Last edited by Ranger95; 10-26-2014 at 09:09 AM.
I have a Browning Gold 10, it's sole purpose in life is late season honkers when the 'kevlar' builds up. Still shoot it like my 12 but for late season birds it works better. However if you think it will hit harder at long range than a 20 using the same shell you are very wrong. If you don't have the patience or skill to get birds into the 30 yd mark then perhaps long range gong banging with a 280AI or some other such rifle is more in your wheel house.
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I personally agree with "Foxton Gundogs". I have little patience for the intentional 'sky busters', especially
those that sit just beyond more ethical hunters and try to get birds before others. When I used to hunt
areas where 'sky busters' were common such as around Pitt Lake and the Harrison I would take my dog
along the shoreline and often he would track down wounded birds far from the shooting action. I've also
picked up birds from the middle of the Fraser that had glided hundreds of yards from inland shooting areas.
My Da was a Game Keeper and Kennel Master for a number of estates in GB. Over there they do driven duck shoots much the same as they do the driven upland shoots with the birds being driven down the slough and the shooters standing on a bridge pass shooting. They believe it unsportsman like to shoot low flying birds and most of the shots are what we would consider sky busting. It was my job as a youth to take our Spaniels and clean up down stream after the shoot. The number of wounded birds the dead and dying would sicken any true sportsman. The entire staff of the estate would eat like kings after the clean up. Learn your distance learn to decoy, Hail Marys are for pentance not waterfowl shooting. And no, a bigger bore will not give you greater distance.
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