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Originally Posted by Harry Gietler
This guy should have read ''The Shotgunners Book'' by Askins. In chapter 9,
page 80, in regards to small gauge guns, Askins says, ''The perfect shotgun is the 12ga. If, man or boy, a Gent isn't Stud enough to shoot a 12 then He should take up ping-pong.
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Askins was a writer. Like most of them he would write what would sell at the time. Just because he was famous didn't mean he wasn't human, and prone to changing whims. He contradicted himself, which reduces his credibility, IMO. I'd like to have seen his face on a dove field when I take a limit with a .410.
What he overlooked is that just because a "gent" chooses to shoot a gun other than a 12 ga. doesn't mean he can't shoot a 12 well. That is absolutely ridiculous. Remember Quigley's final statement to Marston, about the Colt revolver .......... "I said I didn't have much use for one. Didn't say I didn't know how to use it."
Amen.
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