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Well, I get around the slower loading/firing cycle by not caring about it.
I load in my own time, shoot the birds that please me and have a good time. Actually, I'm pretty quick with the old under-lever - though the non-rebound locks are an added handicap.
I have shot 300 bird days with an under-lever hammer gun. I don't remember them being any less fun than the ones I shot with a Purdey sidelock ejector.
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Well . . . back during WWII, some US Marines were unhappy to change from the old bolt-action Springfield to the M-1 Garand. To each his own, I guess.
Dig, for the Yanks that don't understand a "300 bird day", probably good to let them know that that's a day in which a line of shooters ("guns") bags 300 birds, collectively. Probably over the course of about 5 separate drives.
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Thanks - good idea.
I had some American friends here last year for driven bird shooting. It snowed so hard you couldn't see them!
I now have some more visiting between next week and mid December - guess what the forecast is !!
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I'll be shooting in Scotland in early Dec, Dig. If I had to choose, I'd take snow over rain.
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Thanks - good idea.
I had some American friends here last year for driven bird shooting. It snowed so hard you couldn't see them!
I now have some more visiting between next week and mid December - guess what the forecast is !! Dig, maybe you could ask your American friends to bring their flourescent orange jackets this trip. It would help in being able to see them in the snow...Geo
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I generally find the Americans are easy to spot because they are dressed head to to in brand new matching tweeds!
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I generally find the Americans are easy to spot because they are dressed head to to in brand new matching tweeds! Think I just got put in my place; and rightfully so...Geo
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Dig
Was just talking about you the other day when a pheasant got bumped by the dog and came at us just like a driven bird. I dropped it on the second shot with my lovely Bayard Original Diana 16 which I got from you last year. Love it as it compliments my slightly older 28 ga. Original Diana. No 300 bird days around here, however....
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I generally find the Americans are easy to spot because they are dressed head to to in brand new matching tweeds! Being a "lower rent" American, I usually wear my LL Bean Goretex-lined hunting coat; sometimes breeks, sometimes Goretex hunting pants, also from Bean. But the Bean stuff is green rather than orange, so I more or less fit in. And I do have a grouse helmet.
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