Heavy Duck gun on a clays course

[Cold Spring]

Pre-spring fever, after some bad weather my gang got out yesterday to shoot sporting clays. I had the M-12 Heavy Duck, 32-inch solid rib gun that's shown in the first post. We had 6 in the squad, all competition clays guns except for the HD. She's not quite a sporting clays gun at about 8-3/4 pounds and with Full choke but she finished in second place, only 3 ex 100 birds behind the top shooter Allen with his Browning over/under. Here's a couple of pics while on the course. Lots of fun shooting these vintage pump guns! This one was made pre-war and she cranked out 100 shots without a hiccup. Actually one of our guys broke a hammer on his Beretta gas gun and had to put in his spare trigger group. No need to carry spare parts with the Winny M-12. Ha.