[MarketHunter]

We're all on here because we like shooting game or clays with vintage shotguns. We're such a small part of the overall scene it's like we barely exist. About 99.9 percent of the waterfowlers I know, and I know a bunch, want their plastic automatics and the cheap steel shotshells. They're interested in hunting and killing game, with them it's the sport and not the "how" unlike with the guys who post here. When you go to Cabela's all the guys are looking at the Winchester Super X-2 or whatever is the plastic automatic of the moment. They aren't in the Gun Library looking at Parkers when they think of a new duck gun. Just the feeding of these vintage doubles as waterfowling guns is cost prohibitive, that's why it's getting hard to even find the Kent TM in the stores. Nobody is buying it anymore because it's gotten so high.

For years everybody in the US thought that if you even held a nitro powder shell next to a damascus gun it would blow up and kill everybody within a five mile radius. The British boys always got a big laugh out of us over that one. Finally folks in the US have come around due to the research done by Bell and Armbrust. Guys want to rail against the folks in the UK because one out of about 500 fowlers has some kind of old large bore shotgun that they take hunting a few times a year or that they still can shoot ducks over bait and sell them. It's all different strokes for different folks really, I'm glad I've been over there and done those things. I'm able to attempt to dispel some of the myths that have been created over the years.

You're obviously getting all wound up because I'm disagreeing with you on some of these points you're trying to make. I'm just trying to state some valid points myself not trying to wind you up. I'll leave it alone and go back to my non-posting status. Sorry I got involved really, it's just not worth the effort most of the time.