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I confess.....I am new to the 16 gauge world.

Caught the bug this fall - started out harmlessly shooting doves with my new old Stevens 311A (d) Mod/Full. Next thing I know I have four 16s. The aforementioned 311, next an Ithica nitro special IC/IC, then along came a deal on a 1100......now a BPS 24".

Where does it end? (Right now says the spouse). "Either you stop buying 16s or I go"................I am sure going to miss her!!

OK....I jest.

I don't know much, but hopefully you can help me change that.

Hlavoun

Member Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 67 Location: Wisconsin

Welcome to our demented world!!!

Wow......are there more than two of us that are demented?

Member Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 451 Location: La-Tx

What, no Sweet-16?

I have been reading this BB for a month and have been very interested in the 16 ga. and it's history and performance. I'm new to pointing dogs in the last two years and books I've read by George Bird Evans and similar authors talk of the tradition of 16 ga. and SxS shotguns and pointing dogs. So I'm expecting delivery on my Uggie grade 1 16 next Wednesday.

I am also cheap. I haven't found the right deal on a Sweet 16......yet.

I also have to watch my step on the next one.

I think the spouse was taking notes on the growning stash of shotguns lying around. I didn't mention that there are three or more other gauges and guns from a former life in various hiding places in and around the house.

Member Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 451 Location: La-Tx

Trust me. When you get your collection above 50 they quit counting.

Member Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 Location: Minnesota

You'll love your sweetie when you find her. You will like it here too. Great bunch of guys with the best shotguns ever made. You will learn fast. The little woman will get used to it Rolling Eyes

Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 37 Location: Middletown, Ohio

got bird dogs check, got 16's check, who needs a wife? Laughing

oh wait theres that whole dinner and cleaning thing. Crying or Very sad

gotta go shes coming. Shocked

Welcome aboard, Hlavoun. I see that you hail from the place of the former "best little whorehouse in Texas." Very Happy

I spent 7 yrs in Austin while attending UT.

Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 109 Location: S.W.PENNSYLVANIA

I own 7 shotguns, not sure you can ever have to many. I currrently own more than I can shoot at one time, but not as many as I need. As I have said many times, I think I have bought my last shotgun. But I know I am lying to myself.

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Not 'til they scatter my ashes, I hope. Smile

At the moment, I only have four, but I hope to add one or two more this year. I want another 16 to go with my Uggie sxs. Having said that, when I get a bad case of the covets, I ask myself, shouldn't I be saving this money for hunting trips this Fall rather than buying another gun?
Rolling Eyes

Yeah, right. Shocked

Member Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 451 Location: La-Tx

I have in the neighborhood of 40 or so shotguns plus what rifles and pistols I have and am in no way near the "last" one. But I am in a constant state of awareness looking for the "next" one.