Upland scatter guns and other tools of the trade

[Naches Sportsman]

Nice pics Lee.  A dinged up chukar gun is what makes hunting fun.  I will admit I put a few dings on mine this year.  My beretta is not pretty but gets the job done. Also, the dog looks happy!!

[AWS]

There is something about the scent of birds to those bearded dogs that's like "SPEED" to them.  They can be dead tired or hurting at the end of the day and they hit bird scent on the way back to the truck and they are just as wound up as the first bird of the day.

My old Trooper has artheritic hips but can't be left home, you'd never know it to see him in the field, he is " balls to the wall" the whole time and in the evening I have to lift him on to the couch and he cries everything he tries to move but don't try and leave him home.  I'm doing more duck hunting this year and in the future as the impact isn't quite as bad.

[Bwana Bob]

Nice pictures guy and some real nice SXS. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that shoots them. I have only three of them but if I was younger, I'd have a bakers dozen of them. I wish I took some photo's of them with my dogs out in the field like the ones here.

[Bwana Bob]

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Shot these birds with a 1930's made guild gun in 16ga. The gun was made in Czech

[BLR 243]

The dogs are gone the truck is gone but the gun and memories remain.

[fethrduster]

Here are my two upland guns: a 1920's or 30's 6lb Masquelier (French) 16ga hammer gun and a 1902 Lefever G grade ejector 12ga two barrel set that I traded for last year and that I just had re-case colored.  I would love to add a matching 16 Lefever and a Husqvarna 16 hammer gun at some point. 

[boneaddict]

   That first pic is just that  Fethrduster   

Neat thread!

[netcoyote]

My Franchi Veloce 20 ga and my English Setter. Sadly my setter may have seen his last days hunting. He injured himself last year and then ended up lame after his recuperation. He still wants to get out, so maybe I'll put him on some short trips this year. We sure had some great days together in the field.
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[fethrduster]

My Franchi Veloce 20 ga and my English Setter. Sadly my setter may have seen his last days hunting. He injured himself last year and then ended up lame after his recuperation. He still wants to get out, so maybe I'll put him on some short trips this year. We sure had some great days together in the field.
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That sucks about your setter.  Nice looking dog.  Mine will be five this year, and I feel like I hit the doggy jackpot.  Just a wonderful dog in every way.  Hope you can get another one at some point.

[singleshot12]

All 3 are still alive and working well

[singleshot12]

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Neat thread!

Those are great pics. Is that bird in the 1st pic a scaled or mountain quail or something?

[netcoyote]

Here are my two upland guns: a 1920's or 30's 6lb Masquelier (French) 16ga hammer gun and a 1902 Lefever G grade ejector 12ga two barrel set that I traded for last year and that I just had re-case colored.  I would love to add a matching 16 Lefever and a Husqvarna 16 hammer gun at some point. 

Those are some beautiful guns there fethrduster. Glad to see them getting used and in the field where they should be instead of locked in a cabinet. If they could only talk....

[fethrduster]

  That first pic is just that  Fethrduster   

Neat thread!

Those are great pics. Is that bird in the 1st pic a scaled or mountain quail or something?

Nope, just a regular male valley quail.  I agree, they sure are beautiful little birds.

[fethrduster]

Here are my two upland guns: a 1920's or 30's 6lb Masquelier (French) 16ga hammer gun and a 1902 Lefever G grade ejector 12ga two barrel set that I traded for last year and that I just had re-case colored.  I would love to add a matching 16 Lefever and a Husqvarna 16 hammer gun at some point. 

Those are some beautiful guns there fethrduster. Glad to see them getting used and in the field where they should be instead of locked in a cabinet. If they could only talk....

Thanks!  I can't afford closet queens, and life is too short anyway, so I use them as much as I can.  They do talk.  They talk to me a lot.  They say, "Hey you!  Take me out, take me out!!"