King,
I agree that most of the gunners these days have no interest in vintage guns. At pushing 41 years old, I'm pretty well the youngest I've met who shoots vintage guns literally for everything. The boys I shoot with in Canada and Michigan all want camoflage, plastic, alloy, whatever is newest must be better. They continually stand amazed and slightly bewildered at me and my arsenal of ancient firearms.
One of the boys was telling me he had his grandfathers old old duck gun but he wouldn't hunt with it because it was worth too much money. When I stopped at his house one day for a viewing, he produced a worn out Model 37 Ithaca with a broken stock. I didn't have the heart to tell him the gun I'd been shooting geese with that day was worth more than his truck.
That's the common mindset I find, can't use an old gun because they might be worth some money plus they wouldn't do the job like a new one anyway. Why would you use a double barrel? It doesn't shoot three times. Why would you shoot shells that are $3 each? I can buy these Winchester X-Pert steel shells for less than $1 each. And the list goes on.....
I'm not saying the lead ban is the end of hunting, but it changes things and not for the better. As I've said, just a means to an end. They could care less about the environment, it's just a left handed way to further the agenda of the anti-hunting and anti-gun crowd.
Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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