The Shotgun Thread

[Lnk]

The one I am currently trying to hunt with.

 

[Duce]

While shooting trap at Livingston County gun club with my Remington 870 trap, a friend of mine handed me his Perazzi and said give that a try. One smooth gun! Way to poor for those!! Mine are Winchester model 12, Winchester 50 and good old Remington 870.

 

[old guy]

While shooting trap at Livingston County gun club with my Remington 870 trap, a friend of mine handed me his Perazzi and said give that a try. One smooth gun! Way to poor for those!! Mine are Winchester model 12, Winchester 50 and good old Remington 870.

Winchester 50, if I recall, those had a fiberglass wrapped barrel.

 

[greystone mountain man]

Winchester 50, if I recall, those had a fiberglass wrapped barrel.

That's model 59 I have one of those.my grandfather bought it new.i think that's the only model that had it but I'm not swearing to it.

 

[greystone mountain man]

About 5 or 6 year's ago I was cleaning it and took the butt plate off found a note he put in it.said him and 4 more of my other family members went to South Carolina quail hunting they all killed their limits for a week.it was in 1961.

 

[ammoaddict]

About 5 or 6 year's ago I was cleaning it and took the butt plate off found a note he put in it.said him and 4 more of my other family members went to South Carolina quail hunting they all killed their limits for a week.it was in 1961.

That's awesome.

 

[greystone mountain man]

He'd been gone about 8 years when I found it.i about started crying,hung it on the wall and that's where it's been ever since.

 

[full chizel]

While shooting trap at Livingston County gun club with my Remington 870 trap, a friend of mine handed me his Perazzi and said give that a try. One smooth gun! Way to poor for those!! Mine are Winchester model 12, Winchester 50 and good old Remington 870.

I bought a model 12 from a guy at work for $100

 

[Lnk]

I bought a model 12 from a guy at work for $100

Seems to be the going rate, exactly how I got that franchi 48AL

 

[old guy]

That's model 59 I have one of those.my grandfather bought it new.i think that's the only model that had it but I'm not swearing to it.

OK, I stand corrected. Yeah, there was only one model.

 

[ammoaddict]

He'd been gone about 8 years when I found it.i about started crying,hung it on the wall and that's where it's been ever since.

I can relate brother. My dad's been gone since 1999. I have his old Winchester 61 pump 22. I get it out every father's day and shoot it. I still get a few tears in my eyes.

 

[Squareground3691]

I can relate brother. My dad's been gone since 1999. I have his old Winchester 61 pump 22. I get it out every father's day and shoot it. I still get a few tears in my eyes.

Heck yeah,

 

[Duce]

Winchester 50, if I recall, those had a fiberglass wrapped barrel.

Super thin steel barrel. Not wrapped in fiberglass, many different barrels are available.

 

[old guy]

Super thin steel barrel. Not wrapped in fiberglass, many different barrels are available.

It was corrected a few posts back, it was the 59 that had the glass wrapped barrel.

 

[av8or3]

I have a cool story to share. I was introduced to “wing shooting” when I was in the 5th grade by a Marine named Paul Yeager. His family lived next to ours on Alexander Rd in MEMQ Capehart, MCAS Cherry Point,N.C. Sgt Yeager was in charge of the Rifle Range on base at that time. (He is also mentioned in a book about Carlos Haithcock as having contributed to his training while Carlos was stationed there.) Anyway, I spotted he and his daughter Kathy out back in their yard shooting a BB gun. He was pitching aluminum pie pans up in the air and she was shooting at them with the BB gun. I was over there quicker than it took me to write this sentence. Kathy was also my first kiss EVER. Our families were entwined often in those years. For a short time in my senior year of High School I lived with the Yeagers. Paul was overseas and due home soon and I was living with three awesome looking females that wanted nothing to do with me. lol. Mrs Yeager was a good friend though, and she loaned me the double barrel Fox (I think ) from over the fireplace to go dove shooting with friends. I blasted away all day and hit maybe two birds out of 25. I returned the gun to its place over the fireplace when I got home. It wasn’t long afterwards when Paul returned home. I watched him walk up from the curb where the taxi dropped him greeted by Brownie (their guard dog). After re-establishing contact with Brownie with a swift shot to the head with his crutch, he walked up to the house. The first thing he did inside was walk up to the shotgun and stick his fingers in the barrels. He was looking for some $100 bills he had rolled up and stashed in there in case of an emergency while he was gone. He did not tell Mrs Yeager they were there and when he asked where they were she turned to me. The truth is I never saw them. I never cleared those barrels (visually) before loading. I blew them to smithereens. lol, and didn’t know it. I was on his *s-word list for a long time.

 

[av8or3]

Ok, one more very funny story. Not shotgun related but since you’re here.
Mr Yeager sent Kathy and I out to catch a whole bunch of Blue Crabs for a boil he was planning for the 4th of July. We did this by tying a piece of chicken to a long string and tossing it out into the water (coast of Eastern N.C.). The crabs would grab the chicken and drag it to deeper water making the string tight. When that happened you simply pulled them back and net them when they got close enough. They’re too greedy to let go.
Kathy and I checked out a canoe from Special Services and paddled out to a spot on the Neuse River that we thought would be good and set out 4 lines. It didn’t take very long at all to fill the big trash can we had set up in the middle of the canoe. We were pulling the lines in for the last time when she hollered she had a big one. (You can tell) When he came into view I had to agree it was the biggest blue crab I’d ever seen. I slipped the net under that rascal and just as I was about to scoop him up he let go of the chicken and spread out his claws. He was too big to go in the net! So, in desperation I sort of “flung” him towards the top of the trash can where he bounced once before landing inside the canoe on Kathy’s end of the boat. As that big crab began scratching his way around the bottom of that aluminum canoe at Kathy’s feet she began screaming and stood up to try and get away from him.
And, you guessed it, she overturned the canoe, setting free almost 100 angry crabs that made certain they all bumped into her and I on their way to freedom. I was able to use my Boy Scout training to re-float the canoe. I don’t remember at exactly what point she stopped talking, but she hasn’t spoken a word to me since.

 

[beaglebriar]

The one I am currently trying to hunt with.View attachment 443670

I have one in 20 gauge. My son has “claimed“ it.

 

[Lnk]

I have one in 20 gauge. My son has “claimed“ it.

I can shoot pistol and rifle well, I try to aim a shotgun the same way as rifle and pistol. Front sight/bead in focus, target blurry. Doesn't work with a shotgun. Could learn, but I am afraid I would lose the other two. So I use more shells for less birds come dove season. It is what it is.

 

[Loony661]

I can shoot pistol and rifle well, I try to aim a shotgun the same way as rifle and pistol. Front sight/bead in focus, target blurry. Doesn't work with a shotgun. Could learn, but I am afraid I would lose the other two. So I use more shells for less birds come dove season. It is what it is.

When shotgun shooting, it has to be instinctive. Point and shoot, follow through.. forget the bead.

 

[Lnk]

When shotgun shooting, it has to be instinctive. Point and shoot, follow through.. forget the bead.

Easier said than done for me. I shot pistol competitively, and was a Marine, so some things are hard wired at this point. I still have fun, just use more shells is all. I can't bring myself to focus on the target.