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My friend Robbie finally made it down with his big guns this morning and we found ourselves under a flight line at dawn. Robbie was using his Tolley double 8 and he gave me his Baker double 4 again. Robbie was just a bit too far off to the side of the flight line but he he made good use of the one and only chance he had and bagged a single greylag. I was in a good position under the bulk of the geese that we saw but most was too high for a shot. The first 5 greylags that came to me was fairly low so I had to take the shot well out in front, I swung the huge gun on to the leading bird and down he came about 60 yards in front, the remaining 4 split and I swung on to the 2 on the left and to my delight I dropped one of them, a right and a left with the double 4. I had a couple more bangs but failed to connect, the next bang had quite a surprise in store. A group of 8 geese peeled away from a skein to investigate my calls, I swung the gun up onto the leading bird, pulled the trigger and the next I knew I was on my back flat out and unsure as to what had just happened. Out the corner of my eye I saw the bird falling so I sent the Max out and regained my feet, the gun was laying about 5 feet behind me thankfully on muddy grass and not stones. I thought something about Robbies reloading had gone seriously wrong but when I opened the gun I found it had been a double discharge. I would never describe his 27lb double 4 as lively but by god she seemed quite lively as she disappeared over my shoulder with my trigger finger buckled in the trigger guard after 8oz of AAA left the muzzle, but on the bright side the dog came back with a greylag. There was more geese in the air but after that carry on we called it a day with 4 birds in the bag. I think the big gun might need a trip to the gun doctor for a check up to make sure that doesn't happen again.