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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
I have no interest in handguns, don't shoot them and don't own any. Well that's not entirely correct. I do have my Grandfather's 1916 DWM Luger, my late (Viet Nam 1967) wfriend Captain Boyd's 1903 Colt USMA graduation award gun, a Sig 225, my H&R dog training gun, Linda's 5 screw Combat Masterpiece, a couple of model 17s, and my old Highway Patrolman. There is a little Beretta .32 in the safe somewhere. There may be one or two more, but not any that interest me. I'm just not a handgun kind of guy.
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I like pistols because I shoot them pretty well and over the more than half century of my collecting I've gathered quite a few. When I was buying a lot of guns my proclivities would change from .22's to milspec to shotguns and back again.
I have been shooting skeet weekly, usually three rounds and I am not doing as well as I'd like. My shooting buddie breaks almost all of them always and without batting an eye. I'm working on trap now which gives me an opportunity to shoot my Parker which I enjoy.
In addition, I find the new, post 1952 shoulder mount, pandering to high scores. When young, we all used the low mount which resulted in lower scores and I think a greater challenge. We shot trap to practice for hunting. Breaking 25 with the high mount and breaking 25 from the low, are two very different things. However if people like the high mount that's their biz, it is no skin off my nose.
I also think that the European game is better than ours, because it is more difficult due to their low mount, faster birds and delayed launch. Why don't we do that too? It is because it is too hard? That doesn't sound like the American way to me. Okay, I am getting old and slow and crotchetty and how we shoot will remain unchanged no matter what my opinion is...just say'n.