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Everything. The hunts that call for double shotguns are invitational and you're expected to wear tweed and sometimes you'll even have hors d'ouvres and champagne served to your pass/post on a silver platter by a waiter wearing tuxedo (for real, no kidding here). On regular upland grouse hunts I...

Fortunately most "dress code" hunts don't involve walking. With some luck you'll have a loader provided to your pass so the only time you even pick up one of your guns is when the drive starts and something might flush... 🧐

Depending on the dress code of the hunt. I don't mind taking my Sauer & Sohn 1942 boxlock out every now and then (and I got my wife a fully engraved Mts111 when she got her PhD - she calls it her "handbag"), but given the choice I much prefer inertia semiautos for their practicality and fast...

I'm both a bargain and a rattletrap hunter. I love higher end guns in sad but salvageable shape for peanuts, and I have a bad habit of buying bottom shelf clearance guns every now and then, aspiring to turn them into shooters. Corona lockdown was great, I've never managed to finish as many...

$1B is enough for a thermonuclear weapon but unfortunately not for its tax stamp.

I understand the preference. I hunt grouse a lot so a lightweight shotgun is a huge plus when you walk 10+ hours a day carrying it. It takes quite a lot of practise to learn to shoot them but I wouldn't have it any other way anymore. Congratulations on the BPS, it's a quality shotgun, I hope...

Hmm? It's been quite a while since I've taken the foregrip assembly (grip + tang) off mine but I vaguely remember it might have come off once you've unscrewed the barrel. No tools required providing that you haven't overtightened anything when you've last put it together. Not really quick detach...

Unless you want to go bespoke, Negrini cases are very common for higher end rifles among my buddies and everybody seems to like them. Delfiero and Macchiavelli seem to be popular too. I'm a bit of an anomality as I travel with a Peli Storm Case, which is every bit as far from "soft" as you can get.

The consensus is that they're a top choice for all loads and shoot anything, even the lightest 7/8oz reduced recoil skeet ones.

A bit OT for this thread so I make it quick and simple: deburred and polished bolt and frame rails (fine valve grinding compound -> Mother's Mag & Aluminum -> Farecla G10), beveled/rounded the bolt lower rear edge that cocks the hammer, polished (just Mother's) recoil spring tube, bolt head...

Inertia guns respond well to polishing, deburring and smoothing. My Benellis (except for the M3) have shot 7/8oz skeet and trap loads without a hitch, the smoothest being Centro Supersport that has polished internals from the factory. And they don't mind the heaviest 2oz magnums either, anything...

Physiologically correct, yes. However the maximum "aperture" of human pupil gets smaller with age. At around 50 you're lucky to have 6mm and it's downhill from there.

As a sidenote, I warmly recommend learning the process of hand lapping a barrel. It's very straightforward once you've done it a couple of times and it's by far the best way to realize its full accuracy potential and dramatically reduce copper deposits and fouling in the future. And it more or...

I can only agree. Never had one but borrowed and shot a number of them and there's little to complain. The only thing may be their weight, they're no featherweights, but for those who don't hunt grouse ie. hand-carry the shotgun up to 10+ hours straight in rough terrain, it's not a dealbreaker...

Cosmi Superleggero SLT. I'd give my left one for one. Simply gorgeous.