I associate _____with shotguns.

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The first firearm I put hands on was a shotgun.

I was probably 13 or so. A 12ga 1300 defender loaded with some bright red colored shells of the "Cooper" or "Coopers" brand (the name stuck with me, but I never saw that brand again). The way I fired My First Shot Ever is memorable and makes me laugh now:
Never having fired more than a BB gun before, I was quite intimidated by the fabled "knock-you-down-on-your-butt" recoil I was told of, so I stood with my back to a tree & planted the stock against the tree, under my armpit. The idea was that the tree would take the full "kick". Racked the action, and hesitantly fired it into the green yonder. Did this for 2 shots and then realized that the thing wouldn't actually knock me over if I put it at my shoulder. Oh, and the smell of burnt powder...

Also, the thrill, rush, and surprise of lightning fast reflex action shouldering & shooting quail as they take off at your feet as you walk in knee tall grass. Very visceral.
 
My head coming clean off the stock.

Old boy has since passed, a Air Force Jockey, neatest fella, great shooter - still one had to watch his pranks.

Paybacks are something else, I had tossed him some popcorn loads while out dove shooting and it was funny to see him shoot, and no doves fall...he could shoot doves...

So I am shooting with him and my lady partner I worked with.
8 boxes and I am running straight, and I am on station 8 taking the last two shots, except I need another shell.

So I chambered m shell, and he tosses me one and I am focused on shooting, I never looked at the shell except to catch it, and then feed it without looking.

Now I shoot fast, just call shoot, call and shoot.

"Pull!" - bang - dead bird
"Pull!" BOOM! My head come clean off the stock and I did break the bird....

"Oh, sorry, that must have been one of my Turkey loads I gave you"- Old boy said with that oh so neat smirk he had.

He had been waiting to get me back.
His Turkey load was a good one, 2 3/4" shell, 1 3/8 oz , of #5 copper plated hard shot.

Folks on the porch heard the boom...
My lady partner jumped
My head come clean off the stock... but I ran 200/200 and that 200th was a doozy!


We called a Truce on each other, then decided we would make a great team pulling stuff on others....

And what a team we were...*evil grin*
 
I associate _____with shotguns.
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The Winchester single shot my eldest cousin passed on to me, the one grand daddy taught him to hunt with.

Busting clays at informal get togethers that B would bring me along on. B was a friend from church, a young guy fresh out of college, taking time away from his fiancée to mentor a teenage me.

Shooting B's SKB auto, then later my own 870.

A morning on a dove field in South Ga. with my older cousins, no one downing a single bird, but everyone having a great time still.

The look on a kid's face at the shop where I work, when we show him that youth gun that fits him. His eyes lighting up further when dad or grand dad is buying that shotgun for him, his first gun of his very own.
 
"anything that moves in my back yard"

"shooting trap and breaking clays one-handed, from the hip with a single shot 20 guage."
 
Start of the day, shotgun under my arm, cold fingers around a hellishly hot cup of coffee, with a lively Lab just begging to get started...my eyes are hardly open.

End of the day, shotgun leaning up in the corner, in a leather chair with my feet up, warm fingers around a cold drink, the Lab groaning in his sleep in front of the fireplace...my eyes are hardly open.



Len
 
How about coming back to the cabin for breakfast cooked by the guy that was too hungover to hunt. Okay, maybe not the best one... that is till the next year when you get to remind him about last year's "problem".

The guy that says "that sure was a big slug for such a small deer or

I can throw that deer in the back of the pick-em-up but we'll have to throw a tire over it to keep it from blowing out.
 
Earning two (and only two) merit badges at my first Boy Scout summer camp - Shotgun Shooting and Rifle Shooting.
 
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