Edgar is right. There is nothing dangerous about the 97 if you know how to operate a shotgun.

My '87 1 Frame Fishtail will likely get "the nod" this week. I keep encountering birds in the same spot on two different trails here where my more open-choked English 16 isn't up to the task at hand.

By the time I locate these birds, they are on the move and almost at the limit of that gun's lethal range. Tighter chokes and bigger payloads should help with that just a bit (hopefully it's enough to make the difference). The ground on both approaches is fairly even, with no obstacles to step over or to trip me up, so I can (with some confidence) approach both points with the gun up and the hammers cocked.

http://i.imgur.com/A4lnYVKh.jpg

It will be an interesting adventure to set out with this old American gun in hand, and it will make me wonder when it last (or ever) was used in this fashion?

That’s very pretty country Lloyd, it looks like my covers in Vermont’s NEK.





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Good day here.

http://i.imgur.com/92jsqW6h.jpg

Sharpies!

and a Ruffie later too!

http://i.imgur.com/3bPHdq3h.jpg

Some days it all comes together, eh?

Dean:

This is gorgeous country in the Fall of the year...

http://i.imgur.com/2Njgn9zh.jpg

but winters here are abysmal.

http://i.imgur.com/ezOdN29h.png

I clear out well-before that point.

Thanks folks for your postings. How nice of you-all. I ended up purchasing a WC Scott 12 hammer gun from a gent in Georgia. Damascus barrels, pretty wood. Better then good. I have yet to shoot the gun, but I plan to use it hunting and my hunting buddy moved away!
No safety, so the hammers are the safety which is logical. Now I'm looking for another Parker...a hammer gun?!

I have hunted deer in November in the NEK in hip-deep snow in my youth. But that was a half-century or more ago.





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