[tahoe2]

They can be doubles, slide shuckers, singles or whatever. Brand new or family heirlooms ! whacha got?
I'll start this with my 12 ga o/u and my son's first shotgun, a Stoeger Jr Condor in 20 ga. Both cost less than a grand together.
the 12 has about 4000 rounds and still goin strong !!

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[Pfletch83]

DFG MK-1

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd369/Pfletch83/DSCF0021.jpg

[throdgrain]

https://sites.google.com/site/throdgrain/_/rsrc/1330849953410/hunting/IMG_0005.jpg

[content]

Hello friends and neighbors // I have to start with my first, a 1976 Christmas present from Dad and Mom.

I had recieved a Mossberg 12ga. pump the year before, it broke once and was sent back. Broke again and was lost by the shipper.
We got the replacement check and went to the store, for thirty dollars more a beautiful Remington 870 Wingmaster was available. Thirty dollars was a lot, more than I knew ,to a man with three kids in 1976 but when the salesman added a case of dove shells to my promise of unlimited chores for a year Dad pulled out his wallet.

Next Dove season there I was with my 870 12ga. MOD and he was still using his Marlin bolt action, 12ga. FULL. He could pull down the high ones but I still remember feeling lucky/bad/good/proud that he bought me a nice scattergun before upgradeing his own. When I mention it he just smiles and remembers spending time together doing the many "chores" I have forgotten.

My ,go to, never trade, multipurpose 1976 Remington 870 Wingmaster 12ga. with 28" VR MOD.
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Here it is set up for HD.
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Barrels for versatility 28"MOD(on shotgun pic 1),18 3/4"(on shotgun pic 2), 30" VR double bead w/ chokes], 26" cantilevered, rifled, Hastings slug

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[TXSWFAN]

Tromix 8" Saiga with a RedJacket can.

http://i43.tinypic.com/6fxfh3.jpg

[19-3Ben]

^^^^ Wow, that thing is flat out bad. (I mean bad in the good way.)

[Hunterdad]

I love my shotguns. Here's mine:

From the top

NEF SB1 20ga
Winchester 1200 20ga
H&R Pardner Pump 12ga
Stoeger 2000 Defense 12ga w/ Nordic magazine ext, 3gun gear shell holder and M1 bolt handle.
CZ 712 12ga
Verona 405-SX 12ga
Remington Wingamster 12ga

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/adam11082/2012-03-04_11-47-54_405.jpg

[PT92]

Some great pics in the thread/forum of what I lack and that is/are classic shotguns with beatiful furniture (they're on my list if gas prices ever decrease--I need a second job to pay for the gas to get to my first one:fire:). Nevertheless, here are a few of mine:

Saiga 12:
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt163/markewall/1243281737342.jpg

Remington 1187P:
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt163/markewall/1243284443703.jpg

Mossberg 500:
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt163/markewall/M500A.jpg

-Cheers

[tahoe2]

any Sporting Clays, Upland Specials, or Turkey guns, out there.
I use my stackbarrel for clays & upland, but have never been gobbler huntin,
that's on my bucket list !!

[oneounceload]

My main sporting gun - just won a two day tourney (in my class) with it this weekend:

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk308/oneounceload/DondGti009.jpg

A Browning Gti with 200,000 rounds through it and still going strong - not bad for a $1000 gun that is 17 years old

32" barrels, 8.25#, Briley extended chokes

[PT92]

My main sporting gun - just won a two day tourney (in my class) with it this weekend:

A Browning Gti with 200,000 rounds through it and still going strong - not bad for a $1000 gun that is 17 years old

32" barrels, 8.25#, Briley extended chokes

Congrats on your tourney!

Wow that baby looks mighty pretty despite seeing that much action--true testament to both its fine workmanship/mechanics and your upkeep.

-Cheers

[EvilGenius]

http://agreensmudge.smugmug.com/Other/SmugShots/i-LL4GZ2N/0/L/smugshot4693035-L.jpg

Brand spankin new. My first and I've yet to get out and shoot anything with it.

[PT92]

Brand spankin new. My first and I've yet to get out and shoot anything with it.

