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Season's almost upon us, I flushed a couple dove today at work, here in downtown B-More. So what are you using for the opener. If I get to go, still up in the air, I'll use the SKB 600. It's a 20 gauge O/U, nimble but not twitchy and a good performer in days past. Choked M/F, it's more...

Beretta wants their shotgun back, so this is a good time to end this. For those coming in late, here's the deal. Out of the blue, Beretta USA contacted me last fall and asked if I would try out one of their A400 Xtreme semis and report on same. You can guess my answer. I'm promiscious...

When my friend Al found out I was THAT Dave McCracken, he wanted me to teach his whole family to shoot shotguns. I did, him, his wife, all three sons but not the daughter and even a cousin. Al and I work in the same place, he's up on Mahogany Row and I'm the receptionist...

I have great friends, and some let me play with their toys.... There's two American made O/Us here and now. The Kolar is a mission specific target gun, oft weighs in excess of 9 lbs and is made to last for hundreds of thousands of shots. There's a lot of happy Kolar owners out...

After 20 years of working in some of MD's roughest sleep over camps for the morally challenged, I retired from the Dept of Correction in Jan 98. I kept in touch with some folks, but most have died off or moved on. Mostly,though, I left that part behind, and a happier man never left Jessup...

I work second shift, so mornings are mine, not the company's. The weather, the honeydo list and my aches and pains were all amenable today, so off to PGC gamboled I. The plan was to shoot a couple fast rounds of wobble. On arrival at the Wobble trap on Range 4, I noticed one other shooter.A...

You may recall a couple months back that I wrote about Federal's pink shells. A 1 1/8 oz load, Pinks have the velocity reduced to 1150 FPS, making them a light kicker.These have a portion of their cost going to breast cancer research. A worthy cause. I bought a few cases and ran them through...

I'm not good at keeping New Year's Resolutions. I'm still overweight and under exercised, it took way too long to give up cigarettes and I haven't finished writing either book. Still, one resolution I've made and kept for a very long time. And this is to pass on what I know to new...

Shotgun Acquisition Disorder strikes here in America every day. Heck, it strikes ME that often. It's the feeling that even when the second safe is getting crowded, there's just one more _____ you need. Of course, need and want are synonyms here. It can look a little excessive to...

I had planned to shoot some SC yesterday at the range, but all the golf carts were tied up, so I headed for the wobble range. There, I started shooting a round with a few others, then another. On the second round, I noted the man next to me had an antique Model 97. No blue left, worn...

Anyone have these? Recently I shot a round of Sporting Clays with a nice young guy named Chris Ford, who beat me like a rug. In the course of this drubbing, Chris showed me a set of chokes for his Krieghoff made by Muller. I had seen something about them on the Net. Made of ceramics...

I was at the Wobble trap at PGC yesterday getting ready to coach some farily new shotgunners. Besides the three with me, there was a fair number of other people waiting their turn. One of these walked up holding his Mossberg pump. The good news.The action was open, the muzzle pointed...

Out of the blue, Beretta contacted me a while back and asked me to conduct "a fair and impartial" test of their new waterfowler, the A400 Xtreme Unico. It's,according to their flack sheet, capable of functioning with 7/8 oz, 2 3/4" loads up to 2 oz, 3.5" Howitzer shells. I picked it up...

I was pulling for some guys at the Wobble Trap at PGC when THR Member Nickelplate showed up with his problematical 870. For those coming in late, I've been reporting for a couple years I haven't run across those clunker, junky 870 Expresses the Net is full of stories about the ones that will...

What can you tell me about this shotgun? Any problems, tips, suggestions? Thanks...

As you may know, the Net is full of stuff about 870 Expresses not being very good shotguns, according to a small but extremely vocal minority. I've publicly wondered where these are. I've handled and shot maybe 35 or 40 Expresses in the last couple years belonging to other folks without one...

I've been through one war, three prison riots and a couple Boy/Girl Scout camping trips. I've been described as looking like someone Tony Soprano knows on a professional basis. I did break someone's arm once. On purpose. Even at 64, you probably do not want to arm wrestle me. One...

The dog gave enough warning for you to get the kids into your bedroom and the shotgun out. Behind you, your spouse is calling 911 on the cell phone and holding a revolver. You're covering the top of the stairs as heavy boots clump towards the top floor..... What your shotgun is loaded with...

It was almost too hot to shoot this morning, but there I was at PGC to get in a couple rounds of wobble before work. So were two guys who had never shot Wobble or indeed much clays but had some hunting behind them. Not as ancient as me, but not kids. Since they were green as heck, I...

We all get into routines, doing the same things over and over. It applies to me and shooting these days. Even the clays course at PGC has settled into the same old, same old. So when W/W decided she needed to attend something in central PA, I bought along a case of reloads and the...