Sweet Thang & Sweet Pea


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April 2, 2008, 12:43 AM
Preface: I have known and do know some real characters. *grin*

I know this couple, he is married to a younger gal, only 4 months , but at 69 a younger gal is a younger gal no matter how you do the math.

Back around '78, or '79 they bought cases and cases of Winchester Western , 25 round box like the Police used, 2 3/4" , 00 buck and Slugs.

Sweet Thang is a Winchester Ranger series 1300.
Sweet Pea is a Winchester 1400.

Now this couple, downright embarrassing is what they are.
They hold hands, flirt, wink, and carrying on like they always have.
They can flat run a shotgun, heck shoot guns period.

They hold hands in a duck blind, letting go only to shoot.
Dove hunting, same deal, over there carrying on, and only to stop long enough to pop a dove and the dawg is so happy so go fetch as he was getting all embarrassed with all the mushy stuff going on.

Oh they have other shotguns, just these are the pet shotguns.
Clays, hunting, serious home use, just they know these guns so well and they can look at dings, scratches and character marks and get glazed eyes and tell you a story about that day.

They might be nearing 70, but they are smooth poetry in motion and the guns and loads still work.

Them old Win Western loads, they work and if it ain't broke, why fix it.

Nine inch and six inch dessert plates were set out, along with some 4x6" index cards.

To get warmed up, they shot some clays from a portable thrower using 00 buckshot.
So that would be nine pellets felling a 4" disc doing about 55 mph best guess.
Sweet Thang got to showing off and nicked a clay with a slug with the trap set for "grounders".

Sweet Pea just a grinning at Sweet Thang and getting them glazed over eyes about his younger gal...
*mushy*

Sweet Thang, with slugs, shoot-n-shuck and two holes on a index card from low ready so fast, so effortless and smooth, about 17 steps or so.

Sweet Pea putting nine pellets inside them plates from "right here" to "out yonder a bit".

Their kids don't worry about them, nobody does either, they have some old guns they know, with loads they know and add other prevention steps they use.

Dawg still keeps a paw over his face, he just get flat embarrassed the way them two carry on, but he is a good watch dawg...even if matters inside do get a bit mushy at times.


Just wanted to share about a couple of characters and their guns and loads...

They just suggest folks get a gun that fits, get to know it, find what it likes to shoot, and just shoot the piss out of it.

Makes sense to me...

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Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
April 3, 2008, 01:57 AM
Good story; thanks. :)

axeman_g
April 3, 2008, 10:23 AM
may I steal this line....

"...just shoot the piss out of it."

Absolutely the #1 thing to do with any gun. I am so guilty of giving up on a gun that just did not fit me right, even if it did, or does not shoot for me, or it felt uncomfortable.

What I am trying to say is that for me 90% of guns fit, and should work fine. I have a laundry list of guns I have sold or traded that for some reason or another.
hk .45c
sig 226
Franchi 48al
springfield 1911 loaded
springfield xd .40
remington 1100 12
remington 870 20g LH
remington 1100 20g
fabarm 386
new ithaca 37 16g
walther p99 qa
glock 23
beretta 92
beretta 92c
CZ 452 Lux
AWA .357 Peacemaker
S&W M&P 9mm

I think I use it as an excuse to go get something new. I think I would take back 80% of the guns listed above in a minute.

Now, I have some guns that will always be with me because I love them and I do shoot the piss out of them.

Ithaca 37 16g
Browning A5 Sweet 16
Ruger MkIII 22/45 4" Bull
Toz 78 .22Lr
CZ 85
S&W M19
Colt Combat Commander

Jury is still out on Browning BPS but I am going to give it a really long trial. I am also in the middle of reacquiring a Glock 20 and a Walther p99.

Part of this realization has been brought about by my living in a place where my gun purchases can not happen with as much frivolity as they did when I lived in Ga. Trading in or purchasing a new handgun here in NJ is a two month ordeal. So that totally eliminates impulse purchases or trades. Plus trade values here SUCK! Gun dealers here know they have you by the short ones, or lead people to beleive they have no other option, that FTF deals are illegal. But that is a whole nother rant.

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