Very nice indeed--I recommend either some clays, melons, 2-liter bottles etc. as tons of fun lies ahead!

-Cheers

[EvilGenius]

Very nice indeed--I recommend either some clays, melons, 2-liter bottles etc. as tons of fun lies ahead!

-Cheers
I plan on shooting lots of clays with it, but I did chose a pump for a good all arounder. Just gotta get out there and get to it.

[forindooruseonly]

This is the only shotgun of mine that I've photographed. AyA.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a263/Forindooruseonly/AyAResized1.jpg

[oneounceload]

Nice Aya - is that a No. 2?

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Hello friends and neighbors // forindooruseonly, All the photos(especially the revolvers) you have posted so far have made me drool.

After seeing the quality of your colllection and the quality of your photos, I'd love to see more of the shotguns.

[content]

Hello friends and neighbors // oneounceload fantastic win, glad to hear an older gun with an experienced shooter still has a chance.

Have you been competing long? 200,000 rounds must take a while.
I just found out our local gun club"s shotgun range is open to the public. Good times are a commin! (15min away, I normally drive an hour to shoot SG.)

[huntsman]

16 gauge Fulton that I killed a lot of birds with in the 20 years I owned it.

[forindooruseonly]

Nice Aya - is that a No. 2?

Thank you! Yes it is.

forindooruseonly, All the photos(especially the revolvers) you have posted so far have made me drool.

After seeing the quality of your colllection and the quality of your photos, I'd love to see more of the shotguns.

Thanks content, you've got quite the collection yourself. I've noticed my taste runs close to yours in classic older guns. Next time I drag out the camera I'll get some photographs of some other shotguns. I generally just do handguns cause they're easy lol.

[TXSWFAN]

Benelli M1014 14".

http://i40.tinypic.com/2yys1us.jpg

[PT92]

Hello friends and neighbors // oneounceload fantastic win, glad to hear an older gun with an experienced shooter still has a chance.

Have you been competing long? 200,00 rounds must take a while.
I just found out our local gun club"s shotgun range is open to the public. Good times are a commin! (15min away, I normally drive an hour to shoot SG.)

You know, I used to think the same thing in how can anyone shoot so many rounds even in competitive shooting, that is until I started shooting clays several years ago. If you want to be the best, you really do have to go through boxes and boxes of ammo on an exponential level. Think about it in the extreme sense of an example. If someone shot 500 rounds of trap per day every day for one year, that's 200K of ammo in one year. Again, an exteme example but I can see how a serious trap shooter could go through that kind of ammo quicker than the average person would think.

-Cheers

[oneounceload]

TRAP shooter!?!?!?!? THAT can get you SHOT!!!!!!! :D

Have you been competing long? 200,00 rounds must take a while.

I shoot sporting clays and have had that gun for 17 years. That averages out to about 1,000 per month. I was shooting league one night a week, plus sporting every weekend, sometimes they were 200 bird shoots - running a flat of 250 a week through a gun can happen real quick while you're not watching.

Example - that tournament this weekend alone was a flat of shells, and today I just shot 5 rounds of 5-stand and FITASC, which was a total of 7 boxes, so 250 + 175 = 425 in the last four days. If I had entered all of the other competitions at the two day shoot, I would have shot at least 500 rounds in that alone

Or course, my shoulder - which has torn cartilage in it, is letting me know today to take some days off..............;)

[PT92]

Benelli M1014 14".

http://i40.tinypic.com/2yys1us.jpg
That is a thing of beauty! Is it difficult to go through the "I can have a 14'' barrel" shotgun hoops?

-Cheers

[oneounceload]

TXSWFAN -

With that short of a stock, don't you bump your nose with your thumb?

I use anywhere from 14.5 to 15.25" LOP depending on the gun and the shape of the stock

[Furncliff]

Ithaca SXS 16 ga c. 1920's ?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6623877511_3ab58ac0dc_b.jpg

My only shotgun at the moment. My wife gave it to me 35 years ago. I've got my eye out for a 20ga to teach my daughter with.

[TXSWFAN]

Is it difficult to go through the "I can have a 14'' barrel" shotgun hoops?

Not in Texas.

With that short of a stock, don't you bump your nose with your thumb?

