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Opening Day of Dove Season
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<blockquote data-quote="Crane" data-source="post: 226212" data-attributes="member: 5144"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Opened up in Alabama yesterday. It's more of a social event than a hunt in my neck of the woods. Beverages, bar-b-que, Auburn and Alabama football games on big screen TV's running on generators; it was great. Took my eleven year old son on his first dove shoot. Kind of freaked him out when I handed him a Winchester model 50 12 ga. instead of his single barrel .20 ga. The model 50 is soft shooting with field loads but I worried about the weight a little. I didn't want him to get discouraged missing with a single barrel .20 ga. and figured it would be a little easier to hit with a 12 ga. IC choke; three shots doesn't hurt either. He did very well killing about 10 out of about 4 boxes of shells. That's better than some of the adults. It was a first for me, walking away and leaving him alone with a firearm. I had to drag him out of that field just to eat, then right back in. He got a little life lesson with a wounded bird. I told him to yank it's head off, but he didn't want too. After a few minutes I was becoming very annoyed with my son not doing as I told him. I was headed his way when I remembered a similiar situation I had and my dad was not very understanding. After I dispatched the bird I explained to him why it was crueler to let it suffer and he had a responsibility after wounding it to put it down quickly. I think he realized pulling the trigger is a rather sterile event that could lead to some unpleasant consequences. He had to do it a few times more before the day was done. It was a great day for me and my son had a ball, the birds were flying, the bar-b-que was good and my teams won.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crane, post: 226212, member: 5144"] [SIZE=2]Opened up in Alabama yesterday. It's more of a social event than a hunt in my neck of the woods. Beverages, bar-b-que, Auburn and Alabama football games on big screen TV's running on generators; it was great. Took my eleven year old son on his first dove shoot. Kind of freaked him out when I handed him a Winchester model 50 12 ga. instead of his single barrel .20 ga. The model 50 is soft shooting with field loads but I worried about the weight a little. I didn't want him to get discouraged missing with a single barrel .20 ga. and figured it would be a little easier to hit with a 12 ga. IC choke; three shots doesn't hurt either. He did very well killing about 10 out of about 4 boxes of shells. That's better than some of the adults. It was a first for me, walking away and leaving him alone with a firearm. I had to drag him out of that field just to eat, then right back in. He got a little life lesson with a wounded bird. I told him to yank it's head off, but he didn't want too. After a few minutes I was becoming very annoyed with my son not doing as I told him. I was headed his way when I remembered a similiar situation I had and my dad was not very understanding. After I dispatched the bird I explained to him why it was crueler to let it suffer and he had a responsibility after wounding it to put it down quickly. I think he realized pulling the trigger is a rather sterile event that could lead to some unpleasant consequences. He had to do it a few times more before the day was done. It was a great day for me and my son had a ball, the birds were flying, the bar-b-que was good and my teams won.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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