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Until the Minnesota DNR attempts to stick you with non toxic shot for everything. They did that, once. We had to remind them at the meeting that the legislature, and elected representatives changed the law, not them.
Your options, assuming a 2 1/2” in proof Holland, are going to be slim. Not impossibly slim, but, slim, none the less.
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Ted
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After reflection I don't even know if I would be happy with just one gauge, much less one gun. Life is too short, buy them all and shoot whatever makes you happy.
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That's what I thought 20 or so years ago, KY Jon. Now I'm embarrassed by how deeply the fever entered, with every person on the forum now an accomplice, educating and encouraging me to the world of shotguns.
No regrets, of course, and each time I take them out I hold them more tenderly because of the memories. But at each look at that rack now, I ask myself "What was I thinking" and have started giving them away.
Possessions at some point are a burden.
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That's what I thought 20 or so years ago, KY Jon. Now I'm embarrassed by how deeply the fever entered, with every person on the forum now an accomplice, educating and encouraging me to the world of shotguns.
No regrets, of course, and each time I take them out I hold them more tenderly because of the memories. But at each look at that rack now, I ask myself "What was I thinking" and have started giving them away.
Possessions at some point are a burden. ”I’m embarrassed “, but “no regrets”......sounds a bit contradictory, eh King??
Socialism is almost the worst.
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If I'm taking into account my current reloading equipment and supplies, plus ammunition availability in the average US town, I would select a 12 bore IC x 12 bore full over 30-06 drilling. There's not much in the continental US that couldn't be taken with this setup.
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A lot of people in Europe have made the same choice, at the not so gentle insistence of their government.
A drilling, to me, is a compromise. Like an enduro motorcycle. You have a street legal bike you can ride in the dirt. It isn’t very well suited for either. You can shoot deer or birds with a drilling, but, it seems it is always a compromise, and it wouldn’t be my first choice for either.
Others may feel differently.
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Ted
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I would have chosen said dreiling but I thought we were restricted to a scattergun only. After my English pointer pointed the biggest buck(in his bed) I had seen as a teen, I began the search for a solution when a very nice buck is 20 feet away and we are @ a Mexican standoff...... Thought we had a covey & landed up w/ a rack of antlers that I couldn't do anything with @ the time.
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Raimey
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I agree totally, it wouldn't be my first choice if I could have several guns. I suppose the question doesn't specify that I can't have other rifles, so with that in mind, I would select a modern, chrome lined 12 bore SxS with screw in chokes. Something like a Dickinson Estate with an English stock.
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I thought long about a drilling 50 years ago and gave it up as a bad idea. If I see birds while hunting big game it adds to the pleasure, and if see deer or moose while hunting birds I get the same pleasure. Nothing's lost to me.
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A drilling is kind of a compromise. Neither the rifle, nor the shotgun, does what it is capable of doing quite as well as a dedicated one or the other. I suppose for a "one gun" guy it might be okay.
JMO, YMMV.
SRH
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