I currently own two shotguns – a 20-gauge that I bought last year and a 12-gauge that I bought this year. Both are Benellis. The 20 a Montefeltro and the 12 an Ethos. I’d been alternating guns a bit this season but recently noticed a trend. When I carry the 12 gauge I don’t see any birds. I mean none. I haven’t even fired a shot out of that thing in the field. When I carry the 20-gauge I see birds and have shot all my birds this year with it. Now I’m superstitious and am sticking to the 20 the rest of the season.
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Lots of bird hunting this past month
In the last month since I got home from my Idaho deer hunt I’ve been spending a lot of time out bird hunting with Lira. So much time, in fact, that I haven’t been fishing for a month now. We’ve been spending time at Cooke Canyon in Ellensburg and several of the Snoqualmie Wildlife Areas on the west side. Lira has gotten better and better at finding birds, holding point and retrieving over this month, it has been really fun just watching her progress. She’s also graduated from needing to be leashed up to being able to be free and, for the most part she listens. She definitely would just as soon go out and play with other dogs as hunt though, it takes some prodding and a few zaps to get her out of play mode into hunt mode first thing in the morning.