Hi all, on a recent hunt with Wade Burns, we were comparing guns (both Dickinsons) I noticed that his 12ga was a bit lighter than my 16. Granted, his has 26" bbls and mine are 28".

But, due to the size of the bores, I figured that he had more air in his bbls than I did in mine. That shaved off some weight.

Then Wade said that the hollow butt in his gun was filled with helium so it was lighter than my plain old air filled stock.

Taking my gun into the local Dollar Store tomorrow to fill my stock with helium (I suppose I'll have to buy a balloon however)

Anyone have anymore ideas on how to reduce weight?

Best!

Greg

Here's an idea, carry your new Turk shotgun while spending some time on a treadmill instead of a keyboard and maybe you'll both shave some weight. All the best!!!

Take the shells out? Later, Mark II

Order a set of precision cast foam titanium barrels. Have the action replaced with anti-gravity unobtanium. I'm not sure what the handling dynamics will be with a gun that you have to hold down to keep from floating away on the wind, but I will be anxiously awaiting your report.

DDA

Ah, the Christmas spirit at its best.

Why would he do that? We spent a lovely day shooting birds out the windows of my Rover while eating donuts and drinking chocolate milk by the gallon.

I still think Hellium is the key to faster target acquisition.

In the last six months I have gone from a flabby 202 to a svelte 187 pounds of rippling muscle. That loss is the equivalent of two Dickinsons.

Sub the lead shot with puffed wheat. Get on Mike's 6 dog chase training program, and complain a few times to your wife about her cooking in front of your friends and family. That last tip is especially effective.

The helium idea is good, but instead I would get two or three helium balloons and tie them in different places along the gun. Make sure the strings are long enough and they will be out of the line of sight. This will only work when used in fields, oh, and just make sure you don't let go of the gun or else it will float away.

What kind of donuts.......?.......

For personal weight reduction, tell your wife that your doctor has recommended the lover's diet: grab your mate instead of your plate. You burn 250 calories a pop.

Better still . . . arrange a 2 hour rendezvous with Suzy Favor Hamilton. One hour in the sack, one hour on the track.

I don't think 250 calories every other month is going to make much difference.

First you need to recalibrate your scales. Most scales are one to two pounds heavier per hundred pounds net reading than what a persons actual weight is. This is done at the factory to make ladies feel fatter than they are. I think mine are off a full ten percent. That or Global Warming is causing an increase in gravity in some places, like my house.

Little know facts like that you can share with your wife if you want to start a fasting diet. Be fast if she throws anything, be faster out the door if she reaches for a heavy object like her favorite broom. Be at fault for her favorite broom snapping over your head and you are in a greater jam than when a game warden approaches with a bad case of hemorrhoids on his mind. Buying her a new broom will not help, or so I am told.

Why powdered of course.

You mean every other year......didn't you?

I am a Texan. So yeah, using the standard Texan exaggeration factor of twelve you would be correct.

Dr. Armstrong's chukar diet; eat only chukar and cheat grass....that you harvested yourself.

Or you could turn your stock duplicator loose on a hunk o'balsa....they say some gentlemen PREFER "blondes"!

I KNEW IT! One quail Photoshop'd 12 times...all these years...

No shortage of hot air in California either. And always remember that you used the pheasants pointed and retrieved by my dogs and shot by me for your Kansas photo ops.

Now it's getting deep! There's no pheasant left in kansas!

Just putting that statement in writing where mama-bear might see it tells us you have stones the size of Texas. Don't ask me how I know things like that are a BAD idea.

Keith, sometimes smartass can get you in serious trouble with the other half. One I have to tell on myself: After the wife and I saw "Indecent Proposal", where Robert Redford offers married couple Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore $1 million to spend a night with Demi, the wife asks me whether I'd take a million bucks and let someone have sex with her. The ONLY correct answer, of course, is something on the order of: "Dear, to me you're priceless!"

However, my smartass immediately kicked into overdrive. I said: "Dear, that was a million for Demi Moore. For you, I'd take $50,000!" Pretty cold in the doghouse for the next couple weeks.

After using a baloon in the stock, just to balance the gun, you could put helium in a condom stuffed in the left barrel cause I know you don't need it

Im Sorry chuck, My bad ,Please forgive my thoughts, Until next season!