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I got all you wanna bees beat
...I started with a bb gun.
Killed more chit than Audubon.
Same here jO...I received a Daisy pump action for Christmas (must have been 6 or 7 years old) and left it a little to close our gas heating stove. Woke up the next morning to some find I had some serious cast off to the plastic stock! I caught a lot if hell for killing birds and shooting the neighbors cats and chickens. Shooting wooden matches was entertaining and got me a butt whipping too. My favorite quick load technique was to dump a pack of BB's in my mouth and spew (spit) into the loading port!!!! Of course I always maintained the bore with a copious quantity of 3in1 oil that made a nice smoke when fired.
Last edited by Ken Nelson; 01/28/19 11:09 AM.
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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The air compression on one of those old Daisy's would actually give a diesel effect & ignite the oil giving just a bit more velocity to the BB.
Miller/TN
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Friend of mine growing up would dump a package of BBs in his mouth and spit'em into the gun to load. His gun was bad rusty. We figured he go so many of the squirrels we hunted because his spit was poison...Geo
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A new Browning or Italian o/u is a much better value than any a new sxs option at a similar price point. Why would anyone buy a Turkish sxs when you can get a citori for the same price?
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Yep Canvasback been to Delta several times in the '60's and '70's and hunted divers in lakes to the north including Dog, St. George, and St. Andrews. Also The Narrows and Oak Point on Lake Manitoba itself. I suppose carp have ruined both of those spots also. Greater Scaup used to be regular visitors at the latter. Minnesota DNR tried killing the rough fish and barring their entry into Lake Cristina, once one of the state's premier Canvasback lakes, but I have not heard much about the project for years.
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A new Browning or Italian o/u is a much better value than any a new sxs option at a similar price point. Why would anyone buy a Turkish sxs when you can get a citori for the same price? Because some folks like their barrels SxS & not up & down, its called personal taste.
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some of us shoot better with an over and under, but love the look and feel of classic pre war like sxs's...
Last edited by ed good; 01/28/19 05:15 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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I’m suggesting the sxs might be more popular if consumers could purchase a decent new sxs for $2000. That’s not possible. One's never sure what they are getting with a Turkey gun and who wants to buy a gun that may need to be “fixed” right out of the box? Likewise, what current production $2,000 sxs will hold up to high volume clay shooting?
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Not sure my money would be on a Citori holding up to that, either.
Best,
Ted
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ryan, i hear ya...turkish guns have come a long way in the past few years...now its pretty much, you get what you pay for, with dickinson brand guns being the top of their kind...
as for the durability of new guns, that too is a function of cost...people like blaser and beretta make o/u guns for high volume target shooting...those target guns are priced much higher than $2000...and included with the extra cost are service and repair facilities...
the best sxs target grade gun in the $2000 price range is the browning bss, not made since the eighties...
others with more experience than i might want to confirm or add to what i post above...
Last edited by ed good; 01/28/19 07:07 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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