doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Be thankful for your doublegun.

The little varmints are shorter than the weeds an are easy to lose. I used to take a Scots Terrier out to hunt with me sometimes, couldn't hunt but a heck of a personality. I would lose him as soon as we got out of the truck. I look everywhere only to find he was right around the corner wondering what I was distressed about. Pocket pointers are easy to lose.

Please understand, I am neither for you or against you with my post. My post simply reflects the way I go about what I do with my stuff, dogs included.

To be clear, I own a few guns I couldn't afford to replace. Others saw that they ended up with me, for their own reasons. My Father owned an O/U and an Automatic or two, and I try to hunt with at least one of them every year. This action has nothing to do with what I prefer in a gun. Were it not for my Father, chances are good I wouldn't own a gun, or love the outdoors like I do. His love of Setters ended up pretty firmly planted in my psyche, as well.
The average dog guy owns a gun or two. I'm not that guy.


Best,
Ted

Pooch
My dachshund knows and understands how to hunt both upland and waterfowl. I am so dismayed I did not breed my dog as his line is nearing an end. Everyone who has had this line brags about the hunting accomplishments of these dogs. As brief bio is I could only buy him if my intention was to hunt him. He grew up training with my labs and thinks he is one. A dynamic water entry and will retrieve a wounded duck or goose on water. Has an incredible understanding of where a bird went down in the field. Knows and understands when we are pheasant or chukar hunting. Routes out as many upland birds as the big dogs do in the right cover and conditions. But I am getting carried away and taking this thread way off topic

What fun to read all the different stories and philosohies of gun accumulations/collections and what it all means to each of us. I can almost picture us in a large dimly lit room with trophies hanging on the wall, a big fire going in an even bigger fireplace talking through this topic.
I for one am an eclectic accumulator. As mentioned before by one of you, I tend to go for things I find different and interesting. I also like the challenge of bringing back to life a gun that fed families, or deserves a second chance. Provenance is very important to me, it's half the story of a shotgun. I have an old Parker hammer gun with 32" barrels. It came with a flame maple stock and a walnut forend. I wonder what stories that gun might have.
Carl

Not rueful but seriously contemplative (because of my age) of how thankful I am for my doubleguns. Those American classics and fine Europeans provided me with all the gunning passions of the past. But now what am I going to do with them? Without handloading---three MECs keep me going---they're mostly out of commission because of steel and 1500fps. I don't look at them as I did 25 years ago.

Mr. Brown,

You must, as I endeavour to do with modest results, is to encourage the younger generations to enjoy our passions. As it has always been.

It's your dog and your life do with them as it pleases you. My comment was more about myself who would take my silly old Scots Terrier hunting with me. The Scotty couldn't hunt but was good company during the long drive. But the little bugger would get lost in the high weeds immediately and I would spend an inordinate amount of time hunting for him when he was usually only 10 feet away chasing a rat of just being a dog.

Thanks for the encouragement. My modest results are entirely with another generation, a seven-year-old great grandson. He's seen all the guns, barrels of decoys etc and asked to go this year. I fear he'll be like the rest, hiding their disgust of killing to eat such beautiful feathered creatures.He wants to be a vet and volunteers at SPCA. Our six children and grandchildren looked upon hunting as an earlier one did about spitting, a fillthy and disgusting habit.

I use to hunt and had many dogs - it was fun. Now in my 70's I've slowed down and just shoot clay birds. I also have many SxS's and most of them were bought a little cheaper because they needed fixing. I like working with my hands - building muzzleloaders and forging HC steel and Damascus knives, so I've accumulated some equipment to do it. I've always liked buying a gun that needs something done to it - then I feel it's " my " gun when I'm done. Usually it's refinishing the stock, adding a recoil pad, or bending a stock to fit. I leave CC's or redoing the Damascus barrels to a pro like Brad. I like my Remingtons the most - 82,89, and A, B, C, and three F grades. Those and the Parkers or Lefever all get rotated so they all get shot seeing how I shoot three times a week.