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Starting with a .410, just not sure which one. Then switching to my late 1800s Brummie Lacey hammer 12 with ChamberMates, shooting old Gamebore 20ga 2-1/2" black powder shells. Just found the ChamberMates and they seem to drop right into the short chambers on the Lacey. Surprised me.
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Our season doesn't start until the 8th, but I will be somewhere after them. Planning to use the 425 with the ugly rib on it, unless I like the new gun better.
The day after I ordered the rib and decided to really fix the 425 so it would fit me, I found a DT 625 with 28" barrels, and it was cheap. So cheap it scared me. Pics look ok; gonna pick it up today. I have been looking for one like this for years.
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...I found a DT 625 with 28" barrels... Never knew or heard of Browning making a 625, or any of the Citori-based o/u's, with double triggers. JR
Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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Couldn't find a shoot for the 1st but will be there Labor Day. Usually shoot one of my 12 ga. hammer guns but this year want to try a Browning Mod. 42. See if that .410 works. I have had the 42 over a year and haven't shot anything with it except a few clays.
Dennis
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How about a wager, Geo?
$10 a shell, for every shell I shoot with my "toy gun", above the number you shoot with your 12, that is required for each of us to take a limit... SRH No...Geo
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A smart move Geo. Those shooting farmers can be tough to keep up with. I use to host a dove shoot where people put up 50 dollars each to see who could harvest 12 Dove, the legal limit back then, using the fewest shells. Money was split half to the winner and half to the farmer who tended our field. Also had a Lewis purse. Best I ever did was 15 shells for 12 birds. Most years the winning score was 12-13. Couple fellows figured out that if the could kill two birds with one shell they gained a huge advantage. The few times I did that myself I promptly missed another bird. Everyone watched the other fellow and we never had any problems. You could only enter the field with one box of shells. If you needed more you knew and everybody else knew you were shooting your second box. Just about every year the fellow who won was a farmer.
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I think I bet Stan he could not shoot a limit opening day one year back when he first got on to this .410 kick of his. I even specified he couldn't shoot a water hole or a roost. I lost that bet.
I don't know how good Stan really is, but I am completely aware of how terrible I can shoot. I have the shell bills from Argentina to prove it. That's why I shoot a 12ga!...Geo
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I think I bet Stan he could not shoot a limit opening day one year back when he first got on to this .410 kick of his. I even specified he couldn't shoot a water hole or a roost. I lost that bet.
I don't know how good Stan really is, but I am completely aware of how terrible I can shoot. I have the shell bills from Argentina to prove it. That's why I shoot a 12ga!...Geo All in fun, Geo. Secretly, I was a bit relieved when you said "No". I got to thinking about it and was afraid I had let my bulldog mouth overload my hummingbird ---. Gil has seen me shoot .................... and miss, and miss, and miss, ad nauseam. SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Miss, miss and what Stan? Come on. We know most people who select .410 are not doing it because they have a flinching problem like I did. They do so because bigger bore are, well boring at their skill level. You only lack the YouTube video. The rest of us keep the shell makers in high profit levels.
On my new bucket list is to shoot a limit of Dove with the 20 percussion double I just bought. After that I hope to take shooting lesions, from a GA farmer. Perhaps we can shoot your new custom made .410 and Ill shoot my 42. Ought to be fun for all. Ill buy the shells.
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I'll admit I did start shooting doubles almost exclusively about 25 years ago because of boredom making the limits come too fast with the jam-o-matics. Lucky for me I guess I haven't ever reached the point of 12ga boredom...Geo
I think I'm safe now because I've reached the age where I'm not getting better at anything at all
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 08/23/18 07:49 PM. Reason: added final sentence
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