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I want something that I can use for pheasant, duck, quail, and dove during the season, as well as 1 or 2 rounds of sporting clays a month. If firing pins are the only concern, my gunsmith makes them for pretty cheap.

Your choice is just that, but breaking O/Us for loading can be a nuisance in some blind situations, and a blued O/U has over twice the reflective surface of a single barrel to think about in others.

(That, and the dang things won't shoot three times.)

The blinds I've hunted out of have been no prob with my o/u, a smaller blind, maybe. Solved the glare problem, has not affected the numbers of birds I kill. The 2 shots seem to have slowed me down and make them count. Throwing in another for cripples has not been a problem.

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jarbo03 wrote:The blinds I've hunted out of have been no prob with my o/u...

That's what they all say...except the guys rebrushing the blind or looking down the barrel of one brought into the blind for loading. They're a genuine PIA in the pits we hunt. Always wanted a O/U 28 for upland, though. Just need a lot of other things worse.

(Not near as much fun to pick on them w/o HNTFSH and Swampbilly in the mix.)

My gun is out of the blind when I shoot, it stays there to reload, very easy. Unless you are shooting out of a foxhole.

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You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

The only time I use mine for ducks is standing next to tree in wood duck hole. And that's just sometimes. I like an auto far better for all situations. If a blued barrel is spooking your birds, hide better or go home.

rebelp74 wrote:If a blued barrel is spooking your birds, hide better or go home.

Once saw a deer poacher's rifle barrel flash on the far side of our hollow before I realized he was dressed like a giant pumpkin.

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

I am going to have to ask you to leave if you continue to use that language.

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

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jarbo03 wrote:

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

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I think Rick is cool, he just forgot where he was at for a minute

jarbo03 wrote:

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

"Common sense," like "common knowledge," is too often just common. My observations came from long experience. If they've not been an issue in your situation, that's great. But they have been in mine and could well be in the OPs.

Past clients I've not seen in years sometimes greet me with the axiom, "Grass is gold." because I'm such a stickler about maintain cover. And for one of that bent, one of the few things more irritating than a thoughtless soul breaking grass laying his gun across the top of a pit is one breaking it even lower loading a break action gun over the front of the pit. Ironically, this was the first photo I found showing my setup:


Being a side-by that doesn't break as deeply as an O/U was a plus, but any points he got for that were lost in the blast of the coach-barreled 10ga.

Here's a front view of what we're trying to preserve:


But I do apologize for the HNTFSH thing. Know that's a sore point with some of you.

Rick wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

"Common sense," like "common knowledge," is too often just common. My observations came from long experience. If they've not been an issue in your situation, that's great. But they have been in mine and could well be in the OPs.

Past clients I've not seen in years sometimes greet me with the axiom, "Grass is gold." because I'm such a stickler about maintain cover. And for one of that bent, one of the few things more irritating than a thoughtless soul breaking grass laying his gun across the top of a pit is one breaking it even lower loading a break action gun over the front of the pit. Ironically, this was the first photo I found showing my setup:

Here's a front view of what we're trying to preserve:


.

Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

RonE wrote:Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

DSCN1082.JPG

DSCN1079.JPG

Not hard to imagine those divers lining up like little kids at Macy's to see Santa.

Rick wrote:

RonE wrote:Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

DSCN1082.JPG

DSCN1079.JPG

Not hard to imagine those divers lining up like little kids at Macy's to see Santa.

Ha ha

RonE wrote:

Rick wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

"Common sense," like "common knowledge," is too often just common. My observations came from long experience. If they've not been an issue in your situation, that's great. But they have been in mine and could well be in the OPs.

Past clients I've not seen in years sometimes greet me with the axiom, "Grass is gold." because I'm such a stickler about maintain cover. And for one of that bent, one of the few things more irritating than a thoughtless soul breaking grass laying his gun across the top of a pit is one breaking it even lower loading a break action gun over the front of the pit. Ironically, this was the first photo I found showing my setup:

Here's a front view of what we're trying to preserve:


.

Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

DSCN1082.JPG

DSCN1079.JPG

whats in that can that says "lone star" never heard of it, some kind of pop?

jehler wrote:

RonE wrote:

Rick wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:

Rick wrote:You might be as much fun as HNTFSH after all.

Don't be scared of my common sense.

I take that as an insult.

"Common sense," like "common knowledge," is too often just common. My observations came from long experience. If they've not been an issue in your situation, that's great. But they have been in mine and could well be in the OPs.

Past clients I've not seen in years sometimes greet me with the axiom, "Grass is gold." because I'm such a stickler about maintain cover. And for one of that bent, one of the few things more irritating than a thoughtless soul breaking grass laying his gun across the top of a pit is one breaking it even lower loading a break action gun over the front of the pit. Ironically, this was the first photo I found showing my setup:

Here's a front view of what we're trying to preserve:


.

Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

DSCN1082.JPG

DSCN1079.JPG

whats in that can that says "lone star" never heard of it, some kind of pop?

Lone Star brewing company.


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Hey DH, if you look up you might still catch a glimpse of that one.... going over your head.

3legged_lab wrote:Hey DH, if you look up you might still catch a glimpse of that one.... going over your head.

he looked up, then back down, he still doesn't know my sincerity...
I like it that way

jehler wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:Hey DH, if you look up you might still catch a glimpse of that one.... going over your head.

he looked up, then back down, he still doesn't know my sincerity...
I like it that way

Give him a broomstick and an instructional video

3legged_lab wrote:Hey DH, if you look up you might still catch a glimpse of that one.... going over your head.

I missed it.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:

Rick wrote:

RonE wrote:Breaking the grass down is a very bad thing, we believe in concealment too. On Christmas you must wear a "santa" hat and you are not allowed to sit down and hide from the ducks.

DSCN1082.JPG

DSCN1079.JPG

Not hard to imagine those divers lining up like little kids at Macy's to see Santa.

Ha ha

Christmas Day 2012