like he loves posing for the camera. :)
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That dog ain't posing... I kept calling her name to get her to look at the cell phone camera lens but she would not take her eyes off the sky for one second, looking for birds... she is absolutely bird crazy... I had to cut a whole in the front of the blind so she could poke her head through to watch, or she would have torn the blind down.
 
Crazy_Farmer said:
If I had to go on but one brant hunt it's be good ole Mexico!! Something to be said for be able to hunt brant from shore. Something we can't really do here in BC.

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That almost looks like a river... or is it an inlet or salt water estuary?

Any brant hunt would please me... but I once sat around a campfire with Worth Mathewson and his tales of layout and skiff hunting for brant on the west coast really captured my imagination.
 
That was an inlet where the airboats launched. You'd hunt out in the bays or inlets of the bays where the eelgrass grows best.

I know of Worth, we go down to the brant foundation event every year. I believe he was selling his place in sask? But it's true, a long standing tradition and most of the guys out now are over 50-60. Not the faint of heart. Big seas can kick up and everyone runs pretty small boats for the waters. But you can spend 8 hrs starring at the ocean and not see a goose and then 20 seconds of heart beating action watching a flock come in like a flock of 3lb teals into the decoys. Makes it all worth it.
 
hoytcanon said:
That dog ain't posing... I kept calling her name to get her to look at the cell phone camera lens but she would not take her eyes off the sky for one second, looking for birds... she is absolutely bird crazy... I had to cut a whole in the front of the blind so she could poke her head through to watch, or she would have torn the blind down.
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Good stuff!! That explains the intense stare.
 
Well I stood in the gun room staring at 14 different 12 ga guns and 1 10 ga trying to decide what to bring tomorrow morning for nearly 20 mins. Kinda hiding from my beautiful wife for dropping 100 lbs of venison in her kitchen and leaving a blood trail from the door to her kitchen. I was going to pack an Ithaca 37 but I reread this thread and put it back in the rack. I'm going to bring my hand engraved guisseppi sxs with a Remington 1100 for back up fire power. The lil blond I'm taking with me shoots it well should an issue arise with her gun. Hopefully it'll be a good day and I won't have to back her up much
 
hoytcanon said:
That dog ain't posing... I kept calling her name to get her to look at the cell phone camera lens but she would not take her eyes off the sky for one second, looking for birds... she is absolutely bird crazy... I had to cut a whole in the front of the blind so she could poke her head through to watch, or she would have torn the blind down.
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you cant stop a dog hunting. seems she s more than efficient at it.

great picture, i didnt see any life jacket on the picture lol ...
 
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