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Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7249154 08/08/18 02:45 PM
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When I grab my gun from the Mule, it gets loaded. I reload after a shot and before taking another step. If it flies, it dies.


Originally Posted by bill oxner
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out.


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Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7249331 08/08/18 05:32 PM
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This is the way most quail hunters hold their guns. I've seen a few clay target shooters hold them against their shoulder.






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Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7249383 08/08/18 06:17 PM
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Bill I hate to argue with you but.....most people shoot from the right side, not the left. roflmao

but your point is well taken! Pun intended

Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7249870 08/09/18 02:55 AM
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I load up when I leave the truck. Don't shoot many but try to kill one for a young dog that did it right.

Re: When do you load [Re: 68rustbucket] #7251324 08/10/18 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted By: 68rustbucket
It’s not like quail hunting is preparing for self defense. The bird isn’t armed, and only weighs about 4 oz.


Never said it was. My point was more to the fact that "when" to load isn't about sportsmanship/gamesmanship (my opinion). On shooting, then, yes, the "when" applies to both.

Loading in my opinion is about safety, and the parallel about regularly carrying applies to that topic.

Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7251331 08/10/18 03:20 PM
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When the walking begins, safety on of course.

Only pointed birds.

...and I don't unload until I get back to the truck. I've had dogs lock up within feet of where we park.


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Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7251343 08/10/18 03:26 PM
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Most challenging is to catch them on the run across roads

Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7253358 08/12/18 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted By: bill oxner
I'm not even going to ask when you take the safety off. I don't ever remember doing it myself.


Too often it is after I pull the trigger real hard and nothing happens. bang

Re: When do you load [Re: Sniper John] #7253473 08/13/18 12:13 AM
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Gave my O/U to Virgil Moore to shoot a bird for my pup. He yells it wont fire, is it off safety I yell back, he says yep. Safety first, still had snap caps in it.

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Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7276770 09/04/18 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted By: bill oxner
How many of you pick up your hulls? How many are required to pick them up?
all that I shoot plus a few more that I see. So does my son.


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Been years since we had quail to hunt. Always pick up my hulls.


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Originally Posted By: Chet
Gave my O/U to Virgil Moore to shoot a bird for my pup. He yells it wont fire, is it off safety I yell back, he says yep. Safety first, still had snap caps in it.


I use a O/U in the field, and a auto for ducks. I can't tell you how many times I've missed a shot. As the safteys are in different locations. I shoulder the gun, and slide my thumb up to release the saftey. Just feel smooth metal, because its my auto.
I need to start using just one gun for all hunting, but I like both of them for different reasons.



Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.
Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.


Re: When do you load [Re: bill oxner] #7306220 10/05/18 11:56 PM
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Depends on who I am hunting with...I try to follow the decorum of the group, and the type of hunt.

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When we stop to open the front gate roflmao


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