This past Sunday I went Oystering for the first time. I've never been a huge fan of oysters but good grief, straight out of the Chesapeake they are awesome. I now understand the term "Oyster butter". While we were out there in our kayaks It occurred to me that it is currently, concurrently, Oyster, Striped Bass, Waterfowl and Deer season here and I am surrounded by marshes many of which are legally hunt-able. Usually when I hunt I am after a specific animal but it occurred to me why not just put gear in my kayak for any occurrence and head out into the marsh for the day and see what happens.
I have my 870 but it is looong and a pain to handle in the kayak. I also have my Baikal U/O 12ga/.30-06 which would be perfect save two things. 1) It is totally illegal to hunt with rifles here and I think a game warden having a bad day could possibly cite me for the rifle barrel even if I have no ammo. 2) I paid $300 for the Baikal about ten years ago. They have a bunch of them at my local gun shop at the moment and want over $800 for them now. I love it and would be pissed If I were to drop it in the drink.
Anyway, that's what the cheap shotgun thread I started was about. I think keeping a waterfowl load in the tube and some buckshot really handy would be the way to go. I think extractors, which what the Baikal has, not ejectors would be the way to go so as to not be flinging an unfired birdshot shell overboard should I need to change to buckshot in a hurry. I suppose a lanyard on the Baikal could be my answer, this is EXACTLY what it was made for, after all. A cheap 12/12 or 20/20 U/O would be perfect, but who ever heard of a cheap U/O?
Anybody else do anything like this?
Multi Species from a Kayak
1'Sorry stupid people but there are some definite disadvantages to being stupid."
-John Cleese
-John Cleese