jigman84
Try to keep pressures and recoils low, not only to protect the barrels but also the wood. In the case of your gun I'd worry more about cracking/splitting the stock then damaging the barrels. BTW I worked one fall about 19 years ago outside of Lind WA. I remember seeing lots of pheasants during my work in the field and my travels back and forth to the job site. Lind was a nice little town, in fact I found the general population on the eastern side of the Cascades much more open and welcoming then those on the west side.
Steve

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