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What Gauge
#7319885
10/19/18 06:07 PM
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RayB
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red bone Bob
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red bone Bob
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I know Bill O hunts with a 20, until this year I bounced between 16 and 20, this year I'm taking a 28. What sez the crowd?
There is time, and you must take it, to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone" GBE
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Re: What Gauge
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#7319976
10/19/18 07:33 PM
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Dogmountin
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I go 20 for all my covey birds and use a 12 on Pheasants. I use 1 oz. #7 1/2 in the 20 and a 1 1/8 oz. #s 6-7/1/2 in the 12.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320032
10/19/18 08:18 PM
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Chet
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28gage cause I'm old and it's light.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320046
10/19/18 08:33 PM
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Mundo
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Tracker
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Again .28 less weight to haul around. I am probably older than chet and can hunt longer if i carry less.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320050
10/19/18 08:37 PM
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Texan Til I Die
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I use a 20 on quail and pheasant. High brass #6 for the ditch chickens.
Silver spurs and gold tequila keep me hanging on. Pretty girls and old cantinas give me shelter from the storm.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320078
10/19/18 09:03 PM
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texasdude28
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20 or 28 on quail, 20 on doves, 16 for pheasant, and 12 for waterfowl.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320357
10/20/18 01:42 AM
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68rustbucket
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20 or 28. Depends on how wild the birds are.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320428
10/20/18 02:58 AM
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scalebuster
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320526
10/20/18 09:07 AM
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blanked
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My 20 gage is as light as a 28. Comes in at 5.5 pounds
Last edited by blanked; 10/20/18 09:08 AM.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320561
10/20/18 12:17 PM
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reeltexan
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![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/KjZZqFj8/point-with-bird.jpg) "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320652
10/20/18 02:07 PM
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Smokey Bear
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Mostly a 20 for upland birds. Sometimes a 410 in early season.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7320935
10/20/18 08:47 PM
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TruckMan66
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Woodsman
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Re: What Gauge
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#7321104
10/21/18 12:03 AM
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Drahthaar
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Re: What Gauge
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#7321117
10/21/18 12:11 AM
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Old_School
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I have always used a 12, but time is a villain and a thief... and I'm really on the fence about picking up a 20 gauge in the near future
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Re: What Gauge
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#7321125
10/21/18 12:18 AM
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colt45-90
Texas colt45
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Texas colt45
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its not the gauge, the shooter
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: What Gauge
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#7321179
10/21/18 01:20 AM
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Timn
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Woodsman
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Starting out in Nebraska with my 16. Down the next weekend in Kansas I might start with the 28 or 20 who knows.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7322573
10/22/18 11:47 AM
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stinkbelly
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I use 20 for everything except ducks. I don't want to take my nice SxS into the duck swamp.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7328038
10/26/18 06:27 PM
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Dave Scott
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Re: What Gauge
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#7328127
10/26/18 08:17 PM
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Posts: 389
3 alarm bbq
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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20 for quail and dove, 16 for pheasant, 12 for turkey.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7328131
10/26/18 08:22 PM
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Posts: 33,150
kmon11
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junior
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For quail I like the 28 but also use 20 and 16 at times. The 16 is an old Browning A5 that was my uncles quail gun, bring it out in memory of him on some hunts
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: What Gauge
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11/15/18 11:37 PM
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P_102
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28 on Dove and Quail, 20 on pheasant usually but do break out the 16 ga.Model 12 for old times sake....it “shoots where I look” a bit better than the others.
P_102
Do not trifle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7349720
11/15/18 11:38 PM
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bill oxner
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: What Gauge
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#7349808
11/16/18 01:09 AM
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tigger
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Tigger If it isn't white it is not a birddog.
KC Lying is lying. Don't bitch about one doing it and condone another. That's called hypocrisy. _________________
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Re: What Gauge
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#7350003
11/16/18 05:36 AM
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NorthTXbirdhunter
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I have them all and shoot my 20 the most of the time. Quail have been so wild and skittish and getting up so far away, that I admit that I pulled my 12 out a couple of times last year. I have decided to just shoot a camera this year with the number of birds down so low. I am going to try to take a bird only if one of my young dogs does it all right i.e. point and hold and lets me flush.
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Re: What Gauge
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#7350056
11/16/18 12:12 PM
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redhaze
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Looks like a 12 gauge Nikon this year......
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