If it adds nothing, why do folks seem so quick to mention that it was owned by count, or a duke, or some English military officer who served in some obscure place in India? I just don't get it.
A shotgun's ultimate purpose is to hit the thing we are shooting at . . . . period. What does it matter if it belonged, a hundred years ago, to some sort of royalty? Or, if it was originally bought by a hardscrabble farmer who used it to feed the family for forty years?
I guess if you bought the gun to be able to brag of its provenance, that's important to you. But, if you then proceed to miss 4 doves for every one you hit with it, what have you shown, or accomplished?
Do you tell yourself on the way home "I shot like s**t, but I was shooting a gun that a count, or prince, used to own!"?
Maybe I'm too results oriented, but I just hate like hell to miss. Regardless who previously owned the gun I now have.
Last edited by Stanton Hillis; 06/18/26 10:10 PM.
