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Took a long-overdue trip to the trap & skeet club today.



On the left, Rizzini BR550, 28-gauge, 28" barrels. A magic wand. Used it for four rounds of trap with Modified chokes. Shot like a bag of hammers, very inconsistently, but had fun doing so. Odd thing, today... The backside of the trigger guard kept smacking my middle finger, to the point that it's a bit bruised and swollen. Never happened before. Same loads I've always used. Is my grip too loose or something?

On the right, salt wood-era Browning Superposed Lightning Skeet, 12-gauge, 26" pipes. Choked, uhh, I forget how it's choked. A short, fat shillelagh of a shotgun. Shot two rounds of skeet, coached on where to hold for each penguin at every station by a real old pro, and actually managed to blow up some doubles. More than once each round, which is encouraging. And by blow up, I mean they disintegrated. It only happened when my mind was a blank, though. See penguin, shoot penguin.

These two bazookas couldn't be more different-- unless one of them had a third barrel chambered in .229 Flea, and the other had a built-in Würzburg radar set. I love 'em both.

I love my double-barrelled shotguns. But I might be guilty of loving language a bit more.

If they had a kitchen, I'd live there.

looks like a dandy place to have a bite to eat...

best regards,

tom

I've just screwed a pair of Skeet choke tubes into the Rizzini and stuffed my last four boxes of 28-gauge 3/4-ounce No. 8s into its duffel. Weather holds, I'm gonna finally try the thing out at Skeet tomorrow. Hopefully the gift shop at the club will have another flat to sell me. (And five-dollar bills in the till so I can break a twenty to tip the trap kid.)