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Let my brother borrow it. Don't ask me how I know this.
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On a vintage gun...
1. add a rubber recoil pad 2. add a rubber recoil pad 3. add a rubber recoil pad 4. add a rubber recoil pad 5. cut the barrels
Oh, and I'll even add a 6th one
6. add a rubber recoil pad So what do you do if the stock's too short? And on quite a few vintage doubles, a recoil pad was a factory option: Parker, Elsie, Fox, Iver Johnson. And "period" pads are available. They're only too short if you intend to shoot them. From what I've seen that's waaaaaay down on the list for most "vintage" gun owners. In fact, shooting isn't even a consideration for many. Hmmm. Must be one of those practices that varies from the East Coast to the Midwest. Everyone I know that owns vintage guns buys them to shoot . . . assuming they're shootable. Some cheapo trashed guns bought for wall hangers, I suppose. But at least out this way, not many folks buy vintage guns strictly to collect and not shoot them. And the ones that are truly collectible are far fewer in number than the ones that are not collectible but perfectly shootable.
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The absolute worst thing you can do to a double, or any gun for that matter, is to NOT join the NRA or renew your existing membership.
Practice safe eating. Always use a condiment.
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To add to the above:
"send it off to Briley's" to have screw chokes added Shoot Steel Shot in it - Shoot modern high pressure and/or hard recoiling ammo in it Take it apart and futz with it of you don't know what you are doing Removing Sling Swivels and Cheek Pieces from guns that came with them Treating them with less care than a pair of pliers
Last edited by postoak; 03/31/14 08:10 PM.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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Bugger the screws.
There should be a rule if you bugger the screw you have to make if perfect again or they take away your screw driver for life.
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let someone tell you what to do with your property
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1) Having a gun custom made for you and then losing it. Say for instance if Burt Becker were to make you an HE Super Fox and you left it leaning on the bumper of your car and drove off.
2) Or maybe instead, finding Bo Whoop lying on the side of the road, discovering what you had found, and not returning it.
Last edited by Doverham; 04/01/14 08:26 AM.
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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The absolute worst thing you can do to a double, or any gun for that matter, is to NOT join the NRA or renew your existing membership. Ding-Ding-Ding! Give this man a cigar! +100
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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While not a SxS, a few friends overturned their boat on the river while duck hunting. Their pumps and autos were "drowned." The hunters had a very cold swim that morning, in heavy clothes.
They recovered one Remington 11-87 with a magnet two weeks later. After a major cleaning, it was O.K.
The other two shotguns are still in the river.
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ONE of the worst things you can do to a fine double gun is not shoot it.
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