Well I bought a 28 gauge earlier this summer and it drew it's first blood today!
I bought a Stevens 512 Goldwing with 26 inch barrels and intercahngeable choke tubes. We also raised a bunch of pheasants, and today we decided to try a little test hunt to see how it would go. A buddy released 4 birds where the other three of us did not see, so we actually had to hunt for them. Fortunately we had a good dog and we were able to find three of them, the fourth eluded our collective best efforts though. I shot a hen, we found it in a small strip of heavy weeds and burdocks in the middle of a clover field, man those little buggers really hold tight to the cover! When she flushed, she flew straight away from me and I was actually expecting one of the other hunters to shoot, when no one did I dropped her at about 30 to 35 yards with a single shot of number 6 through an improved cylinder choke. I was quite surprised she went down so well, I wanted to switch the barrel selector switch to go to the modified choke, but it is a new gun and everything is still quite stiff, so I left it on the bottom barrel expecting to have to fire both rounds.
This "little" 28 gauge is really impressing me, I also shot an informal round of skeet (you know, shotguns, beer, pretty young ladies, and loud country music) in a buddies back yard last week. Everyone there tried the new gun and everyone was very impressed how well it shot. I started getting a little cocky with it and let the birds get way out there before I would shoot, oddly enough it would bust them almost every time.
I would highly reccomend this gauge to anyone in the market for a new upland game gun, and this model is very impressive too. For $550 you get a lot of gun for the money.
I bought a Stevens 512 Goldwing with 26 inch barrels and intercahngeable choke tubes. We also raised a bunch of pheasants, and today we decided to try a little test hunt to see how it would go. A buddy released 4 birds where the other three of us did not see, so we actually had to hunt for them. Fortunately we had a good dog and we were able to find three of them, the fourth eluded our collective best efforts though. I shot a hen, we found it in a small strip of heavy weeds and burdocks in the middle of a clover field, man those little buggers really hold tight to the cover! When she flushed, she flew straight away from me and I was actually expecting one of the other hunters to shoot, when no one did I dropped her at about 30 to 35 yards with a single shot of number 6 through an improved cylinder choke. I was quite surprised she went down so well, I wanted to switch the barrel selector switch to go to the modified choke, but it is a new gun and everything is still quite stiff, so I left it on the bottom barrel expecting to have to fire both rounds. This "little" 28 gauge is really impressing me, I also shot an informal round of skeet (you know, shotguns, beer, pretty young ladies, and loud country music) in a buddies back yard last week. Everyone there tried the new gun and everyone was very impressed how well it shot. I started getting a little cocky with it and let the birds get way out there before I would shoot, oddly enough it would bust them almost every time.
I would highly reccomend this gauge to anyone in the market for a new upland game gun, and this model is very impressive too. For $550 you get a lot of gun for the money.
