My first sit was a good time to use the Philadelphia era Late A 16 gauge. I started out 2 for 2 but then drifted back into more, "ahem", "reasonable dove average". The doves were close in and tight the first half hour but as the shooting picked up they got wiser and it became a 40 yard or longer game most of the time for the rest of the day.
We broke for lunch. It was tough eating grilled yellow fin freshly sliced that was caught by one of the hunters earlier in the week.
I broke out the HE for the afternoon anticipating longer shots (and just really wanting to shoot the darn thing!). My first shot was a legit 60 yard crossing shot that dropped like a rock and that got a few people's attention. (I had slipped a high brass 7.5 Mohawk in the left barrel for just such an opportunity) The highlight of the day for me came at about 2:30 when I scored a double on an incoming pair quartering to my right. The first dove dropped pretty much in front of me about 30 yards out and the second one hit the dirt twenty yards to my right just about parallel with the sunflower row I was in. I wish I had more witnesses!
It cleared up pretty good by 3:00 or so and got so hot and humid I called it a day by 4:30. The normal 1.5 hour drive home was more than 2 hours due to shore traffic and rush hour. Next time I go out it will be in the evening and it should be even better. All in all a great day to shoot Foxes!
The scolding, and preaching to, for going over the limit will come later from Grandpa. For a day or two he needs to know what a rare thing he did in killing a limit on his first shoot, at age 11, and enjoy it.
Let's just say it's pretty much impossible to fit a dog kennel in one of those things (because believe me I tried), and I needed a place to keep them when we weren't in the field. I even debated taking just one of them but couldn't even fit my smaller kennel in that thing with the back seats down. Boy did I get some evil looks from the boys when I showed up with a bag full of doves. I think they could smell them in the car when I pulled in. Oh well, I'm going to try to go again this week/weekend and take them out. I did however take out a "new to me" Parker DHE 20ga with 30" tubes that I picked up recently. I took some Foxes along too, but ended up shooting that Parker all day. I parked myself in what amounted to a hole in the corner of the field that was surrounded by taller grass. It was like shooting Dove from a Duck Blind. The birds cooperated, and I could have easily shot my limit if I was shooting better at the beginning of the afternoon. I dropped several that I couldn't find or get too, and was really missing the dogs then. Once I settled in, I started dropping them, and at increasingly longer distances. The older gentleman in the field closest to me called out (as I picked up a bird that was about 50 yds from my spot), "exactly how long are the barrels on that thing!" As Daryl said, you can't beat a tight choked long barreled 20ga, even if it is a Parker. 
