I'm just getting back from Grouse Camp and was ready to ask how your shotgun got broken...it looked like the barrels seperated and were lying one on top of the other in the grass....but you explained in a round about fashion how you grabbed the wrong gun. I know how it is when the sleep is still in your eyes so I won't mention the abnormal way your barrels are aligned:whistle:

"Fence post", "push-pole", "Tomato stake", "Canoe paddle", "Pry bar",... many names have been applied over the decades.

We are probably not being very kind, the kind of gun in his picture is useful in that has a similiar purpose as a cross over stock, only in this case the gun was built to accomodate a shooter who has one eye over the other. :)

You're right Pete... I was too harsh.

Steve,

You seemed like such a good guy. Now I see that you have been deceiving us!!!

It is kind of like taking a beautiful woman to social occasion except that the woman is a "professional". :(

A professional? I think you should use a different analogy, I have seen him shoot :rotf:

So I joined Green Mountain Shooting Preserve today and Star and I went on our first hunt there. I hope my choice of shotgun this time bails me out of the previous picture with my dreaded “O/U”. My 1929 VH 20 Ga on a 0 frame.

Nicely done. Great pic Steve.

Maybe, my question is why to you own that "O/U",,,,,,:whistle:

Oh and the dog looks beautiful as all setters do...:)

yes better and more about the gun!!

I bet most of us on here have a few guns that aren't classic side by sides.

mills i ll fess up and say ive got several that aint classic...i enjoy all of them.... such as a stevens 16 ga double another 16 stevens 410 stevens double american arms 12 ga double bolt action stevens 410 and the list could go on...dont get me wrong i really appreciate the parkers and lc smiths i look after but the low grades came into my life first... charlie

Charlie . . . Same here. My first gun was an 870 Wingmaster. Pretty is as pretty does. Some of my Parkers aren't too pretty, even, but they perform well