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ioannes
PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:55 pm  Reply with quote
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I have become a member:

Now my confession.

It all started when my youngest son inherited a Model 12 16ga, year 1923. I offered to buy him something else, but he insisted that he wanted to shoot the gun he inherited.

So after spending money to have the gun rebored to 2 3/4" and reblued, I then started to reload for it. After all the money that I spent, and out of kindness my son let me take it to New Mexico for a quail hunt.

While on the quail hunt my cousin with his O/U 12ga laughed at me and told me to get a modern gun that chambered a real gauge. But for some reason that ol Model 12 16ga brought down more birds than his 12ga.

I really tried not to taste the forbidden fruit of the 16ga. I looked at 12ga SxS's and pumps, telling myself that ammo was readily available for these guns. Logic told me that if I wanted to fit into society I should shoot a 12 or 20ga.

Then it happened; yesterday a fellow gun club member pushed into my hands a Model 12 16ga year 1952. I told him no, and that I wanted no part of it.

It was to late, that ol Model 12 followed me home.

Please I am showing signs of a 16ga addiction and I need help. Smile

ioannes
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Brad6260
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:30 am  Reply with quote
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ioannes Welcome.

Sorry these Genies don't go back in their bottles.

Welcome to the club!

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Dave Miles
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:14 am  Reply with quote
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ioannes welcome to the site.
Now, just wait till you hold a 0 frame, 16 gauge Parker, or one of those hard to find Sterlingworths in your hand. Wink Isn't anything sweeter than a fine old SxS in 16 gauge. Better clean out the safe and make some room, your hooked! Laughing
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TJC
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:57 am  Reply with quote
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Welcome.

Now get rid of that "sissy winchester" and get yourself a real gun, buy a Merkel. Very Happy

Sorry, wrong movie. LOL

Enjoy that old Winny for many years to come.

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hunshatt
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:30 am  Reply with quote
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yea,yea, what tjc said.
I do have a couple of wirlingworths in the garden, holding up the g-friends beans that I'd donate, oh wait they're 12's never mind
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Rick Grimes
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:27 am  Reply with quote



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ioannes

You made a smart choice. I recently added a like new 1947 model 12 16 ga. to my collection of sxs 16 ga.'s I now know the mystic of the model 12 on a small frame.

Rick

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revdocdrew
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Welcome also but a word of warning re: Dave M and Brad6260. Please see the 'Parker Putz Society' thread-their Siren song will lead you seriously astray (and you can forget about paying for your children's college tuition and/or weddings) Won't do much for domestic tranquility either.
As for the Merkel Maniacs-it has something to do with a post-Octoberfest hangover, a James Bond movie, and a 'golden BB' 50 yd head shot on a sickly pheasant that was dying anyway. Now they think there is some secret laser beam in the forearm somewhere.
Stay in the 'Worshipful Society of Winchester M-12s' and whatever you do, DON'T EVEN TOUCH A STERLINGWORTH Exclamation Wink
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Dave Miles
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:14 am  Reply with quote
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Hey Drew, I just happen to come across a nice Winchester 101, skeet gun, 12 gauge. So I bought it cause I always wanted one. But then my Parker to other gun ratio was off balance. I hunted for another 16 gauge Parker, but couldn't find one. So, I added a really nice GH, 12 gauge, with 30" Damascus barrels. Laughing
I do have a Browning BT99, single barrel trap gun I'm looking to unload. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:25 am  Reply with quote
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ioannes: See what I mean Rolling Eyes
Next, Brad 6260 will post about the Ithaca NID (not CSMC) Gr 7 single trigger SxS trap/pigeon gun he just bought at WilliamLarkinMoore (or M-21?)
And they were once just regular guys with happy wives Crying or Very sad
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Dave Miles
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:31 am  Reply with quote
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And they were once just regular guys with happy wives. Crying or Very sad

My wife is still happy, cause she knows nothing about the guns I buy.
Ans she doesn't know the combination to the safe. Laughing
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hunshatt
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:24 am  Reply with quote
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Dave, you one smart guy. kathi knows the combo, and worse , me being the smart guy that I am, conned her into cleaning all the guns. That is what started the Merkel thing. "You'v got to many guns, need to get rid of some" ok, so I loaded up some clunkers off to the local gun shop and home came the merkel" Thays not what I ment, and you know it, jacka**" , oh well
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ioannes
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:37 pm  Reply with quote
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I wish to thank you all for the support for my new " 16ga problem. Laughing

By the way, I looked into my gun safe and I noticed I had one empty slot.

Maybe a 16 sxs would fit?

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:41 am  Reply with quote
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merkel, or lc smith project funeral finish, oh wait thats my safe
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TJC
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ioannes wrote:
I wish to thank you all for the support for my new " 16ga problem. Laughing

By the way, I looked into my gun safe and I noticed I had one empty slot.

Maybe a 16 sxs would fit?

ioannes


I would recommend a nice Merkel or if you want an older classic, a nice Sterlingworth. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:59 am  Reply with quote
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Friends don't let friends shoot sterlingworths.
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