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08-24-2009, 03:22 PM
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I started hunting at age 4 with my grandfathers. I started carrying my own gun at age 6. It was a H&R model 88 20 gauge. I still have it, and it is still a beauty. I am better with that shotgun than any other I pickup, but then I have had a couple decades to practice with it.
I only started skeet shooting (other than just messing around with a thrower) last year at the skeet range with dad. I am using a mossberg model 500 20 gauge. I think the guy with the 12K 28 gauge OU was stunned at how well I was doing with it. After all his attitude (and yes he voiced it) was that if it didn't cost at least $5k then it wouldn't work for skeet at all, it just wasn't enough gun. He had alot of surprises coming that day. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
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08-25-2009, 12:56 PM
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I really REALLY want a coach gun length side by side with functional hammers. But as long as I am dreaming I want to win the lottery too.
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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08-26-2009, 08:58 AM
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yeah but so many of them the hammers are just decoration. . . .
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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#6
08-26-2009, 04:39 PM
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I do quite abit of hunting with a shotgun. For uplands, which include pheasant, sharptail and huns, I use only a 20ga. Used an old Savage/Stevens model 311A SXS for decades. One day I decided I should have an new lighter weight O/U so I bought a Beretta 20 ga. Yes they are nice guns, but it didn't take to long to find that I really did miss the double trigger. My son has the old 311A now. If it wouldn't be for my wife possible killing me, I would trade him even up for the old 311A. For ducks and geese I mostly use my Stoeger O/U 12 ga. It's a workhorse and doesn't mind laying around in dirty muddy stubblefields where we mainly hunt. Season is close at hand again. My young lab is always ready to go as am I.
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08-26-2009, 10:55 PM
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Shotguns
Personally I could never shoot a SXS very well. Oh I had a few that were ok.. Neat on a quail shoot..but I really was so quick on a covey rise 2 shots just didn't cut it too well. Course i was young and young'uns always want to shoot more. Had a Win M-21 or 3 that I shot ok 12 16 and a 20..had a 410 but never shot it. I also used a Stevens 311 in 16 ga for one season when they went to steel shot. I could still shoot an ounce and a quarter with the 16 but it was again..a 2 shooter. I was guiding and actually needed 3 shots. The double triggers were a pain too. I had a really nice double gun with 2 sets of bbls. Bought it at the Grand one year. Had a set of 32 Inch trap bbls and a set of 26 inch skeet bbls. Miller Single trigger and I shot it great(at skeet) but someone paid me too much money to think about keeping it. It was a Fox SxS made in the mid 30's.. Had a bit of recoil too. Only SXS I have now is an old Parker 12 ga D grade A Win 21 20 ga bird gun and an Ithaca 28 ga..Also made in the 30's
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