All the dribble about "shoot one gun" is very much just rhetoric, not real world experience. Once I have a positive shooting experience with a gun, whether it be winning money or a good day on birds, that gun becomes part of my shooting life. It becomes hard to let it go so it earns a place in the cabinet, at least for a few years. I once owned a canoe paddle Model 21 double trigger gun that was used pretty much exclusively on Mallards at a friend's RSA here in MD. These were free flying marsh raised ducks that seldom presented themselves to our stool. I never gave those ducks much of a thought when I traded the 21 for a screaming Highwall at an Ohio Gun Collectors Association show several years ago. Next duck season, I didn't know what to shoot, but I had many choices so everything was fine until I realized that the previous season, in the few days I shot those mallards, I had not missed one nor had I dirtied the left barrel. A new Boss would not have appeased me in my misery over selling that gun. I used the same Remington over under to break my first and only 100 straight in registered .410 skeet competition and to win my first and only Silver Medal in International Skeet competition. I sold that gun for $825.00 and have no recollection of why I felt that I didn't need it any more. A Boss wouldn't help me stop missing that Remington either.
