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I shot sporting clays last Sunday with the Army & Navy hammer side lever double I just bought from Heritage Guns. It's damascus and I loaded double A hulls with the Win gray wads for 7/8 oz shot using 12.7 grains of Win Lite powder. Supposed to be 5,500 PSI. The gun and loads worked great. Very little recoil but the targets broke just fine. I was shooting pretty well until the last station when I decided to switch to my Win Model 21. I broke two targets. I shot the station over with the Army & Navy and broke 8 targets. It was great fun and I love that old gun. Next, it's time to try my 1934 double trigger Superposed that I just got back together after engraving by Angelo Bee and new wood from Wenig.

Sounds like fun. Where do you shoot?

I usually shoot at Moore-N-Moore but last Sunday I went to a shoot up near Cuyama at a place called Harrington Farms. It's on Highway 33 about 15 miles north of the Lockwood Valley Road out of Frazier Park. It's a fun but not difficult course. Costs $50 including a great BBQ lunch. That was my first time but I will certainly go back even though it takes about 2 hours to get there. The weekend before I went to the Southern SXS in North Carolina so a two hour drive is not so bad.
Regards.

I shoot Sporting Clays quite a lot with my Damascus HammerGuns. Either light European 2 3/4x1 loads or 19 gr. Pb with 1 oz shot.
Much more fun and little if any fewer broken targets

Done all the time with a 16 bore hammergun.

sv

Michael Harris representing the LCSCA and Dr John Truitt for PGCA at The Southern Hammergun Challenge Shoot Off. Michael won with a 24/25 when Dr Truitt's Parker turned into an auto-opener

That's how them Smith guns will do ya, fail right at a crucial moment.

DLH

Here I sit reading this having just boxed up my only sxs hammergun to send off to its new owner. As if I wasn't missing it enough already.

Last year at NRA Whittington, Vintagers shoot, I shot better on the warm up Friday, with my Elsie Hammer gun, than I did in the real deal on Saturday. I shot a round with my hammer Greener yesterday, and was amazed at how much better it shoots than I can! Dont matter, they are all wonderful....

I've reread that post several times and each time I come up with the LCS guy winning when the parker failed. Am I missing something?