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Yep, Sable, nothing underneath and the splinter, best, Mike

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Hey Jimmy W....As a pinkie high Tea drinking brit ...I have to say that I think you are full of shit..or at least I'll give it right back to you!
You like Clunky Beavertails....fine...
But I wouldn't call you a piss tasting beer drinker Yank ,now would I ?
Each to his his own , man.
Dontcha think
lets leave it @ that
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Bushmaster,

If you are used to a larger forearm then that's what you should buy in a double. I shoot a 12 ga Model 21 with beavertail for ducks, geese, & turkey with mostly 3" shells. Unlike the shooters shooting very light shells for woodcock & such or even clays who can "rest the gun" ,with a 3" mag you better get a tight grip when firing or the gun may not be in your hands for the second shot, especially shooting skyward in waterfowl hunting. The checkered beavertail is excellent for this type shooting, not to mention a second piece of beautiful wood to look at. I do own Parkers, a Remington & an Ithaca with splinters, but I always feel better holding on to wood rather than the barrels. Besides I hunt with five or six guys who shoot nothing but automatics and I never heard any one of them say "I wish I had a smaller forearm so I would have a better sight plane or control of the gun...."

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I have fired some pretty potent loads through doubles with splinters. Once even shot several 2 3/4" 12ga factory "Baby Magnum" loads through an old single that weighed no more than 7lbs I'm sure. Wouldn't do it again purely for the reason that old gun shouldn't have had that type of load used in it, AH the ignorance of youth.
I reckon us "Sissies" that squat to pee just don't require all the gimmicks to protect us the "Big HE_Men" type do, We just roll with the punch & go on. Course I knew a little skinny 13yr old, about 90lbs soaking wet, who would beg his Grandfather to borrow an old 12ga single every time he went hunting in preference to the little .410 his Father had stupidly bought him. His approxitamately 250lb uncle who was solid, not fat, made a living carrying one of those big leather Mail Bags around a large Indianna city, fired it one time & handed it back to his father-in-lae & said he wouldn't shoot it again for $100.00. This about 50 years ago when $100.00 was a fair amount of money.


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Gee, Franc. No, let's don't leave it at that. Gettin' uppity? A little? I'm sorry, I never acquired a taste for beer. And K McMichael, don't blame me. I wasn't the one who came up with the saying: There's only two things that come from Texas- steers and ?? How does the rest of that go? So, anyway, enjoy your skimpy little forearms guys. Women's guns!! Ha!!

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Nothing like the feel of warm steel in yer hands.

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Nothing like cold women, hot steel, and trophy capes to bring everyone together, eh Joe?



On the girly-man references above, I'll note that five to six drams behind fourteen bore roundball in this one...




hasn't had me wanting for a forend-codpiece yet.


To each his own.
My old skinny-stocked doubles handle just fine.
My Beretta gas gun and my plastic fantastic 'sporting rifles' all tend to handle just fine too.

The pale-skinned redhead women can be more than a handful!




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I've been shooting Ansley H. Fox doubles with slim forearms for 46 seasons and have never felt the least bit bothered by putting my left hand on the barrels, including 1 5/8 ounce 12-gauge 3-inch shells in my HE-Grade Super-Fox. The only double I ever ran 100 straight at skeet with had a beavertail and a single selective trigger, but I've run 99s with a slim forearm and double triggers.

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Originally Posted By: mike campbell
IMO, there is no practical advantage to a splinter forend.


Mike that's a pretty Gun Club Queen you got there....with all that fancy makeup and nice fAt beaver tail how many Sterlings' you figure she's worth' ?

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The late Frank Woolner whittled away on an already-light autoloader (Winchester 59) to turn it into his customized grouse and woodcock gun. He thought it was better with less wood (and weight). To each his own.

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