doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Y'all know how I hate to brag on my dogs

but I know many of you have a keen interest in them and I try to keep you informed of their progress.

At the West Texas Regional Elimination Trial last month my Molly dog won and is now the NSTRA West Texas Regional Champion. And she will be for eleven more months!


And my Red dog was first runner-up:


This is the shogun I used for field trialing this Spring. Until I started writing it up I believed that it was an FN. But now I'm not sure of that. It is a 12 gauge, serial number: 38XX, choked 0.006" and 0.024". Chamber is currently 2-3/4", minimum wall thickness: is 0.035", minimum wall thickness at end of chamber is 0.095". It has 27" sideclipped barrels and wieghs 6lbs 3oz.
Stock dimensions are 14-7/8 x 1-9/16 x 2-7/16, castoff is a 1/4" at the heel, 1/2" at the toe. Extractor gun with a straight grip, splinter forend and auto safety. It has a black rubber pad pad, no trademark. Also sports sling swivels.

Here is Saturday's scoreboad:


And Sunday's:

Congratulations Mike. Not a thing in the world wrong with being proud of your dogs or your children!...Geo

Congratulations! beautiful dogs and a beautiful gun to go with them.




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Congrats. Mike. Always enjoy the updates.

Congrats on the dogs! Thanks for the sharing the story!

I really enjoy things with passion. Both dogs and owner have that. congrat's

Folks, let's straighten the record. Molly is actually MY DOG and I once loaned her to Mike cause he just had a bunch of turd hounds. I figured he needed a touch of class so he wouldn't embarrass himself. Well, that rascal not only didn't give her back to me but he forced her to hunt for birds. Totally ruined the dog....she was my best rabbit getter. Darnit! It's so bad he won't even let me pay for the dog food, vet bills, bird lease, etc. And I can't even pick up my own birds I shot over MY DOG--noooo, Molly gets all the fun. Sometimes life (and friends) just ain't fair...


Congratulations, Mike...I knew she'd finally succeed teaching you how to find birds.

Mike's hounds aren't "show dogs" but real honest to goodness hunting dogs. Here's Buddy and Red with a few of MY birds last year:



And a snapshot of Molly and Red along with one of Mike before he lost his razor (I think I prefer the whiskers).

Nice commitment to the dogs, pretty gun too!

Congratulations to you and your dogs Mike. Will you be entering one of those beard growing competitions in the future? I start growing mine on Halloween, and shave it off for Easter. The savings on razor blades over time may have paid for at least one gun. That is a nice gun too. Do you know what the word "Cocktrill" on the bottom of the barrels means?