Mac - I see your from the Ozarks. Its been 40 years since I visited there. Beautiful place to visit. It must be nice to live there.
Tell me, is that farmer sill driving around on State Highway 21? You know the guy. Drives a '64 Dodge pickup pulling a hay trailer 25 MPH below the speed limit?
You get to see some beautiful country driving behind him.
Macar;
Can you recommend someone that can open up the chokes on my old gun. I talked to a guy a long time ago, and he said he would not work on such an old gun for fear of damaging it.
Mike is in MA next doorThanks, I will check out Mike Orlen. BTW, I am in the un-constitutional state of CT
I'm sorry to say I have only on SxS shotgun, a Pedersoli Black Powder 12.
Had a lot of fun with it last fall, this was the day before Christmas.
Walked about 200 yards and had three roosters. If I had the double triggers mastered I'd have had my birds in the first 100 yards.
Edit, These days I guess I have to mention, they are wild birds. Never shot a raised bird other than fliers when training dogs.
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Will the chambers on that Sterlingworth accommodate 2-3/4" shells? Those old timers were often chambered for 2-5/8"To keep my post on topic, I hunted last year with a Fox Model B in 16 Gauge. This year I'm preparing to hunt with a Fox Sterlingworth in 12 Gauge. We'll see how that goes.
Thanks, I will check out Mike Orlen. BTW, I am in the un-constitutional state of CT
Will the chambers on that Sterlingworth accommodate 2-3/4" shells? Those old timers were often chambered for 2-5/8"
I didn't have enough room to give credit to Hunter S. Thompson.....Thank you George.
I love your tag line.
Sure do! I hunt turkeys with. Stevens 312 12 gauge. Some guys comment that I am using ancient technology and I ask them how many turkeys they have shot in a given year. When they hear that I got 5 to 7 they have more respect for the old double barrel.
Yep. Sometimes for just the heck of it, sometimes because there's a dress code in invitational hunts, specifying SxS sidelock, boxlock acceptable. In hunts like those you can take photos that look like straight from 1800's if you use sepia filter in your camera. Maybe it's an european thing...Anyone really do any hunting with the double barrel any more?
Can you recommend someone that can open up the chokes on my old gun.
Buy a new gun-it makes more sense economically.
i have a new 308 mauser barrel that's like 19'', the chamber was buggered up. any thing to clean up the chamber is not the best with only 19'' and don't want it in a mauser anyway. i was thing of making a chamber insert for a sxs. i am on the look out for a newer sxs all mine are old. i thing i could do 7.62x39, 3030 would be easy tho. .I just remembered a good hunting with SxS story. It makes me look a bit of a buffoon but, well, that's because I was.
Years and years ago, getting on for 30, I had a Spanish made Sears 20 ga SxS. No idea who the maker was, that sort of thing didn't occur to me at the time. It was a double trigger box lock, beaver forend and pistol grip (uggggh). But it was a decent grouse gun and not too heavy. I can't recall how, but I got a rifled tube, like 6-8" , chambered for 30-30 that hammered into the barrel with a couple of big rubber O rings to locate it inside the barrel. No ejector, just a little cut out that you could get a pen knife in to lift the spent cartridge out.
So I went out grouse hunting in the deer season overlap, having shot the 30-30 insert all of about three times at 50 yards. I don't recall whether I got any grouse but late afternoon after putting my dog up, I went for a wander down the brook to a good game trail and, sure enough, there was a great southern Vermont whitetail buck - meaning an anorexic 2x2 on meth - at certainly less than 50 yards. I lined up from behind a stone wall, using the very effective shotgun bead, fired and....nothing. Didn't hit the tweaker, and other than being startled, he just went rigid and didn't move. I dropped behind the stone wall, fumbled with a jacknife to get the spent 30-30 case out, dug another one out, loaded it, and closed the gun. I peaked over the wall expecting Breaking Bad to be gone, or dead of old age at this point. But no, there he was: rooted, rigid, and ready for another go. I lined up extra careful, pulled the trigger, and...nada.
Well, second go, the buck sees me. And slack-jawed in amazement, he sort of snorts derisively, turns and ambles (ambled I say, not ran) off with evident disdain.
I paced it out and it was more like 70 yards. I looked and looked hoping for some sign of a tree strike to show where POI was relative to the deer. Nothing whatsoever.
Needless perhaps to say, the 30-30 tube never came out again. Gave the shotgun to a cousin a few years later. No idea what became of the 30-30 tube...