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What joy, what joy to be out with the one you love  Thank you for the posting Mike
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Sounds wonderful. Nice photos, nice area and that's a large cottontail.
It was 14 degrees on our friend's farm in MO today and we didn't see any squirrels during my first hunt with the new 28 gauge. Yes squirrels deserve a .22 but the farmer has cattle and requested scatterguns to be used. It was just nice to be out with my dad is a 4x cancer survivor. He introduced me to hunting 40 years ago and I'm still jazzed to have a day in the field with him.
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Nice rabbit, great gun. Where were you that it was so warm?
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I'm in Pennsylvania...
I noticed later that one of the Gamebore shells had a pierced primer. Are these shells known for having thin primers, or are the firing pins possibly protruding too far? Should I try a different brand of 2.5" shell (RST or Polywad) or is this a more serious concern that should be looked at by a smith?
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Congrats on making the leap and getting a rabbit! The only rabbits I've flushed this year have been in grouse or woodcock cover. Not much time to shoot with a young unsteady cocker in hot pursuit. So far I haven't even shouldered the gun on one. Woodcock closed here on Christmas Day. Just in time for the hard freeze up north to send the last holdouts moving south.
One pierced primer from just a handful of shots is a pretty high failure rate. You've laid out the options: try shooting some more--with the same or different shells--and see if the one failure was a random abberation or get it to a pro right away for a check up. I tend to send guns in for inspection shortly after receiving them--I've made a couple expensive mistakes by not doing so. I don't know that you'd run a terrible risk in shooting it a bit, but if there were any more indication that something was off, I'd pack it off to someone who knows hammer doubles.
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When I hunt one of my hammer guns, I chant a mantra...Hammmers, dummy, hammers...
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Interesting Husqvarna, first one I see with bar action locks. On all the Husqs I examined the internal lock work was top class.
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oh wow. that's a nice rabit you've got and that's surely a gorgeous gun. i never hunted with such a beauty but i surely would want to. congrats and keep goin'! You'll need also good tires like https://neotires.com/armstrong-tires to gap the rabits, haha
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