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Shooting trap twice a month is a form of competition.

I am on the second firing pin on my 1975 870TB I bought in’75 and have shot every week since then. Plus hunting deer, ducks, and upland game.

Some real world examples bought in the last two years. Browning Superposed, 30", i.M and Full. $800. Remington 3200'Trao, 30", same chokes, $1000. Beretta 686 Essential (plain but with tubes, selective trigger, ejectors. $750. Stay away from several Turk guns like the $500-600 Huglu and...

One round of trap with some of the kids my son and I coach at the local high school. Then patterned a Cutts equipped 1100 barrel with the super full tube. Wow! Got my turkey gun.

A FCD for 30-30, a bag of figure 8 wads and the book, Hunter, by JA Hunter.

Certainly not in my family and friends group. I have 5 44 mags and 2 specials and my boys have at least one each. Regardless of what the cognoscenti say, the 45 Colt hasn’t put it to rest and only one in a thousand can handle the 454. 29-2, Super Blackhawk, 94 Marlin, 94 Win, CVA Scout, 624...

I picked up a 431 a couple years ago. Stainless. Not even close to my 624 but I can take it places I wouldn’t want where it might get scratched up. Or lost. Bushwhacking along and in my creek. Taurus has been pretty good in the bigger revolvers, other than the Judge with their grossly...

.28/gal, .23 for lucky strikes my senior year and .17 gas and ..16 butts in St Louis where I went to work.

Don’t care who owns what. $325 or more for an 8 pound jug of powder is still obscene.

Not for this old boy. I shot some moly coated bullets out ofmy700 222 years back and it took forever to get old Lucy back to shooting subMOA. Judicious use of JB as a matter of fact.

Couple of 45-70s and a 58 cal rifle/musket. Nothing really big. But more than enough for my Illinois "plains game".

Tonight, not so good bot both of my kids had 40s.

Last week we had a fifty, 49, 48, 47, couple of 46s a few more in the 40s. Also had a 12. My granddaughters had 41, 38.

No offense but that I butt ugly. I can see the utility but, being an old luddite, I prefer blue steel and walnut, maybe with an extended mag and stock sleeve. Like my 870 Police with corncob forend.

Savage/Stevens had an over/under 410 that had the two hammers close together. Model 242, I believe.