The 1100 it is... (she's happy, I'm happy)

[9mmMike]

Well,
Got her the 20 ga. Special Field LT with 21" fixed modified choke and two bead, vent rib barrel. English (straight) stock.
It fits her like a glove. We went out today, in the rain, and she hit more than she missed. A terrific day!
Got myself a well-used 1100 12 ga. as well. It is weird shooting a semi. It's like holding a snake. There is just way too much moving around for me. I also took my troublesome 870 and it appears (knocking wood) to be behaving. However, I did not have any of the Remington ammo with me so it may be an invalid test.
Anyhoo, the 1100 20 ga. is really sweet. We'll be going to the local club's general meeting in a few week and hopefully be clay bustin' all summer.
Yeehaa!
Mike

 

[sm]

Congratulations! Glad it worked out. Sounds like you two are going to have a ball and enjoy this summer.

Be humble and don't grumble when she out-shoots you. Instead get her to re-load the ammo for the both of you...then sneak out of ear shot, dry fire and practice swing...mum's the word...I did not suggest this...

 

[9mmMike]

........so she calls me at work Friday afternoon and says, "How about if I cut out early and we head the range? After all, it stays light pretty late..."
This after days upon days of rain.
Off we go. The weather? Perfect. The range? Empty.
I'm loading the Trius with two and she gets the high ones. I miss a low flyer with my 870 and she dusts it, after she smokes the high one!
Poor me that I must deal with this all summer!
Did I mention that I just love this gal!
Mike

 

[Jim Watson]

Congratulations, Mrs Mike.
I love happy endings; sniffle.
But it's not really the end, she will get a look at all sorts of guns as she shoots more. But don't even mention trading off her 1100.

I remember a conversation between a bystander and a woman trapshooter with engraved, gold enlaid Ljutic trapgun. (A Ljutic is kind of an industrial looking gun, with no style at all, and the engraving looked strange on it, but she had the bucks to spend.)

She was not breaking many targets and her friend said: "Miss Eula, why don't you go back to your 1100, it did not beat you up like that single barrel?" To which Miss Eula replied: "I can't, Charles (Her husband, the "Miss" is just Southern etiquette.) said if I ever gave him another 1100 to clean that he would quit taking me shooting." No hint that she could clean it herself, pay the local shop to clean it, or go shooting by herself. But it was the difference in the shooting.

Me, I have been shooting the same 1100 off and on for about 30 years. It has stayed with me while Winchesters, Brownings, and Perazzis have come and gone and a lot of others have had short looks and trials.

 

[TooTaxed]

You're a lucky man! Luckier than most, perhaps.