I had a Darne 12 gauge that somebody (I know who, but, we’ll just leave it at that) treated to a massive backbore. I can remember being at the club with a box of the new, at the time, Winchester low noise and recoil ammunition to shoot some clays-the gun was under 6 lbs, and I figured lower recoil should be a good thing. It wasn’t cold, but, it pretty much sounded like I loaded 25 bloopers during that round. Performance was subpar.
I switched to my MacNaughton 12, a gun originally proofed as a 13 bore, shot the same loads, and, viola’, I was back in the game.
Chamber a Winchester AA super handicap 7 1/2 shot load and grouse fell from the sky. Either gun. But, the Darne was handier in the woods, by far.
Best,
Ted
