I'm better with a rifle and handgun to be honest..I did some sporting clays a while back, I did a post on it. Was a lot of fun, more exciting than simple trap shooting. My shotgun is a pretty cheap thing I use as a back up when I go pig shooting. It cost me $950 back about 20 years ago and is made by Fausti. Cheap, but does the job.
I don't spend much on shotguns, not my favorite firearm, but I am modifying a three round tube feed into a 10 round magazine, machined from a solid aluminum block. The spring is a problem, because the ammunition is Heavy; and the lift distance is long!
This 20 gauge I found at a swap meet for $50. No one knew how to use it...the guy on the skeet range offered me $1000 for it!
50 bucks exchanged for 1000 seems like a pretty good return. It sounds like you didn't sell it though. That magazine project would be a good post for The Pew community as it starts to come together.
I NEVER sell firearms! I have a 22 Remmington Field master pump that I bought 50 years ago. I use it to train kids now!
Besides, this old stove pipe takes Careful Handling; and special knowledge to use safely! I have enjoyed black powder for decades, and find that the muzzle loaders cause me to hold target better, because the charge ignition takes time.
I've sold some, but generally only to buy more, or to realign what I have, to balance it out and make it more suited to my needs. I sometimes see something I need to have (want to have) and for financial reasons tend to drop something else away to get it. I don't have mountains of money so have no choice. I just had to buy a new safe a few months ago, so have a few on the go, mostly filled with guns.
I like to repair and rebuild damaged firearms. Making replacement parts is the best way to understand the mechanism.
I bought a percussion derringer (45) that was being sold as a child's toy! THEY didn't know it was real, or that it just needs a lock spring...Nice 'kids' toy!
I have a nice safe, no guns in it, but it is a nice safe, LOL!
Never doubted that, i was just saying that if you have the shotgun; you shouldn't have to worry abouf being shot by it....
:)>I'm better with a rifle and handgun to be honest..I did some sporting clays a while back, I did a post on it. Was a lot of fun, more exciting than simple trap shooting. My shotgun is a pretty cheap thing I use as a back up when I go pig shooting. It cost me $950 back about 20 years ago and is made by Fausti. Cheap, but does the job.
I don't spend much on shotguns, not my favorite firearm, but I am modifying a three round tube feed into a 10 round magazine, machined from a solid aluminum block. The spring is a problem, because the ammunition is Heavy; and the lift distance is long!
This 20 gauge I found at a swap meet for $50. No one knew how to use it...the guy on the skeet range offered me $1000 for it!
:)>50 bucks exchanged for 1000 seems like a pretty good return. It sounds like you didn't sell it though. That magazine project would be a good post for The Pew community as it starts to come together.
I NEVER sell firearms! I have a 22 Remmington Field master pump that I bought 50 years ago. I use it to train kids now!
Besides, this old stove pipe takes Careful Handling; and special knowledge to use safely! I have enjoyed black powder for decades, and find that the muzzle loaders cause me to hold target better, because the charge ignition takes time.
This helps with modern firearms too....
:)>I've sold some, but generally only to buy more, or to realign what I have, to balance it out and make it more suited to my needs. I sometimes see something I need to have (want to have) and for financial reasons tend to drop something else away to get it. I don't have mountains of money so have no choice. I just had to buy a new safe a few months ago, so have a few on the go, mostly filled with guns.
They call that horse trading here.
I like to repair and rebuild damaged firearms. Making replacement parts is the best way to understand the mechanism.
I bought a percussion derringer (45) that was being sold as a child's toy! THEY didn't know it was real, or that it just needs a lock spring...Nice 'kids' toy!
I have a nice safe, no guns in it, but it is a nice safe, LOL!
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