1300 12 gauge : Update

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I have no idea why I felt compelled to email someone about their 1300 in 12 bore...

This gun was a "combo" gun, meaning one longer, one shorter, smooth bore barrel, wood stock and blue barrels of course.

Original owner bought two back in the day, gave one to a Son-in-Law. SIL never shot it much, and after the divorce the Wife/Daughter ended up with it and with bad memories, and all...set it back.

Current owner is a lady.
She shot a variety of guns for gun fit and all and the 1300 fit her pretty good with the gun tweaks done to fit another lady.
Looking for a deal, watching her budget and all,
This Combo 1300 is brought out and a deal is struck.

LOP is shortened a bit, Pachmayr Decelerator and a few other tweaks and it fits her as nice as her bikini.

Re: Bikini.
Well you see this 19 year old is 5' 7", blond, blue eyes, and reaaaal long legged and attractive.

Gun was ready from having tweaks , and brought out to the range.
She had been teaching kids swimming and wearing that bikini under short cuff offs and tank top.
She put on long pants, T shirt and went to town shooting this gun.

She knows correct basic fundamentals of gun fit, mounting gun to face, stance and ...recoil does not bother her.
I mean 50 slugs at one sitting and no big deal.
50 buckshot, no big deal.
200 target loads shooting skeet, no big deal.

She has felled one deer, all sorts of small game like rabbit, squirrels, filled duck limits and "geese are big honkers!" .
Doves. This gal went bonkers over dove hunting.

She knows the loads this gun, and its various choke likes, she spent time at the pattern board.

So I asked her how many rounds she had through this gun -

" I don't know how many rounds in the last year? Maybe 10,000, maybe 12,000, maybe more I would have to guess.
I just shoot the durn thing" she said

We have a running joke about her shooting with a bikini under her clothes in the summer.
She looks great in Neon Green, and matches her 12 ga shells.

She wanted to shoot another ladies 20 gauge, " Well I am wearing that Neon Yellow bikini underneath all this..."

"Okay, what new bikini for when I shoot 28 gauge?" - she asked ribbing me.

"Darlin' I don't figure it makes a lot a difference to the gun - but I'd like to see what you come up with".

This bunch I hang with just mess with each other like this...

She is so versatile with this bone stock combo 1300, and she knows this gun because it has become as one with her.


She is the one that had a old buoy from a swimming pool , rope through it, and suspended between two 55 gal drum way down yonder.
I show up and "just what in the hell are y'all doing?" - I had to ask.

Ladies were lobbing slugs at this buoy and having a big old time...
"People would think we are not normal wouldn't they?" - one asked.

"Define "normal" - what you are doing makes perfect sense to me" I replied.


Steve

 

[axeman_g]

Me thinks love is in the air...

 

[Snake Eyes]

Me thinks love is in the air...

Yeah...between Steve and the 1300!

(The last time it was age-appropriate for sm to lust after a 19 year old was, what, 1952?)

 

[axeman_g]

I was curious how someone could get 17500+ posts and still be ... how should I put this ....

It might be best for me to just back out immediately.

 

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(The last time it was age-appropriate for sm to lust after a 19 year old was, what, 1952?)

I was born in 1955.
When I was 19 it was a brunette, with hazel eyes, short mini skirt, and her car had a racing stripe on the side.

I have always assisted folks with shooting. And while I have assisted a lot of attractive young ladies, single moms, and kids...

I chose to also assist the beaten, battered, assaulted, raped, and abused ladies and kids.
Add the Physically limited from young, to old, men and women.



1300s at one time came in all 4 gauges. I started many a new shooter with a 1300 in 28 gauge back in the day.

 

[axeman_g]

sm...

I hope you understand I was pulling your leg. I will happily admit that you do more in one day for the RKBA then I do in a year.

I am just jealous and want to know how I can get that gig.

 

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axeman_g,

Re: How to get this gig.

It helps to be a over 50, sentimental , sappy, southern boy ( just one never admits to this you understand ).
Read Robert Ruark's The Old Man And The Boy , pay attention to the life lessons, ethics and all interwoven in the stories.

Then just show up at the local range with hot dogs, hamburgers, corn dogs, dog treats...
and volunteer to fix these.

And pretty funny if you eat a little dog treat bone, so that shy puppy comes over to see what you have...

While kids, and adults are eating and sipping lemonade...start reading Ruark's TOMATB out loud.

The shy puppy, and other dawgs gather at your feet, one kid with permission will come over and snuggle up to see the book as you read...

You get adopted right off the bat, and these folks were not looking to adopt anyone.

Oh, have a few boxes of .22 ctgs to give to kids, maybe some shotgun shells for give to new shooter to use...

Then someone will ask " Hey, you know anything about shotguns and all....?"

"Yeah! Remember them corn dogs with the pointy wooden sticks? Remember I suggested to save them and all?
Dats what you use to punch out the receiver pins with"

Usually this is the part some kids voices are heard " WE gonna need more corn dogs!!".



This has worked for me anyways...

 

[Ian Sean]

sm, You sir are a true Man among men...

Nice to see a fellow Ruark fan...currently re-reading "Something of Value" for the umpteenth time myself. I have an old copy of TOMATB somewhere...now it's on my to-do list to find and read that again also.

 

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If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them. -Basuto proverb


Robert Ruark used that proverb as the epigraph for his 1955 novel of Africa, Something of Value.


Steve