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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.

Regarding your Browning.
Skeet/Skeet. Most likely .005 constriction top and bottom.
“New Style Skeet” if it looks like it has 2 forends worth of wood up front.

Yeah, I know. I was joking. It's got the little dollar signs stamped into the left side of its flats. Big Scrooge McDuck fan, so I bought it.

I guess my picture's not showing up for you. It does have that mega yacht of a forend, with the horseshoe-shaped retaining hardware at the front, as opposed to the previous version with fasteners on either side of the wood. The weird thing about it is, when I unboxed and first beheld it, I expected it'd handle like a baulk of mine-shoring timber. Not the case. It swings like it's an extension of my hatred of the color orange.

Your expression peaked my interest Fudd, so I looked it up. A useful thing to know (for those of us that didn't) it means "absolutely no relation of one to the other". A rather neat idiom that I hadn't encountered before.

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

We all need something to love…

Best,
Ted

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Had a Czech pilsner with dinner tonight that caught my eye.

https://waldmannbrewery.com/

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

best regards,

tom

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

They do. The wurst and the beer is to die for.

Best,
Ted

https://waldmannbrewery.com/spring-menu-2021/

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.)