And if you can kill a duck with it, it's a duck gun.
And if you can kill a pheasant with it, it's a pheasant gun.
And if you can kill a goose with it, it's a goose gun.
I thought we were talking about "live bird guns"?
My point was that the label "live bird gun" is a misnomer in so many cases. A 'pigeon gun' or a 'trap gun' or an 'inanimate target gun' or a 'clays gun' in those cases when describing a particular gun would be far better descriptions of what the gun was intended for.
I've seen twenty-six inch 20 gauge and 16 gauge guns described as "live bird guns" for the simple reason that they were ordered without a safety.
I know - it's a matter of semantics and it becomes like splitting hairs, but "live bird gun" is so often a misnomer.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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