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 Firecracker Dog Lover
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| TXBO - 2013-12-06 11:03 AM
brlraceaddict - 2013-12-06 12:59 PM TXBO - 2013-12-06 10:38 AM You got your freezer full of birds, addict?
TXBO - not really. We've been eating them like crazy. Pheasant strips, Melt in your mouth pheasant in the dutch oven, chicken fried pheasant, hard to build up the freezer. We've got a new year's eve bird hunt planned though so hopefully we'll get the freezer full again. I can't think of a better way to ring in the new year - a good shotgun, a good bird dog, and hunting pheasant! Oh, found a nice little O/U but not sure if it has the right chokes in it for what we would use it for. Testing it out though.
It's a Miroku, 26" barrels, but it's a fixed skeet choke from what I can find on it. Guy selling it bought it at a gun show in '82 and he really doesn't know much about it. Miroku makes Browning shotguns and it is very similar to a Browing Citori. Super nice gun, super good price but fixed skeet chokes are a problem. It'd be fine hunting a bird ranch but not around where I live. So - my husband is going to take and shoot it at some paper and pattern it - compare it to his Ruger and see what it does. The owner said he thought it was an improved modified choke but both barrels are marked S - which I am assuming is for skeet. :) Still - a nice little gun so we'll see how it shoots. My husband said if it shoots skeet chokes it's going back. | |
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 Googly Goo
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| brlraceaddict - 2013-12-06 2:35 PM TXBO - 2013-12-06 11:03 AM brlraceaddict - 2013-12-06 12:59 PM TXBO - 2013-12-06 10:38 AM You got your freezer full of birds, addict?
TXBO - not really. We've been eating them like crazy. Pheasant strips, Melt in your mouth pheasant in the dutch oven, chicken fried pheasant, hard to build up the freezer. We've got a new year's eve bird hunt planned though so hopefully we'll get the freezer full again. I can't think of a better way to ring in the new year - a good shotgun, a good bird dog, and hunting pheasant! Oh, found a nice little O/U but not sure if it has the right chokes in it for what we would use it for. Testing it out though. It's a Miroku, 26" barrels, but it's a fixed skeet choke from what I can find on it. Guy selling it bought it at a gun show in '82 and he really doesn't know much about it. Miroku makes Browning shotguns and it is very similar to a Browing Citori. Super nice gun, super good price but fixed skeet chokes are a problem. It'd be fine hunting a bird ranch but not around where I live. So - my husband is going to take and shoot it at some paper and pattern it - compare it to his Ruger and see what it does. The owner said he thought it was an improved modified choke but both barrels are marked S - which I am assuming is for skeet. : ) Still - a nice little gun so we'll see how it shoots. My husband said if it shoots skeet chokes it's going back.
I hope it works out. I've found many shotguns whose actual choke constriction doesn't match it's markings.
Consider getting a brass choke gauge. I use mine on any shotgun or choke tube before I buy it. | |
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Firecracker Dog Lover
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| Good idea. My husband measured it and it measures the same as his Ruger Red Label but its marked S on each barrel. So we'll pattern in on some paper and see what it looks like. I really like so I am hoping it works out, if not, I told the guy who gave it to me to try I'd sell it for him if I don't buy it. He no longer shoots anymore and donated about 20 boxes of .20 gauge shells to the cause. :) | |
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Extreme Veteran
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| My dad always breads the chops. If your deer wasn't shot in an area that has alot of corn fields they will taste gamey so you may want to add more seasoning if that bothers you. Here is a pretty simple recipe I used the other day.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Fried-Venison-Backstrap/Detail.aspx?ev... | |
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Location: Haslet, Texas | What about duck breasts? What's the secret with them...wild and skinless.
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