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Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Lexington, KY

I've been lurking here since I bought my 16ga earlier in the summer. Good stuff. Just returned from a great trip to South Dakota. Lots of birds, good dog work, and a good friend.

Left my backup guns in the case and did the whole week with my new Arrieta 871 round action game gun. Used the 27" barrels out of the 3 barrel set, choked light skeet/light skeet, and with #5's in the first barrel and #4's in the second, it was deadly on roosters. We limited out every day.

Now, to get the gun back to the smith for the permanent recoil pad. Shot this trip with a slip on pad, as I've been working with a gun fitter to get a permanent LOP established.

As soon as I get the picture thing figured out, I'll post a few shots from our trip out west.

Thanks for all the great info on this site.

Welcome aboard Jim. Sounds like you had a great trip with a cool new gun. Looks like you have a winner there.

Very cool. I'm doing the slip on pad thing too for now. What kind of permanent pad are you going to put on? I'm thinking of trying my hand at a leather pad.

Member Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 230 Location: SW Idaho

This is a Galazan brown rubber pad, 1/2" I just had installed. Note that I kept the curvature in the butt. I had them use a milling machine instead of cutting it square. I think it looks better that way.

I get my barrels next week.

Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Lexington, KY

I'm having a leather pad built. I bought the gun from Fieldsports in Michigan, and am sending it back to them for the repair. I also did the gun fitting there, so it's the logical place to have the pad installed.