The American pastime of hunting...questions

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by BeanCounter

David,

I've got over 20 shotguns. I like my little Miroku LW 20 O/U for quail. I still shoot my Monkey Wards .410 that I got when I was 7 when quail hunting too. I've got 6 Model 12's but for some reason I can't shoot the shuckers as well. I've got a Remington 1100 too which is nice so I agree with you there.

Turnpike Boy,

Nothing like making a 800+ yard shot with the .375 H&H on a 7 point elk off the bluffs of Gravel Mountain there North of Jackson Hole. Now there's a head that's hung over my fireplace.

I probably have as many shotguns myself, been collecting Brownings made before 1936 for some time now, have 8 of them, 2 model 12s, one 12 and one 16, I shoot both of them well, got a 20 you want to let go????????it'll finish my set, also looking for a shooter 97....I'm kinda starting to get into the cowboy action shooting and need a 97 for the three gun competition......

I probably have as many 16s as 12s, started off with the Reimngton 1100 when I was a kid and have always liked the 16s..

I do most of my hunting with either an el cheapo spanish made over/under, but it's well balanced and I shoot it well,made some modifications to it,trigger job,ported barrels,and a few other little things, the other gun I use the most is a Beretta AL390, second sweetest shooter behind the 1100s, to me anyway..........

Most of my shotgunning is for ducks/geese and we have to use steel shot, so I don't use any of the older guns,wish I could...the model 12s are my small game guns, the 1100 16 gauge is mostly used for doves (we hardly have anymore quail around these parts) and skeet shoots.

David

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Interesting, thanks for that...and yes, we are in NO position to throw stones, but baggy camo gear is so much worse than herringbone and tweed...ROFL

The herrigbone and tweed do look the part on a guy mounted on a nice horse getting ready for a fox hunt, very traditional......

my hunting clothes are geared more for comfort and use, small game and upland bird hunting usually invovles a lot of walking in thick stuff, briars and brambles, I think you'll call the stuff.......you see a lot of guys wearing baggy camo,cause they got tons of the stuff dirt cheap at thousands of army surplus stores as well as mail order houses all over the country..........

One thing I do admire about the Brits is that they take the time and lessons to learn proper shooting and gun fitting.... most Americans just buy a gun off the rack at Wally World and go hunting the next day without ever sighting it or testing the pattern......

Boy, this thread sure beats those political threads, for me anyway..........

David