In Defense of Pumpguns....

[Brian Dale]

As some of you've read in other threads, I bought a 1956 Wingmaster a year ago for $140. The gun cycles with as much friction and roughness as an early summer breeze wafting across a toddler's cheek. The trigger's good. There was an Ithaca 37 at the same gun show, looking for a home at $150. I'd foolishly taken along too little cash to buy both.

You guys keep passing out the pump-shotgun Kool-Aid and prices for these treasures will not stay like this. '97s and Model 12s have been climbing for quite some time; 870s and 37s are still sleepers.


What are you trying to do here?


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[johnmcl]

In Defense Of... An Analogy

Hi Dave,

Sometimes we write for ourselves and sometimes we write for others. I can guess which this is for you.

When I read this thread, and then look back in abstract, this is like "In Defense of Beer"

1. People drink champagne, wine and beer. Some do all three. While those with champagne often sneer, we beer drinkers still enjoy our brew.

2. There's times when beer is ok to have, and other when it is great. It can always do the job though.

3. Nothing slides (down) like a cold beer. The action is something a champagne drinker can't connect with.

4. Our first is usually a beer.

5. A day with the boys and beer is always fun.

6. While we like the new brews, the old classics have our mouths watering.

Enough analogies for now, I could on for much longer.

On the merits of your O/U to your 870, I so understand. My 870TB has a new home, she don't never want to go back.....

 

[Dave McCracken]

Everyone's entitled to an opinion. Mine include the idea that a repeater that lasts longer than a bad reputation, is modular so one can mix and match parts for a given mission and costs less than a week's pay is worthy of owning.

Are the pumps always the best choice? Of course not.

Are pumps often a good to great choice? Heck, yes.

Right you are, John. Enjoy.....

 

[ArmedBear]

a repeater that lasts longer than a bad reputation, is modular so one can mix and match parts for a given mission and costs less than a week's pay is worthy of owning

But Dave, what I'm still trying to figure out is this: who ever said otherwise?

 

[Virginian]

Of all the guns I have owned, there are only two I truly have regretted selling. One was a Remington 870. I have never shot another gun as well as I did that one. I have bought 3 others, but the magic was lost somewhere along the line.

 

[kentucky_smith]

I never cared much for pumpguns. Dad and Papaw's attitudes were a pump was what you got when you couldn't afford an auto, like an 1100 or an A5. My first shotgun was a 1300 and I got rid of it as soon as I could get a Beretta. Several iterations of Beretta and Browning auto's and OUs and I was a pump snob. Shouldered 870s and 500s felt more like clunky clubs than smooth sticks.

Tried a couple different Ithaca 37s, very nice, but my left arm just didn't feel right stuck way out there.


Until I discovered a 16 guage model 12. It reformed me greatly. What a great little lithe boomstick. Now I've got a couple of 12s and loving it.

 

[Ash]

I have a Valmet double, a Savage 720 auto, and several pump actions. They all work for me, though I still tend to go back to the pumps for the duck blind. Oddly, I favor the Savage for rabbits.

Ash

 

[sm]

You guys keep passing out the pump-shotgun Kool-Aid and prices for these treasures will not stay like this. '97s and Model 12s have been climbing for quite some time; 870s and 37s are still sleepers.

<crosses fingers>

Well only an idiot would have a wood-n-blue gun in the first place! I mean come on people! This is 2008!

Them old guns are antiquated- do you take a horse and buggy to work? Off course not.

Oh is is bad enough some folks buy this fru-frue, goody-two-shoe gun stuff, we have chillren starving on Pluto, and folks spend enough money on one gun, that can only hold two shells that could feed all them chillren for 10 yrs!

Semi-Auto in them antiquated designs...bunch of gall-durned wimps! They got pills to build you up if a wittle recoil hurts.

Pumping a gun...are you folks nuts! That is wasted motion and goes against S.L. Oth's Theory of Complacency.!

Get with the times people!

Trade in them old antiquated wood-blue guns , all of them!
Revolvers, 1911s, BHPS, , Semi-Auto pistols and shotguns like 1400, 1100, A5, Berettas, and especially them 97's, 12s, and 870s.

Synthetic stocks, black , takes a magazine it where it is at!
Handguns rifle and shotgun, if it don't look Tactical it ain't worth spit.

We have indoor plumbing folks, and one does even have to use hands to flush a toilet , turn on water, or even get a paper towel - electronic eye does that for you.

*shakes head* Some people just don't get it!

 

[chas08]

Well only an idiot would have a wood-n-blue gun in the first place! I mean come on people! This is 2008!

(LOL) "Whew...Glad to know thats all thats wrong with me"

Like my wise ole Pappy always told me, "Son...even ugly wood is purtier than purty plastic"

 

[sm]

CSA

Curmudgeon Shooter's Association.

What do you folks think?

I don't think the Cowboy Shooter's Association would mind us using that acronym.
Me being a born and raised Southern Boy I know I darn sure don't mind CSA being used...heck we had that acronym first. *rebel*

Pump Guns, and other guns : I gotta plan, we all talk down the guns we like, tout the new and fangled, get folks to trade in them old ones for new ones.

Old Fuff? Where is that old fart anyway? He is one of us...his chapter is the Cave Shooters Association...Arizona folks are Arizona folks. *razz*


Pump Guns suck!
One has to have a 40 watt Plasma something-or-another so you can orbit from Nuke 'em ...

I still cannot find where Planet Nuke'em is supposed to be, teh Intrawebz sez there is supposed be one ...*wink*


Use Enough Curmudgeon

 

[Brian Dale]

Pump Guns, and other guns : I gotta plan, we all talk down the guns we like, tout the new and fangled, get folks to trade in them old ones for new ones.

Orbit from Nuke 'em. Those old guns: Hmph--it's the homely way to be sure.

I'm in, if I may.

Pump guns suck.

 

[sm]

Breaker one-nine this here the Wooden Duck-

Someone get a that Pump truck in between the Reloader Truck and that Sporting Clay Jockey , and get that Trap truck to quit mooning the Skeet Truck...act respectable, this here a high class convoy...moon the toll booth as we crash on through doing nine-eight.

Hammer down, we ain't gonna pay no toll...

 

[Oldnamvet]

And it isn't much past 5 PM yet.

 

[Harley Quinn]

The over and under folks like the way they swing and hold on target because of the extra weight out front.

The pump is a heck of a good piece of equipment in its day, seems like the semi auto is the way to go now for some folks.

I have a few of um and they have not been used much of late, Hmm wonder why

I have gone thru stages and now I am into semi autos. I like the way they sound in a room when you slam it shut with one in the snout

HQ

 

[sm]

I have gone thru stages and now I am into semi autos. I like the way they sound in a room when you slam it shut with one in the snout

Ka-Ching!

*Grin*

Ker-Chunk and Ka-Ching went onto field
To put the clays to slaughter
Ker-Thunks three kids , Single, Over and Side
Joined up the squad - and one is that sexy daughter

Now the on-lookers noticed all the clays were dusted
On doubles noticed a drop stock - remount for second bird
Pumps, Semi's and Break Actions will bust 'em
Not a new thang going on - or haven't you heard?