Originally Posted By: Snipe Hunter
Originally Posted By: David
Originally Posted By: treblig1958
Originally Posted By: Snipe Hunter
I hunted an area yesterday that is about as boggy as anywhere I've hunted. It was the second time I hunted it this year and both times it wore me slap out. I think I will be spending the rest of this season in a couple of places that are a little easier on my aging body.



Snipe, what is that shotgun?


I was going to comment on that gun also. I have a Birmingham boxlock very much like it only with a scolloped action with a bit more engraving coverage. It is an extractor gun with a Greener-type crossbolt. Mine has Birmingham proofs, but the only other markings on it are the name A. Mathers, Dundee. It was re-stocked by a stockmaker in Canada before I acquired it and he put flutes in the comb.


It is a 1930's Belgian guild gun. It is my lightest 20 gauge gun at 5 lbs, 8 oz. with a 14 1/2" stock and 28" barrels. Nothing fancy, just a no frills extractor gun that seems to shoot close enough to where I point it and is light to carry. The gun I shot the first few times I hunted this year was a fairly light 6 lbs, 2 oz but those ten less ounces feel like a couple of pounds after a few hours of tromping around in a swamp in Florida weather in waders.

Skip



Beautiful gun Skip!!!! smile