Steel shot in a Rem 1100 with a full choke barrell?

[skeet]

BTW guys. Back when you could shoot lead... I had a great load in the ol AA case. Sure some of y'all used it too. Win 209 30 grains of Alcan 7 a red winchester wad and an ounce and 3/8ths of either copper plated 5's for ducks or the same amount of nickle 3's for geese. Still have some of the duck loads left that I'll use on the pheasants out here this year. Found 3 boxes in an ammo can when we were packing to move. sigh..oh for those days again.!!

[tjwatty]

Little Skiff???? My boat is a Lowe 18ft 6 degree bottom, the other 2 in the blind are both 18ft. but the one we use in bad weather is extra wide and deep, older model Polar Kraft, no problems. Mine has 60hp Eveinrude, boat #2 has a 50 Merc. and the big one is a 70 Evin. That big boat has saved my bacon more than once. We have about a 4 mile boat ride to the blind and we are in a large bay just north of lock and dam 18 on the Mississippi. You used to be able to see the blinds from the satillite images but I haven't looked for a while.
A small boat is not what you want when a south wind starts blowing, and that's our prevailing wind most days. I've even stayed at the dock a couple of times cause I thought it was too rough.

Skeet, that's almost the exact same load we used except we used Herco powder. I had an old Winchester Ranger at that time and my shoulder still hurts when I think of it. LOL One heck of a pheasant load tho.

[skeet]

TJ, I hate to tell ya this but on the Chesapeake in those ol Northwest winds those ARE little skiffs. You can be out there in the most beautiful weather one minute and then ya see it coming. When I set up my first fishing sea duck boat I bought a Key West 17 1/2 footer. Put a 90 on that boat. It'll do 50 in fair weather.40 in rough and you still stay pretty dry. The 90 was so I could get back in a hurry if needed. I needed it a few times too.Hunted ducks on the Chesapeake one day with a 20 ft bay built skiff and almost got killed going 300 yds back to shore. That 300 yds took almost 40 minutes in that 40 mile an hour wind. BTW we left the decoys. It came up that quick. The blind we were hunting in(called a booby blind) was six ft higher than high tide and waves were hitting the bottom when we left(low tide BTW). It was gone by the time we got to shore. I understand the great lakes can get like that too. We sometimes do stupid things for a little ol duck or goose...or deer for that matter. Seriously be careful out there.