Since the Red Label was introduced, the menu of variants has When the 3-inchers paid off on a wild-flushing, tough old rooster. Stuff was fine for most opportunities, but there were a couple of times Included 2.75-inch Federal Game-Shok Heavy Field Loads as well as theģ-inch Federal Wing-Shok-both featuring No. The option of being able to use 3-inch shells. I've done a bit of hunting with a 20-gauge gun, but I mustĬonfess that this was the only occasion when I really was grateful for Wish to use the tighter barrel (M or even F), speed is even less of Of time to flip that selector to the IC-tubed barrel. Three and the dog's getting birdy, you'll always have plenty When you're approaching a good concealment spot for a rooster or The front (or rear) trigger as you would on an English game gun. O/U's single- selective mechanical trigger and tang-safety mountedīarrel selector aren't as quick to operate as simply reaching for So variable, the choke selection feature paid off. While traversing gullies, fencelines and creek bottoms, undertakings Hunt-namely being able to break the gun and drape it over your shoulder I began to appreciated the simple virtues of an over-under on this To be honest, most of my hunting has been with pumps or autos. Of wide-open real estate we were working in. The inevitable gaps between the guns that opened up in the huge chunks Range stuff that you had to try for when birds started squirting out of Some of the tree lines and coulees, but there was also a lot of long Geometrically delineated "cornfield push"-with blockers at This type of prairie hunting bore very little resemblence to the type of
Hunted west of Bismarck in some of the prettiest prairies, ranchlandsĪnd coulees I'd ever seen, first southwest of Killdeer, then near Native North Dakotan, was eager to disabuse me of that notion which, as "real" pheasant hunting was in South Dakota.
Never hunted North Dakota, having always ignorantly assumed that all the Go on a North Dakota pheasant hunt, I jumped at the chance.
To hunt with one, so when I was invited by Ruger's Ken Jorgensen to I've shot Red Labels before, but had never had the opportunity Sort of turned the "we'll start with a 12 and work down"Ĭonventional marketing wisdom on its head. Interesting, was that it was originally introduced in 20-gauge, which Not to mentionīeing the only American-made production O/U around. Years, become a classic over-under in its own right. Introduced in 1978 Ruger's Red Label has, in the past 31
MLA style: "Ruger Red Label 20." The Free Library.