A nine lb. Full & Full skeet gun?
Sounds a bit like our mutual gunning hero- T. Nash Buckingham- in his "Are we shooting 8 gauge guns- he recalls a 1928 "Baptism to the Wm. H. Foster clays sport" at the Campfire Club in NY with Colonel Harold P. Sheldon and Captain Paul Curtis- to shoot 98 out of 100 with a "cannon" like Bo Whoop- 32" Full and Full Burt Becker/Fox/Sweeney 12 bore-
Never have been a clays man, prefer live birds, especially pigeons. Years ago when I acquired a "Non-Parker Trap Gun" so to speak, we would use such tightly choked shotguns for a game we called "Full Choke Skeet"- everything was "Jake" until the middle peg, as Nash even said "Such an incoming shot in the quail field would be foolish- you would pulp the bird and make it unfit for the table" or words to that effect. I might have averaged 20-21 at that "altered" skeet game in my way younger days. not now for sure.
Last edited by Francis Morin; 07-13-2009 at 04:23 PM..
Reason: Correct Col. Whelan to Sheldon "Full Birds?""
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