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I have a 6 lb Belgian Visser boxlock with side plates and 26" barrels with a Churchill rib. It is choked cylinder and full and I've had it bent to fit me. I use RST and B&P 2.5 inch shells, especially the one ounce RSTs. I even use RST spreaders in the cylinder tube. I hunt pheasant, grouse and quail with it, just changing the ammo to fit the game.
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vol: birds should fear the man who shoots just one gun...
being a part time hobby gun dealer affords me with the opportunity to handle and shoot many different guns...it also provides a handy excuse when i miss, which is more often than not.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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[]  [/email] The gun that started it all for me was this 16-bore LC Smith (that my brother now owns). It's a 1927 featherweight Field Grade that seemed to fit just about everybody in my clan (we always were fighting over who got to use it). What the appeal really was, in retrospect, was it's light weight (relative to the other options available in the family at that time). This particular gun has cost me a fair amount of money over the years.
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vol: birds should fear the man who shoots just one gun...
being a part time hobby gun dealer affords me with the opportunity to handle and shoot many different guns...it also provides a handy excuse when i miss, which is more often than not. LOL Ed, I always though that the basis for insisting I shoot all my guns was to be able to use that excuse.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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[]  [/email] Yet another gun that I've subjected to the tender mercies of TSA. It's a Ugartechea Grade 3 BLE 28 that I picked up slightly used at Lion Country Supply a few years ago (I was near their shop, flyfishing the Little Juniata River and Spruce Creek one spring) that I could never completely warm up to. Like so many guns I've owned, it just didn't fit (too-much cast off and too short), so it went on it's way to a better home. It was a svelte little unit that weighed 5lbs9 w/28 tubes, and I thought it would be the answer to all of my needs in the grouse woods. Sadly, I found that I missed far-more than I hit with it.
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Sometimes, the ones that carry the best are not the ones with which one hits the best.
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[]  [/email] The English 16 that I ultimately settled on. Grouse guns seem to be very good quail guns as well. This is the very first bird I shot at with my W. Richards. It is also the very first wild Bobwhite I've ever killed here in Colorado.
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[]  [/email] Just found this in my files. My father-in-law's front yard in early September of 2012. Only six months to go now!
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There is but one. 
Last edited by Tim Frazier; 03/11/13 06:26 PM.
"Not all who wander are Lost"
-Hoppie 14'
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An early Model 37 in 12 gauge?
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