The stock is adjustable. It's in its shortest position in the pic.

[*NOVA*]

Mossberg 500 with Surefire light and SpecOps recoil suppression stock

[win71]

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w140/win71/008.jpg
Parker 2 barrel set, 12ga.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w140/win71/AYA002.jpg
AYA 20ga.

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Hello friends and neighbors // Tahoe2- How does your son like shotgunning?

Nice pair of clay busters, you must be proud/glad to have him beside you learning the "tricks". I can't wait for my nephews and neices to get interested.

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Hello friends and neighbors // oneounceload- Respect to your passion, I have no doubt winning a tournament is well worth chancing a sore shoulder!

I've never made it possible to shoot that much shotgun or centerfire rifle but can easily see how it can be done.

[oneounceload]

Win71 - nice bird guns! I don't get to see too many two barrel Parkers that aren't the Reproduction ones. Is that AyA a number 2 also?. Awesome!

[win71]

I think the AYA is a #2. Actually, I went to the factory in Eibar for the sole purpose of buying a detachable side lock 20 ga. They didn't have much in the way of completed inventory on the premises and this one fit real well so I bought it. It's been carried and shot a lot. Note the lack of bluing at the balance point on the barrels.

You might have a clue on the Parker. It was one of those original owner died deals. I'm not sure why but both sets of barrels are choked the same only in reverse. The longer set is the normal right=modified, left=full. The shorter set, is right= full, left= modified.

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Hello friends and neighbors // forindooruseonly-- you said it , handguns are much easier to photograph than longguns.

I've been wanting to have more than a simple inventory pic of this one for a while so I tried a few pics.
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Winchester Model 1897, 12ga., 2 3/4" smokeless / U.S. Flambing Bomb
Military use:
Philippine -American War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Produced 1897 - 1957 (long after the model 12 way available)

When used in the trenches during the WWI, the Germans feared the 1897 so much they tried to declare the use of the 1897 "against the laws of war". When this failed the Germans stated anyone captured with an 1897 would be severely punished.

Some Winchester 1897s were put to use shooting German grenades like skeet to deflect or explode them.

I have read the U.S. and Flambing Bomb were added after rearsenal in the 1920s.

Mine has been outfited with a Model 97, 26" Mod, Brush barrel. My uncle remembers carrying a similar shotgun on guard duty.

Did I mention the "SlamFire" capability? Nice HD option.;)

[oneounceload]

Win71 - two great folks for repairs or parts for your AyA if you don't already know them:

New England Custom Gun, (NECG) - an importer of AyA, and

Dale Tate at Camanche Hills in California - also an authorized repair center, he makes custom guns on the AyA actions

[win71]

I did not have those two sources. I've book marked them.

I hunt a lot with the AYA. Although it is a very well made, well fitted, and very easy to point gun, it is for me a really good tool. If I were in my 40's I may have it at least re-blued. I'm in my late 60's and I think I will simply keep hunting with it and my eight year old GSP.

Some day my son or maybe my grand son will be able to look, hold, and shoot an old worn out looking shotgun and think about me hunting with it along with my old tired out dog, 30 or 40 years from now.

[Stevie-Ray]

Mossberg 930 SPX. Fun fun fun

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/GitchiManitou/100_0989.jpg?t=1300996829

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Hello friends and neighbors // Stevie Ray, looks like a fun day with some serious hardware.

We worked on the deer stands and a few trails today then sighted in our shotguns for Turkey season, April 1st.

I could not resist breaking out the old 1897 after taking the pics and cleaning it up.

Here is a pic of me shooting 4 rounds AFAP, too much fun indeed.
Grey box, shell is on the ground ,red boxes, shell is in the air.
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My friends have come up with the name "Rolling Thunder" for "Slamfire".
They enjoyed it as much or more than I did.
Of course I got to enjoy shooting and shareing a few of their "toys" too.

[forindooruseonly]

Hey content - that's a good pic of that 1897's action. It looks like it's got some character! I've wanted a military shotgun for a while now, but haven't stumbled upon the right one yet.

[content]

The Flambing Bomb stirs my heart.
A military shotgun that helped beat back the Germans and others at face to face ranges is ... well thought of, as are the folks that wielded them. Folks just like you and me.

