Here you go, ed. I don’t know about perfect, but, these two are pretty good.

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Darne V19, 20 gauge. After I lost my left eye and had to shoot right handed I couldn’t make it work for me. Happily owned by a regular poster here, who had no such problem with it. His wife sent me a gift and a thank you card after he bought it from me. I think it was choked IC and MOD.

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Ithaca Lefever Nitro Special, 16 gauge, 1938 vintage (same as my late mother) which, gets you 2 3/4” chambers, dispelling with all that angst about what ammunition to use. It has 26” tubes, with factory CYL and MOD chokes and weighs 6lbs and a few ounces. I have a few ten round boxes of old Heavi-metal #6 loads that a poster sold me years ago, he said they didn’t hit ducks hard enough, but, I don’t have any problem knocking grouse down with them. So, I have a curio and relic non-toxic gun to hunt with.

I have others. They all have different features and represent different compromises. I used an early Remington pump for many years as a younger man, but, find I’m not so interested in cycling an action after the shot, these days.

The cute pup is my hunting date, Louise, or, Louie, as she is known to her friends. She spent the first year of her life deathly ill with a doggie immune disorder, and, in spite of everybody telling me I should put her down, I chose to keep hoping and praying. She is only OK as a hunting dog, but, if there is a better behaved hunting and home companion out there, I haven’t met her. Louie literally loves everybody. 12 years old, going on about 3 1/2, at the moment, but, I know how this rodeo ends. Not looking forward to it.


Best,
Ted