|
S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
|
|
|
Forums10
Topics39,494
Posts562,060
Members14,586
| |
Most Online9,918
Jul 28th, 2025
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 118
Sidelock
|
OP
Sidelock
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 118 |
I was looking at my safe stocked full of shotguns and I wondered if I had to get rid of all of them but for one, and only one, which one would I keep. After much anguish and conflict I've decided I'd keep the 16b Fox Steringworth. Despite it is a compromise on ducks the benefits and pleasure I get using it for upland persuades my sensibilities. What would you keep and why?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,344 Likes: 648
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,344 Likes: 648 |
Of all my shotguns (not many), I would have to keep my Darne R-15 12 bore. The thing is tough, it could be at home in a duck blind, the Sandills chasing sharptails, or switch grass pursuing pheasants and quail. It fits me well and it takes practically no effort on my part to mount the gun, swing thru a bird and kill it clean. I have all the confidence in the world when I'm paired with my Darne. Its nice to look at too.  Dustin
Last edited by LeFusil; 04/03/07 11:44 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 5,983
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 5,983 |
I love 'em all but if I could only keep one it would be my Parker. VH, 1926, 1-1/2 frame, .007" and .013" chokes, redone by Oscar about 5 years ago.
JL
> Jim Legg <
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,522
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,522 |
Assuming such a choice could only be forced by dire monetary circumstance, I would probably get more for my Kreighoff, Parker and Rizzini than for the old Keighoff sidelock 16ga so I suppose that is what I would have until the last. Otherwise the question makes no sense to me and I would not dispose of any of them.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,439 Likes: 4
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,439 Likes: 4 |
I guess its the Dickson 12b round action I'd keep........but this hasn't been easy!
Last edited by Bob Blair; 04/04/07 02:35 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,544
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,544 |
If I had to do it for financial reasons, I'd sell the 'good stuff' and keep my rescued J.Thompson hammergun. It cost me £50, is a bit of a mongrel but the quality is great. I did all the cosmetic work, Dave Mitchell did the real work and I shoot it better than any other gun I own, even my fitted Purdey sidelock.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 7,893 Likes: 651
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 7,893 Likes: 651 |
I would save a F grade 1100. Most likely the first of that grade ever made. Mint condition and worth more than all but a few of my real double guns. With that I could start to rebuild a decent assortment if I sold it and started over again, which I would have to do. It is a real looker but still just an auto with gold inlays.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 572
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 572 |
It would be very difficult to choose one but my T.and H. King is the best performing one that I have. It's kind of chunk (8 1/4 lbs) but so am I. I hope this never happens.
Our Dogs make our lives better
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 5,185 Likes: 67
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 5,185 Likes: 67 |
From a strictly utilitarian POV it would be my first shotgun, my Browning 12ga BPS pumpgun. I have
- a 24" upland bbl. w/ Inv. chokes
- a 28" waterfowl/target bbl. w/ Inv. chokes
- a Hastings fully rifled slug barrel with integral scope mount
- an open sighted turkey barrel with extra full tube installed.
I could pretty much hunt anything in NA with this excepting perhaps antelope or sheep.
If sentiment is going to enter in it would be my $6K BLNE that just got finished after years of trials & tribulations. As close as I shall come to bespoke.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 520
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 520 |
Since my primary interest is hunting, I would have to keep my 1963 vintage (with metal 'O' ring yet) Remington 1100, because that is the one gun I own that I have enough different parts for, that I could outfit it properly to hunt just about anything one would hunt or shoot with a shotgun. 26" Skeet barrel, to 30", 3" magnum barrel, with screw in chokes, sling swivels, and recoil pad.
The one gun I would hate most to part with would be my BSS 20 ga. Sporter.
|
|
|
|
|
