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Woodstock on shotgun for waterfowl?
Posted on 10/3/17 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 10/3/17 at 2:55 pm
I want to get into duck hunting and am looking to get a shotgun. I've been leaning towards the Weatherby PA-08 Upland. I've read some good things about the reliability and I love the look of the wood.
Some people at stores have told me the wooden stock will get messed up hunting waterfowl..
Is this true, an exaggeration? People have been hunting ducks since before polymer stocks.
Some people at stores have told me the wooden stock will get messed up hunting waterfowl..
Is this true, an exaggeration? People have been hunting ducks since before polymer stocks.
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 2:58 pm to LesticularFortitude
I'm not a waterfowl hunter, but I imagine it may just need a little more care.
Also, I just wanted to get this out of the way for others.
Also, I just wanted to get this out of the way for others.
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 2:58 pm to LesticularFortitude
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people have been hunting since before polymer stocks with beat up meat sticks
Posted on 10/3/17 at 2:59 pm to LesticularFortitude
I would only do it if I were walking to a pit blind.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 3:34 pm to LesticularFortitude
Duck hunting is extremely hard on guns. Between the water, mud, boats, blinds or walking through wood/water in the dark a shotgun will get beaten up.
I did my best to talk my dad out of buying wood on his new one. He didn't listen. About three years later he admitted he was wrong and wished he had gotten the synthetic.
I did my best to talk my dad out of buying wood on his new one. He didn't listen. About three years later he admitted he was wrong and wished he had gotten the synthetic.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 4:13 pm to LesticularFortitude
if you want to get a wood stock gun, just understand that duck hunting will beat it the hell up. It may function just fine with cleaning, but that stock can swell and split with water and get hard to pump. My waterfowl gun is matte black with polymer coating and is always scratched, muddy, etc. Inside is clean as can be, but outside is sacrificial coatings. My wood stock "upland" gun never has and never will see water.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 4:15 pm to LesticularFortitude
Sure, it will get some character to it. Don't leave it at the bottom of the lake all year and you don't have anything to worry about.
It may split or something eventually if you try to use it as a sledgehammer to drive spud poles. Don't abuse it and it'll probably outlast you. All of my pawpaws shotguns have wood stocks and have long outlasted his hunting time, which was 100% hunting swamp with dogs or duck hunting.
It may split or something eventually if you try to use it as a sledgehammer to drive spud poles. Don't abuse it and it'll probably outlast you. All of my pawpaws shotguns have wood stocks and have long outlasted his hunting time, which was 100% hunting swamp with dogs or duck hunting.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 4:39 pm to speckledawg
I knew that was coming. Long time lurker
Posted on 10/3/17 at 5:43 pm to LesticularFortitude
Wow, you did wait a while for your first post.
On topic, I had several wood stock shotguns from grandfathers and uncles that were used for duck hunting...that is until the tragic boating accident where I lost all of my firearms. They were all taken care of, but most had splits in the stocks & forearms. I've never had any issues with the synthetic stocks I've used.
On topic, I had several wood stock shotguns from grandfathers and uncles that were used for duck hunting...that is until the tragic boating accident where I lost all of my firearms. They were all taken care of, but most had splits in the stocks & forearms. I've never had any issues with the synthetic stocks I've used.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 5:58 pm to LesticularFortitude
Have hunted my entire life with wood stocked guns, primarily over/unders. Spent more time hunting the marsh than most, and while my guns have a little character, they are still in pretty good shape. Just don't be a dumbass about how you handle the gun and it will be fine.
On the bright side, if you shoot a wood gun, you likely won't fall into the poo facing meat stick carrying modern day duck hunters. So congrats on that.
On the bright side, if you shoot a wood gun, you likely won't fall into the poo facing meat stick carrying modern day duck hunters. So congrats on that.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 6:41 pm to LesticularFortitude
I have hunted waterfowl for several decades and have not seen any difference at all in the performance of my wooden guns and synthetic ones.
I am not careless with my shotguns, but not overly cautious either. I would say to buy whatever you like the best taking into consideration how you treat your other stuff and you will be okay with whatever you choose.
I am not careless with my shotguns, but not overly cautious either. I would say to buy whatever you like the best taking into consideration how you treat your other stuff and you will be okay with whatever you choose.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:23 pm to DennisReynolds
For ultimate fashion-bucking equipment, shoot 2-3/4" shells as well.
I got more wtf looks in a catahoula 6 man and one dog boat blind than I've ever gotten when I pulled out a wood stocked 870 and a box of 2-3/4" federal #3 steel.
One comment mid hunt from a baw was "dude, idk you but you mash ducks"
One of the most fun trips of my life. Opening morning, Rained the whole time, got there really stupidly early, got dominated by mosquitoes, destroyed the ducks.
I got more wtf looks in a catahoula 6 man and one dog boat blind than I've ever gotten when I pulled out a wood stocked 870 and a box of 2-3/4" federal #3 steel.
One comment mid hunt from a baw was "dude, idk you but you mash ducks"
One of the most fun trips of my life. Opening morning, Rained the whole time, got there really stupidly early, got dominated by mosquitoes, destroyed the ducks.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:26 pm to LesticularFortitude
Just buy 2 guns 
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:58 am to LesticularFortitude
I duck hunt a pit blind in a rice field. I have a wood stock shotgun. It stays in the case until I get situated in the blind. I take it out. I hunt. It goes back in the case, and I go home and wipe it down. Been a few seasons, and it still looks brand new.
I hunted public marsh land out of a pirogue for the first time opening morning of teal season this year. I will never do that again with this shotgun.
Like someone else said earlier, if you're going to be hunting a pit blind, a wood stock will be fine. If you are going to be getting wet, and odds are your gun will be getting wet, I'd suggest synthetic.
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This is the only correct answer.
I hunted public marsh land out of a pirogue for the first time opening morning of teal season this year. I will never do that again with this shotgun.
Like someone else said earlier, if you're going to be hunting a pit blind, a wood stock will be fine. If you are going to be getting wet, and odds are your gun will be getting wet, I'd suggest synthetic.
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Just buy 2 guns
This is the only correct answer.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 8:59 am
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