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I'm leaning heavily toward the CZ Hammer Classic. Sounds like CZ USA will promptly lighten the triggers if needed, and it will need a pad, otherwise it pushes the right buttons for a mudder.

Best part of whatever I buy will be the looks on the faces at the duck shack. They aren't gun guys, and no matter how I explain it, they won't get it.

I once had a young game warden look up foolishly from one of my double-guns after telling me he needed to check my plug???...Geo

That happened to me once!!! He looked down the tubes anyway (I think he was trying to save face). My partner had a pump gun and he wasn't checked! Go figure.

Best,

Greg

Now if it would have been the late Popplecop, he would have confiscated a nice double and kept it for himself. Popplecop (John Holmes), retired WI game warden, was a hell of a good guy and he liked his SxS's. I sold him a 30" 16 gauge Western Arms that became his favorite duck gun.

That is funny George. Reminds me of the chap who pulled the beavertail forearm off my dad's Nitro Special trying to pump it after shooting a rooster.

Just curious oskar, did you get your load from the BP manual? What velocity did you settle on, I'm thinking of making up batch of 1oz. for the coming fall. I keep leaning towards #4's, but I suspect 6's would be plenty enough with good reach.

Now I think about it, there is a double with sliding barrels and has two more shells in waiting below the closed barrels for automatic loading. I can't recall the name of the gun, but mebbe that's what the game warden was thinking of when he checked my plug?...Geo

Geo, that is a Levi. It is a sliding breech gun, no sliding barrels. I can pretty safely say there isn�t one west of the firearms museum in Liege.

Handed a game warden a Darne, once. He looked it over, and handed it back. Never opened it. Didn�t say another thing. If he had asked, I would have told him anything he wanted to know.

Best,
Ted

On two different occasions I've been asked if my 2 barreled gun had a plug. Once in a dove field when I was shooting a Beretta O/U and again following a September Teal season. That time the plug question was followed (with another O/U) by the question of what game I had taken. The Gillie clad Warden was surprised that I spotted him long before he thought I should have but he was really shocked when my answer was 2 Blue Winged Teal and a red Wing blackbird. When asked why I shot a redwing my response was that the season on them was open and that I had 7 doves at home and needed 1 more "dove" for a meal I was planning! He laughed so hard that he got me going too! It must have been a sight! Anyway, I saw him often and we always visited on those occasions but he never checked me again. His phone number in my cellphone always got rapid response when I called about poachers/trespassers. In both instances I offered them an out by saying, you ask that question all the time so that it's just automatic, isn't it.

I was asked that question by a local warden once, on a dove shoot. I was holding my 20 ga. Silver Pigeon II Sporting. Soon as he asked, he looked quickly at the double and laughed sheepishly. I just smiled and said "Yeah".

I never could understand why a plug is necessary when the limit is enforced. What does it matter how many shells a guy wastes after the first two or three?

SRH