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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Conagher 45 on November 15, 2017, 05:44:05 PM
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I haven't been complaining about doing the grocery shopping now that our Walmart is selling Federal 16 gauge ammo. Love those purple shells.
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Cool... I like a 16ga.
The wife and I were in two different Sam's clubs last week and both had a couple of pallets of Federal shotgun shells for $48 per case. The thought never occurred to look for any of it was 16ga.
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As a kid I always held those shotguns referred to as "Sweet 16's"
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As a kid I always held those shotguns referred to as "Sweet 16's"
My landlady had a Browning circa 1950’s “Sweet Sixteen” of her husbands. Tried to get it appraised so I could buy it from them.
She gave it her nephew....
Durn relatives!!!
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My landlady had a Browning circa 1950’s “Sweet Sixteen” of her husbands. Tried to get it appraised so I could buy it from them.
She gave it her nephew....
Durn relatives!!!
Like they said. You can pick your friends. You can pick your a$$. But you can't pick your relatives!
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I've been looking at some RST non-toxic shot to have on hand for areas where you have to use it.
Kind of $$ but I would be shooting all that much of that stuff.
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The hardest kicking gun I have is my dad's old 16 gauge Mossberg bolt action. I dunno why...maybe because it's a straight stock or maybe because as a kid I was "concerned" about the kick. It is a gun from a different time but I like it a lot and I like the 16 gauge...I'd kind of forgotten about it.
I have a 20 gauge coach gun and the obligatory 12's. Now...hmmm, I have a quest for a 16 gauge just because of this post.
The gun companies really should advertise here more....
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I looked long and hard at buying the Browning Upland Special in 16 ga a few years back. I was disappointed in the Asian build and fit and finish!
I may look again. I don’t hunt much with my Wingmaster in 12 ga so maybe a change is in order.
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I get what you're saying about fit and finish. That's another good reason to buy a used gun. I have just won a Gunbroker auction for a Rem 1100 in .410...I hope it's as nice as the pictures show. I've only had one bad experience and that was from a pawn shop in Florida. I was not able to provide the justifiable bad feedback because I waited to long to pick it up from the FFL being out-of-town and such.
Right now, I think the Remington 740's (742's...whatever) are the best value in the used gun market. You can get a used one in pretty good shape for $300 and great shape for $350. Now, there are a lot of them out there for a lot more but right now they are depressed in the market so you can get a "steal". I just picked up one in 30-06 with a scope for $290 including shipping. I'll need to post some pics when I get time.
I would say 98% of all guns (that aren't 22 plinkers) have not had more than 100 rounds or so through them....that's nothing. It's all a matter of how they were handled and cared for. In my book, used ain't used with a low round count weapon that's been well cared for.
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Rastus, those Remington 1100's are great guns.
My uncle had one in 16ga and he let me keep it to hunt doves with from when I was 14 until I could afford my own shotgun (Ithaca 37). After I returned it to hi I don't think he shot it much because when he died in 2010, the 100 and several boxes of the shells I gave him when I returned it were all in his closet.
My aunt asked me if I wanted the gun along with the handful of others he owned. I said I'd rather go on and give it to my younger son who had great relationship with him (more like a grandfather than an uncle).
I kept the Baby Browning pistol, a Remington .22lr bolt action, and my favorite: an Ithaca 66 single shot .410 (first shotgun I ever shot, my uncle loaned it to me to hunt squirrels).
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Nice story about family being blessed and affirmed by inheritance Peg. I hope you got to shoot that 16 gauge again.
My first shotgun I shot was my .410 Topper at age 12. The ejector broke maybe 4-5 years after I got it. It still shot and ejected I just had to make certain I didn't lose the broken part....which a few years later fell out when someone wasn't looking.
I have been looking for a replacement for 25 years and Numrich's finally got one recently. I just got it in the mail last week...hope to fix the old girl this weekend and take her out again.
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Nice story about family being blessed and affirmed by inheritance Peg. I hope you got to shoot that 16 gauge again.
My first shotgun I shot was my .410 Topper at age 12. The ejector broke maybe 4-5 years after I got it. It still shot and ejected I just had to make certain I didn't lose the broken part....which a few years later fell out when someone wasn't looking.
I have been looking for a replacement for 25 years and Numrich's finally got one recently. I just got it in the mail last week...hope to fix the old girl this weekend and take her out again.
Fantastic, hope you get it done.
I can shoot the 1100 any time....my son built his house a hundred yards away. ;D
That Ithaca 66 I mentioned has a "repair" story (I may have posted it on here before). After my uncle died, when my aunt called us over to get the guns, my dad asked me if he could use the .410 to shoot squirrels out of our pecan grove. My dad was never a gun guy (had nothing against them and had owned some in the past) so I said sure plug away at 'em and I'll get the gun sometime in the future.
Well, first thing he did was jump on his golf cart with the shotgun and drove over to his house and when he went into the garage the tip of the barrel was hanging off the seat and caught on the center support post and bent in a perfectly sweeping 45° bend.
I was heart-broken after realizing barrels were few and far between.
We have a neighbor about a mile or so down the road that retired from the machine shop at the company we worked for and he runs a gunsmithing business. So my dad carries it down there and I figure there ain't a snowball in hell chance of salvaging that barrel. But, I was wrong. the neighbor straightened it in a special jig and you can not look at it and tell it was ever bent.
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Fantastic, hope you get it done.
I can shoot the 1100 any time....my son built his house a hundred yards away. ;D
That Ithaca 66 I mentioned has a "repair" story (I may have posted it on here before). After my uncle died, when my aunt called us over to get the guns, my dad asked me if he could use the .410 to shoot squirrels out of our pecan grove. My dad was never a gun guy (had nothing against them and had owned some in the past) so I said sure plug away at 'em and I'll get the gun sometime in the future.
Well, first thing he did was jump on his golf cart with the shotgun and drove over to his house and when he went into the garage the tip of the barrel was hanging off the seat and caught on the center support post and bent in a perfectly sweeping 45° bend.
I was heart-broken after realizing barrels were few and far between.
We have a neighbor about a mile or so down the road that retired from the machine shop at the company we worked for and he runs a gunsmithing business. So my dad carries it down there and I figure there ain't a snowball in hell chance of salvaging that barrel. But, I was wrong. the neighbor straightened it in a special jig and you can not look at it and tell it was ever bent.
That's amazing. When I got a small ding in a shotgun barrel I used that as an excuse to hack several inches off it.
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I would be wondering about shooting that barrel after working the metal that much. Unfounded fear I guess.
Well, no I won't be working on my .410 this weekend. At least not today. We have a Christmas party to go to...dang.
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It shoots fine.
The bend was sweeping and far enough out from the chamber that I don't think pressure issues are a concern (also the smith's opinion). He used a jig with smooth rollers that basically works in reverse of one of those rolling tubing benders.