Wowie, Fast Eddie. you finally posted something really interesting to me. Although I mainly shoot side-by-sidesd and Win M12's. I have owned a light 12 Belgian mfg. A-5 for over 40 years, 28" mod. VR barrel- not quite as heavy as a M-1 Garand (I was an armorer in the USMC) but solid and reliable. I use it for turkey with coppered lead loads, ducks and geese with steel shot, and sometimes for volume shooting with the 3-shot plug removed for crows and pigeons. Unlike the younger yuppie members of our DU chapter, who go ga-ga over all the synthetic stocked semi-autoloaders, mine has never failed to fire, early Sept. "bonus season on geese" to late Jan Goose season-like a Timex-- "takes a lickin', keeps on tickin. Great article. RWTF
