Grouse guns

[C.O.B.]

Mills if you have lost count of the new ones then your on the right track my friend I haven't bought a shotgun in quite a while. I'd like a 410 hammer gun preferably with 30 inch barrels and an open choked 20 hammer gun as my Boss is pretty tightly choked. I am however working on yet another rifle on a single shot Winchester High Wall action. I'll be picking out the stock blank today.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Mills if you have lost count of the new ones then your on the right track my friend I haven't bought a shotgun in quite a while. I'd like a 410 hammer gun preferably with 30 inch barrels and an open choked 20 hammer gun as my Boss is pretty tightly choked. I am however working on yet another rifle on a single shot Winchester High Wall action. I'll be picking out the stock blank today.

I am not buying any more right now and enjoying the new ones. I am thinking about getting some Spanish guns next. AyA and Arrieta 28 and 410s maybe. Also want to add to the rifle collection which is basically one right now.

[Ron Scott]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

I'd like a 410 hammer gun preferably with 30 inch barrels and an open choked 20 hammer gun as my Boss is pretty tightly choked.

A friend of mine just bought a Parker hammer gun -- his first. We shot some black powder loads out of it on the skeet field. It was a lot of fun. We got to talking about hunting with a hammer gun. I assume you carry them with hammer's uncocked and when a bird flushes you cock and shoot one barrel at a time. Is that right? Or is it possible to cock bother barrels as you bring up the gun?

[StubTwist]

Originally Posted by Ronald Scott

A friend of mine just bought a Parker hammer gun -- his first. We shot some black powder loads out of it on the skeet field. It was a lot of fun. We got to talking about hunting with a hammer gun. I assume you carry them with hammer's uncocked and when a bird flushes you cock and shoot one barrel at a time. Is that right? Or is it possible to cock bother barrels as you bring up the gun?

I'm sure it takes a lot of practice.

I witnessed this only once. New Years Shoot in NH years ago. Austin Hogan did this with his hammer gun. Skeet station eight. Called for a double, low house first and overhead from high house. Hammer gun uncocked, mounted low gun. Called pull, cocked both hammers and he smashed them both.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

I'm sure it takes a lot of practice.

I witnessed this only once. New Years Shoot in NH years ago. Austin Hogan did this with his hammer gun. Skeet station eight. Called for a double, low house first and overhead from high house. Hammer gun uncocked, mounted low gun. Called pull, cocked both hammers and he smashed them both.

I’ll have to check the mainspring tension on the locks of the gun he was shooting that day. As I recall it was the 2-frame Grade 0 twelve gauge with the Vulcan Steel barrels.
Austin left that gun to the PGCA and dubbed it the “Editors Gun” and I will pass it along to the next editor of Parker Pages. It is a really nice shooting gun.

I have never been able to cock my hammers on the rise of a flushing bird or clay in time to get off a decent shot... hence my reasoning in having both hammers cocked and the action open while hunting. I think it’s a bit unsafe to be quickly trying to cock hammers against stubborn mainsprings.... What happens when you mess up ? And all that unnecessary cocking and releasing the hammers again and again on barrels remaining unfired is, in my mind, just asking for a slip up.





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