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[Stepmac]

Originally Posted by Mark Vollinger

Todd:
If you want to improve the shooting dimensions of the gun and realize it may carry risk to value and the wood..... You may evaluate having a gun fit and a stock bend.

I worked with Dale Tate in Nor Cal. He bent the stock from 3 1/4" DAH to 2 1/2" and added 3/8" cast on. Looks a little funny but shoots well for me. It doesn't solve all the shortcomings of a left handed, right eye dominant shooter.......

I went to my hunting club/clay range the other day and met a fellow who is a pretty well known hunter/writer. He was hunting alone with his dog. Used an AYA 28 on penned pheasant. He was left eye dominate and right handed. He was wearing a set of shooting glasses with about a one inch square of clear scotch tap applied to the left lens right in front of his pupil. He said he could still shoot with both eyes open, and his depth perception worked, but his right had to function as the dominate eye, since his left was blurred due to the tape.

"Does it work?" I asked.

"Yep", he said; smiling, "works fine".

I suggest that you try it.

If it works for you, it could be a break through! Lots of shooters have your problem.

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Steve McCarty

He was wearing a set of shooting glasses with about a one inch square of clear scotch tap applied to the left lens right in front of his pupil. He said he could still shoot with both eyes open, and his depth perception worked, but his right had to function as the dominate eye, since his left was blurred due to the tape.

You are exactly right Steve. My wife is right handed but her left eye takes over especially on targets going left to right. Clear tape works great and I have also heard of people putting a dab of Vaseline on their left lens to distract that eye to allow the right eye to dominate.

[Stepmac]

What kinds of shells are you folks shooting in your GHs? I just got one. Want to shoot it. It's the season! Barrels on my gun look mirror bright inside. I don't see any rust, so it's as shootable as any GH out there. It also locks up like a safe.

[Bruce Day]

My usual target load store bought is a Fed 1oz 2 3/4dram. If I load my own, its the same. My usual pheasant load is a Fed 1 1/8oz 3 dram or equivalent hand loaded. This is through a 7 1/2lb 1911 GHE with original thickness damascus barrels on a 2 frame. Everyone has their own loads.

A 7 1/2 lb 30" 12ga was usually patterned by Parker using 1 1/8 of no. 7 shot driven by 3 drams of "wood" ( a nitro brand) powder , unless yours was built originally for black powder. In that case, maybe somebody else can tell you how the usual hang tag for that period would read.

Unusually shiny bores on an old gun can be an indicator that the barrels were recently honed to fluff up for selling. You might want to know your barrel wall thickness.

Some use only RST's, others hand load only and everybody is convinced in the correctness of their choice.

Bruce Day, Parker know-nothing

[Richard Flanders]

I shoot lighter 1oz or sometimes 24gram hand loads in my GHE-12 because it's a 26" damascus #1 frame at 6#10oz. No need to blaze away at woodcock and ruffies with heavy loads. My pressures are either 4200psi or 5100psi and 1100-1150 fps. I use PB or SR7625 powder.