The fact it still works great is a bonus.

Thanks for noticing I got lucky with the camera too.

[XD 45acp]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ATAShooter/win122.jpg

[PT92]

The Flambing Bomb stirs my heart.
A military shotgun that helped beat back the Germans and others at face to face ranges is ... well thought of, as are the folks that wielded them. Folks just like you and me.

The fact it still works great is a bonus.

Thanks for noticing I got lucky with the camera too.
Amen to that and hats off to the art of American Ingenuity! The previous post gave me the urge to re-brush up on my 'scatter-gun history' so to speak:

http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/winchester-model-1897-riot-shotgun/

Definitely a few ICONIC American designed weapons that irrefutably and advantageously changed the face of two world wars with the Winchester playing a key role in WWI and the BAR towards the end of it but primarily in WWII--Of course, I would have felt much more secure with a 1911 strapped on my belt!

-Cheers

[content]

Thanks for the link, the Professionals is one of my all time favorite movies, the added 1897 info was great.

[content]

Hello friends and neighbors // Here is a T Barker to go along with those Parkers.
Belgian , made for Sears around 1907.
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Don't be fooled into thinking the T Barker is a Parker, by the wear on these old hardware store coach guns.

Utilitarian shotgun and part of our history, I like them. This one locks up nice and tight but I doubt I'll ever shoot it.

[303tom]

O well, I guess.............

[PT92]

Wow--This 'vintage' stuff is making want to go sell one of my 'black-guns' and pick me up one or two classics;).

-Cheers

[IMTHDUKE]

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/imthduke/GUNS/SDC13203.jpg

[mesinge2]

Mossy 500 persuader:

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc401/mesinge2/My%20heaters/My12GaugeMossberg500Persuader3.jpg


Mossy 3.5" magnum 535 Field:

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc401/mesinge2/My%20heaters/My12GA35InchMossberg535ATSField2-1.jpg

Franchi Arms 3" 20 GA:

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc401/mesinge2/My%20heaters/My20GA3InchAmericanArmsFranchi.jpg

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Hello friends and neighbors // 303Tom- outstanding pieces of history, I wish to find a Trench barrel for my 1897.

Here is a well used High Standard.164004164003
A Charlotte,N.C. Police Crusier Riot Shotgun from the 1970s (74, I think) complete with multiple clamp marks and "what I've been told" is metal migration on the receiver due to the electronic lock. ( Has anyone seen this before,pic 2?)

[content]

Hello friends and neighbors // I like the Black shotgun too, as long as its an 870 Tactical.:evil::D
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[Centurian22]

I don't have a picture to post yet, but my current favorite (and only shotgun I own for the moment) is an Ithaca 37 12 guage 2 3/4" deerslayer with fiberoptic front sight. Though I have eventual plans as finances allow to purchase a Mossberg 500 or Maverick 88 for a pump and if money is no issue a Benneli or Saiga semi-auto.

[wlewisiii]

I'll play:

My Stevens 315/"Ranger". IIUC, it's from the mid-20's & was sold by Sears. 30" barrels, 12 gauge, 2 3/4", full/full:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JibprFMI8-8/TzBAjHdlOLI/AAAAAAAAEGA/UmhzmqYZCpc/s640/P2060282.jpg

For it's age & original cost, I like the color case hardening:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kK7aVs2Kx9c/TzBACYxSB6I/AAAAAAAAEFw/RWOtrRYA-yk/s640/P2060280.jpg

My other shotgun is my 1957 Ithaca 37. 28", 16 gauge, Modified:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8zmDq_nWTs0/T5V1r77UZFI/AAAAAAAAETM/jusmcFAZ8tA/s800/P4230504.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PXhggKUN1Zc/T5V1zuVtbHI/AAAAAAAAETU/AoKUUlhPGLE/s800/P4230505.jpg

Perhaps, someday, I'll be in a position to add a pair of Winchesters to these (a 12 & a 21 :cool: ) but in the meantime, these will do me nicely.

[Centurian22]

Nice to see another Ithaca. You've got me beat by 17 years mine was born in '74.