12-gauge shotgun advice

[Byron In Exile]

Pull that bitch hard against your shoulder before you pull the trigger.

You're firing a cannon.

 

[Que]

Pull that bitch hard against your shoulder before you pull the trigger.

You're firing a cannon.

Well you want to hold the stock tight anyway but it kind of depends on the load... big difference between bird shot and buckshot.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Well you want to hold the stock tight anyway but it kind of depends on the load... big difference between bird shot and buckshot.

3" magnums.

#40

 

[RunningJib]

Basically

Pull that bitch hard against your shoulder before you pull the trigger.

You're firing a cannon.

Make certain that the stock is properly seated.

Not always easy when a bird flushes. Good way to practice is on the trap or skeet range. However, you will need to shot 'Olympic' style with your gun off the shoulder

 

[Byron In Exile]

Make certain that the stock is properly seated.

Not always easy when a bird flushes. Good way to practice is on the trap or skeet range. However, you will need to shot 'Olympic' style with your gun off the shoulder

I don't shoot animals.

I have guns because of people.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Takes some of the sting out.

I have barrel magazines to go on it...

 

[Byron In Exile]

Takes some of the sting out.

I have barrel magazines to go on it...

I'm considering it.

I don't really need a weapon that's going to put a hole in someone the size of a dinner-plate.

Three shots from a semi-auto rifle will drop anyone.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I'm almost expecting Slob to stop by and give us a lecture on how guns are like dicks and stuff...

And how he would just... rip his own balls off and throw them at an intruder.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm considering it.

I don't really need a weapon that's going to put a hole in someone the size of a dinner-plate.

Three shots from a semi-auto rifle will drop anyone.

Use a choke.

It is a smooth-operating shotgun.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Frankly, if I were in the shotgun market, and I'm not, I'd want to get a 20-gauge. I am often a more-is-better person, but in this case, I think that less is more.


And there's nothing like the sound of that slide racking.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Use a choke.

It is a smooth-operating shotgun.

No, no choke.

It is what it is.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Frankly, if I were in the shotgun market, and I'm not, I'd want to get a 20-gauge. I am often a more-is-better person, but in this case, I think that less is more.

And there's nothing like the sound of that slide racking.

Then get a 410. That's the one for little girls.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Frankly, if I were in the shotgun market, and I'm not, I'd want to get a 20-gauge. I am often a more-is-better person, but in this case, I think that less is more.


And there's nothing like the sound of that slide racking.

Got one.

Trying to talk princess into a .410, but she is dead set on not using a shotgun after hearing all the stories about the kick. She is deadly with her .22 though...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No, no choke.

It is what it is.

Well, with no choke, you can choke on the shot and still get a shot into the target...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Then get a 410. That's the one for little girls.

Why did you say that? It's just not true. A 20 is about 80% of a 12, lacking only some of the extra st00pid. It shoots all sorts of the same shot as a 12, too.


I'm the guy who shoots .30-cal at the range where all the "manly" types are gunning stuff down with . . . .223. In that case, more is better.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Got one.

Trying to talk princess into a .410, but she is dead set on not using a shotgun after hearing all the stories about the kick. She is deadly with her .22 though...

She should graduate to a .223 then.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Got one.

Trying to talk princess into a .410, but she is dead set on not using a shotgun after hearing all the stories about the kick. She is deadly with her .22 though...

Oh... my... God...

410 has no kick.

Get her a 12. Let her be as badass as God wants her to be.

Tell her I said she should do it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

She should graduate to a .223 then.

Working on it.

I led the horse to water, that is about all I can do...



Maybe if I mount a scope on it. Kids these days are all about the scope.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh... my... God...

410 has no kick.

Get her a 12. Let her be as badass as God wants her to be.

Tell her I said she should do it.

She is Southern Chinese, as I know you well recall; she simply does not have enough body mass to remain standing...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Working on it.

I led the horse to water, that is about all I can do...



Maybe if I mount a scope on it. Kids these days are all about the scope.

There are all sorts of AR systems out there for all kinds of optics. You could get the basics and assemble the accessories as you go along, ordering them online and saving some $$$. Scope, red-dot, something . . . and it's what is used a lot these days.


I still like iron sights. They never get invisible in the fog.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I was trained to the iron and have had great difficulty in getting used to the scope.




It just feels so unnatural to be looking into a telescope instead of down the barrel...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What bugs me most is how magnified the Wobble Area is. On iron, it looks normal and acceptable, and through I scope, I think I have contracted palsy.


In other news, I scored another big block, two forged steel crankshafts, and another carb yesterday . . . as well as new stimulus . . . and the weather was gorgeous.


Still waiting to see if Junior has heard anything from the baseball job.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No noose is good noose.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He said they took down the posting. We figured they had enough replies.


Wat is shopping for carb rebuild kits today.


Wat really wishes he'd had Google as a resource when we built that Buick 400 engine. Mn, stuff I know now . . . .


I'd have traded that car for a 383 Roadrunner.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No time for regrets.


Just looking to the future and wondering why everyone is up so early and there is so much commotion going on...

That is never a good sign for me.