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How do you feel about hunters floating a 4th shell?

  • I have no problem with it.

    Votes: 18 32.1%
  • I think it's wrong.

    Votes: 38 67.9%

POLL: How do you feel about "floating" a 4th shell?

3K views 52 replies 31 participants last post by  toolmaker 
#1 ·
someone mentioned it in a recent thread so let's take a simple poll...
 
#2 ·
i dont even know how to do it.....
If you cant hit em in 3 prob cant in 4!
 
#6 ·
i_willie12 said:
i dont even know how to do it.....
If you cant hit em in 3 prob cant in 4!
there are TONS of youtube videos showing how to do it in lots of different shotguns...you know, if you were inclined to do such
 
#7 ·
Choose to follow the law or not. The purpose of a plug is to limit the number of shots a hunter can take to three. Floating a shell is little different than modifying a plug to allow three in the tube.

I see this in same light as shooting before or after legal time, shooting over the limit or out of season. No one is going to die, and you will probably get away with it, but getting away with it does not make it okay. If you are being ethical, you do not do it.
 
#8 ·
I was dove hunting earlier this year and had my stoeger with me, got checked by the game warden, and he showed me how to float the fourth in my gun. Then he said hey don't do that we will take your gun if you get caught... I had no idea it was possible until he did it.
 
#9 ·
bullfries said:
I was dove hunting earlier this year and had my stoeger with me, got checked by the game warden, and he showed me how to float the fourth in my gun. Then he said hey don't do that we will take your gun if you get caught... I had no idea it was possible until he did it.
Too bad you didn't video him doing it.
Pretty sure he was in violation when he did that.
Prove it though.
 
#17 ·
boney fingers said:
The question is, is it legal to hunt with a gun that is capable of floating a forth (not all can). If my gun is capable of holding five shots and I only load three, I am in violation so if my gun is capable of holding 4 and I only load 3, am I not in violation?
You can hunt with a gun capable of floating a shell because the gun was not intended to be loaded that way. Most have no idea how to do it and it is kind of a pain in the backside when you are trying to get that extra shell loaded anyway. Well, that and it is unethical and illegal.
 
#18 ·
Trent_Rivers said:
not very practical because you don't hardly have time for 4 shots.
That's what I've found. even though I could I don't even use the 3rd shot that often.
 
#19 ·
Yeah Gomer Pyle.
1st shot is usually easy. Second shot I am hopefully acquiring a new target and shooting and the third shot is always questionable. Sometimes if I miss on the first two Ill fire the last shot out of frustration :hammer:
 
#20 ·
Trent_Rivers said:
Yeah Gomer Pyle.
1st shot is usually easy. Second shot I am hopefully acquiring a new target and shooting and the third shot is always questionable. Sometimes if I miss on the first two Ill fire the last shot out of frustration :hammer:
Yep...often that 3rd shot is just a Hail Mary
 
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