Shotgun Challenge - Yes I am calling YOU out

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At the top of Shotgun Forums is a Sticky Links to old TFL threads...
written by our own Moderator Dave McCracken.

I'll make it easy. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=2766

Dave does not know I am Calling folks out, he will find out sooner or later...

Two Catagories.

1. New Folks to Shotguns

2. Seasoned Shotgunners


What I want is YOU to find a Thread in Shotgun forum that means/ meant a lot to you.

Allowed is a thread you shared with someone that was helpful to them, or assisted them as well. You get the idea.

Yes that may mean using the Search Function, hey this is a challenge, deal with it.

All I want posted in Reply is if you are New, Seasoned , Link to post and a brief reason why that thread means what it does, how it assisted you or another.

tick tock...tick tock...tick tock... Well, what are you waiting for, the clock is ticking...


Steve

 

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Status : Reprobate

Thread : Course Review: Tactical Shotgun Stage I (Awerbuck) by Lee Lapin,

Link: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=202292&highlight=Awerbuck

Reason :

I have always wanted to take Awerbuck in a training class, especially shotguns. I learned a lot from my friend Lee Lapin's attending. In fact I was estactic when I heard he was going to attend, and could not wait to hear all about this Awerbuck Shotgun class.

I confirmed some beliefs I have held, learned new things, and Lee's Review covered equipment, how to prepare, what to take, what to expect and so much more.

I have passed that link to a lot of folks, and many are not THR members.

Steve

 

[Spinner]

Alright, I'll play

Status: Long time newbie

Thread: There are so many!!! Anything by Dave McC, sm, Lee Lapin, Trapper Ready, etc, etc. I think the one that meant the most to me was encouragement for a newbie on the other side of the world who tried trap for the first time.

Link: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=92371

Reason: A complete newb from the other side of the world was given encouragement and advice from seasoned shotgunners who have been asked the same dumb questions time and time again but who have the patience and persistance to explain and encourage and advise.

The help was appreciated then, and its still appreciated today

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[Old John]

Easy Challenge for me

Here Ya are...........

Best thread ever, for me.................

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=182701&highlight=Single+barrel

It brought back a LOT of Childhood Memories.
It told a really good story.
I hope you enjoy it.
Take care........
Old John

 

[IDriveB5]

Well, after some thought, I switched forums and broke out the search tool...

I would consider myself a new shotgunner with lots to learn.

Here is my nearly-year-old thread that I consider to be one of the more meaningful threads to me. Not because of the subject matter, but because of the response from forum members...

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182912

Thanks

 

[Fred Fuller]

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Can't really point to a single thread- the whole forum is too valuable to me to settle on any one thing. I came here back when a couple of years, looking for Dave McC, after haunting all sorts of net fora for a couple of months someone finally told me he was moderating here.

I had met Dave on Randy Cain's (moderator) shotgun forum at a now-defunct board called GunSpot back in the late 1990s. I had some bad health problems for a while and went missing myownself, and when i got back to a keyboard GunSpot was no more and Dave had vanished too. So I went lookin' and found him here.

Been making a nuisance of myself ever since...

lpl/nc

 

[striker3]

Status: Long time Beginner

I have been thinking about this since you first posted and cannot come up with one single thread to point out. For someone like me who did not know much about shotgun use, there is just a wealth of information from so many people that I cannot single out one particular example.

While I have been hunting dove and quail since I was a young kid, there was nobody to teach me the finer points. In my family you went and bought a cheap shotgun, bought the winchester game loads, and went out to hunt. I was never taught patterning to find the ideal load, never taught the finer points of defensive loads, or that you should adjust the weapon to fit you. Things that, now that I know of them, are all to much common sense, but they had never occured to me before. I have now learned about that stuff through this site, as well as a heck of a lot more.

It is funny how I knew this stuff with rifles and pistols, but never extrapolated it over to shotguns

 

[dmarbell]

One of my favorites...

I'm new into shooting again. Hunted for many years, even shot at passing ducks before school. I used to miss the first day of hunting season in NC, called in sick. I was a good student, so my dear Mother would fib a little on the note she sent the teachers! I guess there are worse things a teenager can do than go hunting (and fishing), using skills taught by a loving Father.

So, anyway, here is a thread that "allowed" me to buy two guns to explore my new shooting passion - for clay games. If I hadn't run across this site and threads like this one, I might have listened to other advice and spent a couple thousand bucks on an over/under. I might still do that later, but for $380 I bought an almost new in box 1991 model Wingmaster and for $250 I bought a well-used 870TB.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=64321

Danny

 

[Marshall]

Seasoned, but this helped.

Slugs 101

 

[Dave McCracken]

I don't have a favorite, though there's plenty I like. Lots of the ones I like are from people I've taught. Others are from folks I've met in Cyberspace, like Lee, SM, TR, PJR, Kudu and a host of others.

Keep it up, folks. This is both the finest learning resource for Shotgunning on the Net and a fine circle of friends....

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

My favorites always have Sadie in them. Oh, wait, I started all those.

Girl's gonna be a shotgunner.