Let's just say I'm a 50% shooter at SC, Joe. That means 26X50 and maybe 53X100. Oddly, I have done better scorewise with a damascus Lefever and 7/8 oz but that was at Millbrook and maybe a higher % of skeety crossers and no so many floaters there. Apparently I can shoot that stupid teal directly overhead but not at forty yrds as I didn't hit a one of them. Blowing that short ramp off the Flues didn't help my concentration a bit. Check out p. 317 of Walt S.'s Ithaca Gun Co. From the Beginning for pictures of the swamped rib Flues barrels. Walt refers to the "ramps" at muzzle and breech as "nubbins of a rib" but of course the barrels do have an upper rib which is continuous and the "nubbins" are applied over it. Oddly the upper photo suggests to me that the gun shown may also have lost the rear bit as all I see is the rib extension. Anyway, both of these "ramps" are shaped to the concavity between barrels, file-cut matted on top; the rear piece notches around the extension and soldered in place. Very similar to the treatment on my Charlin. I found the piece over the rail in the swampy pond-edge on sta. 1. Had to backtrack as I did not notice it go missing immediately.
There was a four-man (100$ entry) shoot at a R/C airplane. My wife saw it; I didn't. All I saw was 175% prices and a dustbowl in the making.
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