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Unread 09-20-2019, 06:43 PM   #21
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I loved shooting mine. Dynamic is a good description of how it handled and performed for me.





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My 30" gun, at 7 pounds, 2 ounces, is very dynamic. It is the ideal combination for a .410 target gun.
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This is an assumption. But these guns showed up during the early years of 4 gauge skeet, when many makers did not make “target guns” in small bore, particularly 28 and 410 bore.

With the exception of Winchester, few sxs makers were accommodating the small bore side of the sport, and certainly not the more “affordable” makers.
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K. C. Miller, Texas NSSA skeet shooter, shot an eight pound 00 frame .410 Parker in the thirties, as well as a .410 Skeeter. He broke the first 100 straight in NSSA competition. Neither company used the feat in their advertising, so it is not known which gun he was shooting. Investigation may tell us that the 100 was shot before the Parker was built.
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Front trigger / right barrel "Choke",
75% pellet count, 30" circle at 30 yards

Rear trigger / left barrel "Open",
75% pellet count, 30" circle at 20 yards

The first Skeet In / Skeet Out ?

Also, sounds a lot like the logic behind Winchesters WS2 / WS1
although a selective trigger required "Snicking" to make those true Skeet chokes.

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"Snicking"?
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At the time these skeet chokes, like Winchester's WS-1 and WS-2, were designed, it appears to me that tighter barrel was there to make these guns more useful as upland game guns. A selling point? That .014" to .016" of choke in the WS-2 barrel of a Model 21 or the left barrel of Ithaca NID skeet guns is not useful for NSSA Skeet. The way skeet was shot, at the time these guns were designed, one went all the way around the field shooting singles at each station loading one shell at a time --

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Then the squad went back to stations one, two, six & seven to shoot doubles --

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and anyone who was straight normally shot their option bird at station seven.

Those folks shooting a pump or auto with WS-1 or SKEET choke or that spreader tube in a Cutts were at a distinct advantage over those saddled with that tight choke second barrel.
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Early skeet was a much slower game than it is today. Shooters would follow the outgoing bird past the stake and shoot it at 25 to 30 yards, explaining the use of the skeet 2 choke.. Today, competitive shooters shoot the outgoer before or at the center stake, 21 yards or less, the incomer even closer.
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In the sxs Skeet guns of the day, the outgoer was the first target and shot with the Skeet 1 choke which was normally the right barrel... reversed chokes so to speak, on theese guns.





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"Snicking"?
"Snick" is the sound ofttimes heard when activating a safety or selecting a barrel with a single selector trigger.
Hence the referred to action, "Snicking".
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