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David Martin

David Martin

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Anybody else take their Buck's out for some Bird watching this holiday weekend? My daughter and I did. DM
 
Dave, I took my Blaze Orange Bucklite 112 and my old Belgian 16 gauge Browning Auto 5 for the dove opener. Looks like you two were well gunned! OH

Ps Finally uploaded my camera/phone to the computer - my favorite spot is down in a ditch in a funnel point around some giant oaks, I use the vines and briers in the ditch as cover (thus the Muck's). Shelly the lab has a great nose for finding birds - the main field is corn and sunflowers but all around is a stand of pines on one side and beans on two sides that are still thick and green, plus the ditch is impossible to see in (no clear cutting here!) - she found two birds that I would have lost without her.

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Hunter, Thanks. I carried my Rem. 1100 and a Buck lite 426. She took her Browning A500 and a Buck 495. They all worked well in their departments. DM
 
David, It took a strong woman to lasso you, but I think it is going to take one heck of a fella to corral a Martin daughter and impress her father......No doubt all were 60 yard high flyers......I think the new Buck scissor/pliers would be good at bird cleaning but because of cost I will get by with my garden shears. 300/ch
 
Haa. Guys here have good humor which helps the world go round. While I was cleaning these my wife was holding the flash light and I brought up the Buck scissors in our discussion. So, we are thinking about it. I use my Buck-lite to clip the wings and the rest is pulled apart. I have a pair of pruning shears that would work. Her R.O.T.C. buddies don't hunt much and none of them own a shotgun. So, they're kept at arms length for not knowing what a Browning A5 is. Haa. Three weeks ago I ask one of those guys to tag along with us on a trip to Sarah's Trap Club. It was a windy day, she and I tied at 20. I had brought him a spare 12ga. so he could shoot with us.---- He broke 2! The first time he'd shot Traps. He's a senior about to graduate with a Criminal Justice degree. The college guys today are very different than when I was in university. We tried to be at the Trap or Skeet range every other weekend. DM
 
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Here it is turning Fall. Still, when out at this time be on the look-out as danger could be nearby. Such was the case with me and my dog. Had she not given me the warning, our hunt would have turned out bad. A very close call, which I lost some sleep over. DM
 
Hunter, you'd better have a good dog when looking for downed birds in that thicket. How old is your dog? Aren't they just amazing to watch them work? DM
 
Davis…thanks for the photos!

I like seeing NM.
I have enjoyed that state more than most others I've been in for backpacking.
 
Great photos. Haven't been hunting in decades but spent a lot of my younger years in the field for pheasant and quail behind German Shorthairs and Brittanys.
 
TAH, Thanks. Yes, she has taught me many items. Some reminds me of my lower level of intelligence. In the photo she's certainly telling you, 'I found all these birds by myself and he mostly got in the way." DM
 
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Hammer, thanks. Do you have any photos of your bird dogs working? DM
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Sorry, no. They were my fathers dogs and the last one died when I was 15. I've hunted some after that but never with another dog. As an adult serving in the Navy never really afforded me the opportunity to bird hunt and here in VA we have no pheasant or quail to speak of so I still haven't gotten afield. Once I retire and if/when I get my knees replaced I might try and get back into dove hunting or perhaps visit my old hometown back in Nebraska during pheasant season. It would feel kind of strange going back there and having to get an out of state license.
 
I hope you do it someday and enjoy a good pheasant hunt. My Father in Law was from Seward. Best wishes, DM
 
David, I'm back, been gone a couple of days; to answer your questions. The dog, a chocolate lab, is Shelly and she belongs to my long time (and best) hunting buddy. She is 8 years old - she is quite a duck dog, but will work birds for you too. I looked through those photo's you linked on Google, but none are mine. The gun I'm holding is my Browning Auto-5 - it's a 16 gauge made in Belgium in 1951, one of the first with the safety in the rear of the trigger guard (I like that much better than the early ones that are mounted in the front of the trigger guard). I always liked a 16, "carries like a 20, hits like a 12!" as the old advertisements used to claim. OH

Ps Nice rattler - I see you made a good one out of it!
 
David, Yes that is me, "Old Guardsman" in the Duck Hunting Chat picture - but the first link I looked at (Google) just had lots and lots of photo's of Auto-5 shotguns. OH
 
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