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Youth or Adult?
Youth allows me, and others to travel with a shotgun easier.
I can stick one in a garment bag, and nobody knows I have a shotgun going to a hotel or motel room.
Travel is something I, and others are familiar with, and I and mine traveled with shotguns often.
One gun I traveled with , was a bone stock Ithaca 37 with the 20 inch bbl.
Awerbuck travels with a double barrel shotgun.
This is easy to tote, and travel with. It is more people friendly, political climate friendly, and gun law friendly.
In some jurisdictions, breaking this gun down, as it is easy to do, is what is required to be legal in some parts of the country.
Single shot affords one the same features and benefits.
Go get a yard stick.
My H&R Youth 20 ga Single Shot, again is 36" total length.
The barrel is a fixed modified 22" , plain, with a single bead.
I am 6', and I can stand, hold that shotgun down by my side, and you cannot see I have a shotgun.
The muzzle does not touch the floor, and my hand and arm look natural ...I could be holding a pair of scissors for all anyone knows, and being safe and polite by having them in a safe hold...
I can use either hand, and have part of me concealed by a door facing, chair, sofa, kitchen breakfast bar...
I can even answer the door with this gun in hand.
I have.
UPS comes after dark, I have gun in hand, I see it is UPS and I have signed for a package with strong hand, with shotgun in weak, and the door concealing this.
If, "just a second" , I can set this behind the door, and sign and receive package.
"Caught you dust mopping the hardwood floor huh?" is exactly what UPS said when I set this shotgun behind the door.
It gets dark earlier in the winter...
He/she have delivered a package and I was using a dust mop for the hardwood floor near front door.
Perceptions...come into play, I post about perceptions...
What if?
Nobody is expected, and I am standing with a youth shotgun in hand , off to the side using a door frame to conceal and one of the ladies I know answers her door.
All hell breaks loose.
Criminals forces themselves , he shoots, she shoots her CCW.
That youth can be handed to 11 year old to watch that criminal, while attend to the mom shot.
I know, we practice this.
That 11 year old can hold that shotgun, call 911 and allow me to attend to that mom.
I might need to hold the gun and dial...
I am the one shot, the mom is attending to me...
etc.
In a chair, especially a recliner, that shotgun fits, and when I reach down for the lever, to let myself up...
I can come up with this Youth and shoot if need be.
Again, a practiced thing me and mine do.
Adult size is fine, I use these too.
If one is going to do a lot of shooting, get the adult.
Just sharing some reasons why many do get the Youth, and yes, I am to blame.
I want choke.
I have to repeat this, I want choke!
This is where I get ticked with folks taking a hack-saw to cut down a shotgun barrel, to make a "truck gun".
I want choke! My gun, and others like it pattern some of the best patterns I have patterned with pellet loads, #3 buck, and slugs.
My gun is a bone stock "kids" or "youth" shotgun.
Other folks have one because of me, and here is one real use.
19 year old daughter has one, she is attending college away from home.
She has a few gals she and parents know real well, and has hunted with it (doves, and small game) and had a lot of fun as broke college kids when these friends of the family get the portable clay thrower out and have the girls shoot, and have a picnic and ...relieves stress, fun.
She was back home, her dad had her car attended to by the dealer for some warranty work.
This car got to acting up on the way back to college, and she pulled into a hotel.
Called her dad, dad said since it was dark, to use the credit card he and mom gave her for emergencies and get a room.
She cannot get a CCW being under age 21.
She had a shotgun.
It was around 10pm when this happened, the options were discussed and she ended up having one of the other parents, being she was nearer to them, come down and get her.
Still she was safe, and the dealer was called at home and he had that car towed to another dealer in the next town.
Still for some hours, this 19 y/o lady was safe, the shotgun was just one of the tools, not the tool.
Youth allows me, and others to travel with a shotgun easier.
I can stick one in a garment bag, and nobody knows I have a shotgun going to a hotel or motel room.
Travel is something I, and others are familiar with, and I and mine traveled with shotguns often.
One gun I traveled with , was a bone stock Ithaca 37 with the 20 inch bbl.
Awerbuck travels with a double barrel shotgun.
This is easy to tote, and travel with. It is more people friendly, political climate friendly, and gun law friendly.
In some jurisdictions, breaking this gun down, as it is easy to do, is what is required to be legal in some parts of the country.
Single shot affords one the same features and benefits.
Go get a yard stick.
My H&R Youth 20 ga Single Shot, again is 36" total length.
The barrel is a fixed modified 22" , plain, with a single bead.
I am 6', and I can stand, hold that shotgun down by my side, and you cannot see I have a shotgun.
The muzzle does not touch the floor, and my hand and arm look natural ...I could be holding a pair of scissors for all anyone knows, and being safe and polite by having them in a safe hold...
I can use either hand, and have part of me concealed by a door facing, chair, sofa, kitchen breakfast bar...
I can even answer the door with this gun in hand.
I have.
UPS comes after dark, I have gun in hand, I see it is UPS and I have signed for a package with strong hand, with shotgun in weak, and the door concealing this.
If, "just a second" , I can set this behind the door, and sign and receive package.
"Caught you dust mopping the hardwood floor huh?" is exactly what UPS said when I set this shotgun behind the door.
It gets dark earlier in the winter...
He/she have delivered a package and I was using a dust mop for the hardwood floor near front door.
Perceptions...come into play, I post about perceptions...
What if?
Nobody is expected, and I am standing with a youth shotgun in hand , off to the side using a door frame to conceal and one of the ladies I know answers her door.
All hell breaks loose.
Criminals forces themselves , he shoots, she shoots her CCW.
That youth can be handed to 11 year old to watch that criminal, while attend to the mom shot.
I know, we practice this.
That 11 year old can hold that shotgun, call 911 and allow me to attend to that mom.
I might need to hold the gun and dial...
I am the one shot, the mom is attending to me...
etc.
In a chair, especially a recliner, that shotgun fits, and when I reach down for the lever, to let myself up...
I can come up with this Youth and shoot if need be.
Again, a practiced thing me and mine do.
Adult size is fine, I use these too.
If one is going to do a lot of shooting, get the adult.
Just sharing some reasons why many do get the Youth, and yes, I am to blame.
I want choke.
I have to repeat this, I want choke!
This is where I get ticked with folks taking a hack-saw to cut down a shotgun barrel, to make a "truck gun".
I want choke! My gun, and others like it pattern some of the best patterns I have patterned with pellet loads, #3 buck, and slugs.
My gun is a bone stock "kids" or "youth" shotgun.
Other folks have one because of me, and here is one real use.
19 year old daughter has one, she is attending college away from home.
She has a few gals she and parents know real well, and has hunted with it (doves, and small game) and had a lot of fun as broke college kids when these friends of the family get the portable clay thrower out and have the girls shoot, and have a picnic and ...relieves stress, fun.
She was back home, her dad had her car attended to by the dealer for some warranty work.
This car got to acting up on the way back to college, and she pulled into a hotel.
Called her dad, dad said since it was dark, to use the credit card he and mom gave her for emergencies and get a room.
She cannot get a CCW being under age 21.
She had a shotgun.
It was around 10pm when this happened, the options were discussed and she ended up having one of the other parents, being she was nearer to them, come down and get her.
Still she was safe, and the dealer was called at home and he had that car towed to another dealer in the next town.
Still for some hours, this 19 y/o lady was safe, the shotgun was just one of the tools, not the tool.