recent gun sales

[Phil Yearout]

Maybe if somebody did a shooting movie that did for shotgunning what A River Runs Through It did for fly fishing, the millennials (or whoever they are) would get into it.

[Pa. Parker Pal]

Phil , God help us if they ever made a film about vintage double guns similar to "A River Runs Through It", there would never be enough hunting land and good doubles to go around (just joking), but as a serious fly fisherman thats exactly what happened. I agree with most of the other posts as at my local range most of the younger shooters favor "Black" rifles and shotguns.

[Jack Kuzepski]

This is a little off topic,but... Back about 10 years ago, I worked at a high end retirement community in northern Delaware and was in my mid 50's. There was several very pretty girls (late 20's to mid 30's) that worked in food services that hung around together. One day I went to the kitchen to get a coffee and heard them talking about trap and skeet shooting. It peaked my interest so I just stood there to hear what they had to say when one of the girls said "Jack, you used to shoot at Dupont Fish and Game didn't you?" I confirmed that I did, mostly skeet: then she told the other girls that I shot mostly side by side shotguns. So I asked how she knew that. She told me who her grandfather was (a good friend of mine) and he got her a job on weekends at the club taking money for rounds of trap and skeet, selling shells, shot etc.; there were several employee's children that had jobs down there. She then told the girls that my nickname was "Elmer Fudd". I then blurted "Why did you give me that name?" it was the first I had heard of it. She said I was one of the only guy to show up regularly with a side by side shotgun and the only other individual they ever saw with one was Elmer on TV. That really made me laugh. At the time Remington was a wholly owned company by Dupont. All the ammo was Remington and the loaner guns were 1100's and 870's in every gauge.

Jack Kuzepski

[Big D]

Jack - Was that the club near Newark? I learned to shoot there, and shot my first skeet straight there (the day after returning from a year in Korea in 1969)

[Jack Kuzepski]

John,

Yes it was. You probably remember the log cabin club house. Years later they made a new club house about 4-5 times that size and updated the trap and skeet fields. It was really nice. It also helped that Dick Heckert was CEO at the time, as he was quite a skeet shooter himself as well as a hunter.

Jack Kuzepski

[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by nick balzano

Phil , God help us if they ever made a film about vintage double guns similar to "A River Runs Through It", there would never be enough hunting land and good doubles to go around (just joking), but as a serious fly fisherman thats exactly what happened.

Nick, I agree. Kinda hope they never do.