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09-09-2019, 11:10 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Destry,
Your Lefever Nitro Special 16 has served you well. Keep that trend going. And if I may intrude on your thread which speaks of long service to guns we've owned, shown below is My 12 gauge early A grade Fox, SN 7983, that I purchased 51 years ago this month from Glen Appleby of Galeton PA for $175.00. I haven't hunted with it since non toxic shot was required for ducks and geese back many years ago but it still sees a lot of shooting. I shot it yesterday at sporting clays and I average about 2,500 to 3,000 rounds thru it each year. The old girl still locks up tight and closes like a bank vault. Hoping to get another 50 years out of the old girl. She's my favorite. |
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09-10-2019, 05:46 AM | #4 | ||||||
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Nothing looks better than a sxs with decades of honest hunting patina .
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09-10-2019, 06:40 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Good shooting Destry! I've had a few Scotch Doubles on dove and they were a pure luck shots. I was thrilled each time it happened. I would have given anything to have seen the expression on your face when two squirrels fell. I have a friend in Freeburg, Illinois who marinates his squirt in 7UP before frying them. Whats your favorite recipe?
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09-10-2019, 10:16 AM | #6 | ||||||
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Got you beat by a bit, Jolly. Bought "Meat in the Pot" in the summer of 1966 from Chet Paulson in Tacoma. Been my go to bird gun ever since --
21460 12-ga A-Grade right cropped.jpg Actually have had my Super-Fox three years longer, but I haven't been waterfowl hunting since 2004, and haven't used the Super-Fox since 2003. Super-Fox Opening Day 1977.jpg It is still ready though. |
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09-10-2019, 10:25 AM | #7 | ||||||
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OK; first double guns...Stevens 5100 16ga (I've been told that 5100 is not really a model number, but since many folks call them that I'll go with it). Bought it at a flea market maybe 30 years ago; best $210 I ever spent and it started me down a very interesting road! Stevens guns take a lot of crap but I once took a limit of four fat prairie roosters with four shells from this (2x4, fence post, pig on a shovel; take your pick) and you can't ask much more of a gun than that. Still going strong, and I sometimes think I still shoot it better than any of 'em…
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09-10-2019, 11:30 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Had some use on it but still looked to be in good shape . |
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09-10-2019, 12:27 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Destroy seeing your pic brought back a lot of memories. I was taught to hunt on squirrels using a topper jr. 410. Seems like hardly anybody hunts them anymore.
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09-10-2019, 01:27 PM | #10 | ||||||
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[QUOTE=Dave Noreen;281153]Got you beat by a bit, Jolly. Bought "Meat in the Pot" in the summer of 1966 from Chet Paulson in Tacoma. Been my go to bird gun ever since --
Yikes! My allowance in 1966 was $.50/week. (BTW, what a wonderful gun!)
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