In my early days afield I've often experienced dove shoots where the doves where so intent on using the field that it was impossible to keep a gun loaded; the action was best described as load and shoot, load and shoot. The barrels of my double gun would become blistering hot from shooting 700X reloads; they would be impossibly hot to touch, and I'd find myself carefully holding the barrels with two fingers on the splinter (didn't know what a shooting glove was in those days). And although I never experienced any heat related loose rib or barrel issues, I did have the stock on an old Stevens double splinter while dove shooting one Saturday afternoon. But the birds were flying too well to leave the field, so I kept shooting; and the splinters kept flying until the stock eventually fell off the gun. Wish I'd had some duct tape in my dove stool that day!
