The blind in the last photo (photo from 5 years ago) was not a permanent blind. Dick & I just stacked those tumble weeds around my two man portable blind. When we were done all we did was load my blind into the truck and just let the wind blow the tumble weeds away. We picked up all our empty's in that spot; it was way off the road so we just left the dead crows there for the coyotes. From the road if you looked out there you could not see the dead crows 'it was as if it never happened" and that's the way Dick & I like it.
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I figured that is what you meant, it threw me at the start because those 8x10 photos of the swans are not in the crow museum. Those swans make a 6 foot splash when shot over placid water. Some vary in weight, anywhere from 12 to 25 pounds. The ones in the photo were 15 pounders.
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That is a custom stock & for end on that 20 gauge 870. Reinhart Fajen of Warsaw MO did the work on that shotgun with the trap butt stock. That is the gun I shot my 100,000th crow with in the dvd "The Art of Crow Hunting" The other 870 (a 12 gauge) was also done by Reinhart Fajen and that is the gun I was using to kill the crows the 20 gauge could not touch on the 551 bird shoot at the end of the dvd.
Here is a photo of the 12 gauge, the wood is French walnut.
Here is another photo of the 20 gauge on a white wing dove hunt in Mexico.