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Maybe the manufacturers figure that after emptying a magazine load of duplex from an autoloader, something suitable will hit the quarry!

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OK, thanks all for the well seasoned and valuable advice, much appreciated.

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Glad to hear you’re doing better Mike. It’s been like a football team here with its starting quarterback missing. Good to have you back.

All the Best,
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There is a XXV style Italian 12ga in the cabinet and it is a quick pointing game killer, no question. But as Old Colonel mentions above, it (surprisingly to me) isn’t well suited for skeet. It perf ...

Slightly OT (12 ga) but important topic: We have happily learned that our grandson is interested in continuing his High School Trap Shooting team efforts. He has been using a team BT99 to very good ...

A tub or whatever of Red Dot sat on the back shelf for some years until powder privation impelled me to try it. It worked so well in 7/8 oz loads, clean, reliable, compact, flowed down the tube like ...

I heartily agree with Dave regarding UV killer vests and spray. I call it my “Invisibility Cloak” because that’s exactly what it feels like in the field. If you don’t move, nothing sees you. If you ...

Selling my 1965 Corvette ranks right up there.

At least you didn’t suffer what my boss did with his 65 Corvette. It was stolen from the motel parking lot on the first night of his honeymoon.

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Taking up the 16 ga. It’s like a combination of running an orphanage and home for wayward women. They all need to be fed and cared for, and hard to turn any away.

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My hulls are a dogs breakfast of size, make, color, and condition. I mark the loads on the boxes. I regard sorting them out by color as simply time taken away from reloading more of them, the latter ...

In our modest collection, the best patterns come out of fixed chokes. The worst come out of choke tubes. And some of the latter are abysmally bad.

Another consideration: The M90 value is likely n ...

Very nice work. I imagine the original owner, if he could see the gun today, would be pleased and honored by it.

Thanks for the photos.
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Pictures of game birds are pleasant fare for the eye. But of a man and his dog - a hunter’s heart stirs. Many thanks for the photos.

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The wood is nice enough, notwithstanding the heavy coating of vegetable oil evidently slathered on it. And the price is not unattractive, which statement might lead someone to suspect me of having mo ...

What are “Hand-finished Winchester mechanics” doing in a Browning gun?

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