I got cheaper O/Us to drag through the woods/stream bottoms chasing grouse since they knock them down as well while the fancy ones are safe in the safe.I have several Savage and Stevens doubles and singles in 12 and 20. They always work great in spite of not being $1500 works of art that I'd be hesitant to drag through the fields.
Around here nobody plucks pheasants, just gut 'em and skin 'em!
The problem is, the skin is what makes the bird taste so good.
I just use the breast to make pheasant cordon bleu or pheasant and dumplings
"Red Label" 12ga and an earlier model 37 "Ithaca" Featherlight 12ga are the only pure shotguns I've ever owned. Bought the mod37 back in the early 80's and the Red Label somewhere about the late 80's iirc. Oh yeh, I've got an old 12ga side x side my dad left me when he passed a few years ago, and back in the 70's had a Savage 22lr over 410bore. Had to sell it to pay rent one month to keep a roof over my new bride's head, and buy another loaf of bread and a pack of balona for her and the dog to eat.
My daughter is 32. When she was in high school, not that long ago, it wasn’t uncommon to see deer rifles and shotguns in gun racks in the back windows of pickup trucks in the student parking lot. It all depends on where you are.
IIRC the reason I said I put it in my buddy's truck is because I wasn't old enough yet to have a driver's license. Probably had what was called a 'Restricted' license at the time, but couldn't drive by myself. Imagine that ... not old enough to drive by myself, but old enough to buy a 12ga shotgun ... and while on school grounds from a teacher no less, and with no background check. I could've even had it delivered to my front door back then by USPS.My daughter is 32. When she was in high school, not that long ago, it wasn’t uncommon to see deer rifles and shotguns in gun racks in the back windows of pickup trucks in the student parking lot. It all depends on where you are.
