Getting ready to shoot my XXV for the first time.
Taking the shot.
I was very pleased with its performance. It took me a short time to adjust to it, but as long as I shoot using Churchill's method, it is a heck of a gun. It is not a gun to try and force to do what you want. You have to shoot the minute it is bedded in your shoulder. If you do that, the clays explode. If not you have a clean miss. I will come to love that little gun. It is pretty much already stocked to my dimensions. I do have to have the cast reduced as it is a little more than I need. By the end I was breaking clays with it successfully. I look forward to using it more this summer.
Here is my Birmingham Cross Brothers underlever which was built in 1879. I shoot 2 inch 12ga loads through it just to be easy on it. It is a fun little gun. I sat some 2 3/4 shells next to the 2 inch shells just to show the comparison.
Here I am taking a shot with it.
I really like this gun and look forward to restoring it and taking some birds with it.
My wife Christina also decided to join us for a round. She borrowed my AyA to see if she liked it.
Here she is taking a shot.
All in all it was a great day. We had fun getting out and shooting again, as well as trying out our new guns. I look forward to tweaking my guns to fit me just right, as well as shooting them this summer in preparation for this fall. Greg was very pleased with his new gun and is also excited to use it this summer in preparation for fall. Christina is eying my gun, so I may have to look for another for her
. She enjoys hunting some with me every fall which makes the hunts even more fun as I get to share the experience with her.
