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I've had to re-create this thread twice because I managed to fat-finger my keyboard somehow.....expletive deleted!!!! Don't remember this being a problem in the older system here. Going forward, when the mood strikes to write something I'll be saving in !@#$%$$$## stages (more expletives deleted). One last time.... I've never had much time for target guns for a number of reasons, the biggest being financial (to be truthful) but also because as a more non-standard shooter (southpaw and central vision) I'd found that stackbarrels don't much work for me. I also had largely come to the conclusion that clay games were the realm of softer and older folks who wouldn't (or couldn't) hunt. Fast forward to yesterday, which found me strolling along at a local club with two associates, blazing away. Now, I was the baby of the bunch by at least a few years but clearly...I'm fast on my way to becoming a codger-in-training. I'd even managed to show up with a mostly empty (only one set of barrels) in a 2- barreled gun case, In my defense, I'd had several distractions (a few Margareta's for dinner the night before, combined with a dead primary SUV 1st thing in the morning (because of an unclosed passenger door)) which does tend to disturb my inner-peace, but I digress. Instead of the small-gauge event we'd loosely planned, I ending up shooting a borrowed and monstrous Turkish 12-bore target gun w/no safety and 32-inch, ported and choke-tubed barrels. I fit me very poorly (mostly because it had been adjusted for a severely righthanded shooter) but to my surprise, I seemed to shoot it fairly well. There was a corporate event at the range that we'd been unaware of, so we were confined to the back-half of the course where all the targets were clearly....more difficult. No matter, I some how managed to solve most of those target situations with aplomb. I'd hate to have to lug this beast over hill and dale, and I'd like to think that my standard Spanish 12-bore side-lock would have served me almost as well but....the expression about "horses for courses" does seem to apply here. Is there such a thing as a "reasonable" target gun out there for us south paws? And by reasonable, I mean seriously dirt-cheap as I'm unconvinced that I'll ever get much use out of it.
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