No dinosaurs yet? Dang

I hate you.

Low 5 was designed to vex me.

$1600 for an auto is.....well, it takes me breath away.

Southern Illinois used to be a mecca for goose hunting but I don't know anyone who bothers to go anymore, they just weren't seeing anything. The new sport around here seems to be urban goose hunting. A lot of these geese that live year round in cities with lots of small ponds fly out to farm fields during the day, and I am seeing more and more blinds popping up in the middle of harvested corn fields. If the city is along an interstate a popular spot seems to be the non-town side of the interstate, catching them as they fly across looking for somewhere to land. Is anyone else seeing this?

Phil: Is it time to sell my Xtrema 2 in favor of the Xplor?

Phil: Is it time to sell my Xtrema 2 in favor of the Xplor?

Yikes; not sure what the hell happened with all the posts.

Well I had 2 Beretta's 390 & 391, went back to my 1100, should I try one of those?

Blah! Right handed only shotguns! They could cost a hundred dollars and I would not buy them. Oh well, Benelli has me covered with the SBE II and the Montafeltro.

That is a nice gun Phil, but I would be afraid of dropping it if one of my knees failed me.

I have hunted duck, geese, swan and doves with my 12 gauge Winchester Model 50. It works great. Jim Carmichel said the Model 50 was about as good a shotgun as a person would want. My father-in-las spent less than $200.00 for it new. Problem: That was sixty years ago!
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Makes me wonder what my Ithaca 37 is worth. It is the only shotgun I've seen where you can hold the trigger down and it will fire as fast as you can work the pump. The only other gun that I know of that will do that isn't a shotgun. It is my dad's winchester 61 .22 pump. Both are in fair shape after meeting the teenage version of myself. After taking care of other obligations, I would like to get both of them restored--LORD willing. If I ever have kids, I'll try to keep history from repeating itself.

Wow. Nice shotgun. But have you noticed just how much it looks like an 1100, in that shot anyway. The line of the receiver and stock...and all for $1600.00. I'll stick with Big Green.

The high prices you pay for European firearms isn't all for quality materials and labor. It's also for currency exchange and the very high taxes of the European countries. Of course, labor is a big component, because European workers are generally paid very well. All of that said, I will love to have a new Beretta stackbarrel in 28 gauge. Those are the lightest, best looking, most naturally pointing double-barrel shotguns I have ever handled. I do think $1,600 is a little steep for an auto, but maybe not so much when you consider what an Omega or Rolex is selling for. You could get two of those shotguns for what one Omega Seamaster now costs. But I've still got my Remington 1100 Tournament Skeet, now made more versatile with a new barrel and assorted screw-in choke tubes. By the way, the new barrel was to replace the barrel with the "exploding problem" for which I received a check some years ago. Remington changed the composition of the steel. I did a very intense Internet search, and found out that over 1,000 shotgunners had problems with that barrel "giving way." Glad I finally got a new barrel!

Cycling light loads to turkey loads?

Never gave that a second thought since the old Smith & Wesson 1000 Super 12 Waterfowler digests everything from 2 3/4 light trap handloads to 3" heavy magnum waterfowl loads with no adjustments or malfunctions. This is the only autoloader I have ever owned, so I must be missing out on some of the angst y'all suffer with fancier autoloaders....

I have a lefty SBE that I would never sell. It shoots anything. I do have a stack barrel Ruger, side by side Lefever, 870 pump slug only. That being said, I don't think I'll ever need another shotgun. I'll have those for the rest of my life and will probably never need another.

Thanks duckcreekdick, glad to hear of someone else who likes the ithaca 37. Thanks also crm3006, I recon all those older pumps did the same thing. I got that shogun confused with dad's 61 rifle one time when I was a teenager. I was shooting straight up in a tree trying to make a hiding squirrel come out in the open. Both guns are smoothe on the back of the receiver. I figured that because it was "only a rifle", I'd hold it a certain way while firing. Didn't take long to remember which gun I had. My nose stung and itched for the rest of the afternoon.

Phil, What is your pick between the Maxus and the A400
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