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Destry, that's like my oft-used quip "Jack Daniels goes well with anything"
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08-15-2009, 11:14 AM | #24 | ||||||
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Desrty,
That's an awful long gun. With the barrel being so long it surely won't fit in the sink boat and you will have to find a field with corn about 8 ft tall. If not the geese will see you from a mile away. |
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Destry, your new gun is a piece of work. For your information, it does not seem to be a Model 1900 H&R. The sculpting of the receiver and the pin placement are nothing like my 10 gauge 3 1/2" Model 1900. My gun is not happy being shot with 3 1/2" shells. I tricked a fellow into firing a few one time and the gun came open on every shot. The gun is about new, so it isn't worn. One of the gun houses sold a bunch of these old H&Rs back in the fifties or sixties advertised as ten gauge magnums. They were probably bought from H&R when they discontinued ten gauges and bored them out for long shells. My gun is nice, but only for 2 7/8" shells. The barrel is extremely thick, but the locking bolt is not up to the job.
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08-15-2009, 08:35 PM | #26 | ||||||
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Bill,
A friend had a later model of that same gun when we were growing up, used it to pass shooting geese off the railroad track that border the refuge. You could shoot the long shells through it but it was pure punishment. The gun seemed heavy but it wasn't heavy enough. The barrel walls were so thick I think you could have bored it out to 8 gauge. Destry
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I saw one of those long barrel things driven in the ground with an insulator attached and was being use as a electric fence post. The action still worked.JVB
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08-16-2009, 11:25 AM | #28 | ||||||
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I'm already looking for another one......
DLH
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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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i also quit shooting parkers
read destrys line and decided to buy me one of them there guns that will killem as long as you can seem . got on sold usa and found one of them there guns know that it was for me cause it said goose gun in the riteup bout it.i bid high were that destry wouldnt get interested you know what igot a call from them there people said i had bought that there goose killer.wooie was i excited. got that there goose killing machine home yesterday them folks at ups brought it all most to my door. when i seen how long that package was i says to my self ive bought the goose killer that every hunter dreams of. it took me 30 minutes to cut my way through all of that there tape and paper . i can tell you folks that them there people at sold usa can sure wrap a package there wrapings are sure something.when i pulled thatthat long slender fine long barreled gun out of the box my old eyes liked to have went out. never had i seen such a goose killer as this before. now igot me one of them there destry specials . not all of the story yet but about bed time here .good hunting to nite all you possum hunters. ha charlie
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