Whatcha dove huntin' with this year??

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An NEF could be hard on the shoulder where I hunt. Lots of birds, lots of shooting.
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I'm not real recoil shy. I once shot 27 10 gauge slugs off a rest in about 30 minutes . we were sighting in a n.e.f. 10 gauge slug gun. I wish some one besides federal made 10 gauge slugs my current 10 ga. won't keep federal slugs on a paper plate past 25 yards
 
I might get a slug barrel for my new 10 when it gets here. Only 60 bucks from NEF, but I ain't sure I'm man enough to bench it. ROFLMAO! I want that 24" turkey barrel, comes with a 30 dollar extra full choke for 75 bucks or so. I could put the modified in it and take it goose hunting locked up in the top trunk of my motorcycle. That's the neat thing about NEF, very strong guns and dirt cheap.

My friend's boy shot one in 12 one year the first day and went to an 870 for the rest of the weekend. His shoulder was pretty beat up, LOL. Even the 20 gauge I bought for my kid kicked like hell. She preferred shooting my 12 gauge Winchester 1400, less recoil, much easier on the shoulder. The things are just too light. That 10 weighs 9 lbs, sorta breaks the mold. I'm glad, though, cause I wouldn't wanna shoot it if it was as light as the 12s. JEEEESSSSUS! LOL Of course, I do have a Past recoil shield I could wear if I shot one on doves, might help.
 
10 gauge slugs benched?? That makes my back hurt just thinking about it.
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I've never shot slugs in mine,(BPS) but I did shoot it 34 times one morning for a 20 bird limit of Snow Geese. (LOL) I had to use my left hand to adjust the rearview mirror for the ride home. (SLUGS!!!) I'd contract that zero job out.:what:
 
Bought a little20 ga 870 Express Magnum, second hand last year after dove season, and didn't get a chance
to see how it handled. Guess I'll find out this weekend.
Shooting the WW Special 100 round Winchester 7-1/2's shouldn't cause much trauma to the shoulder. My old
12 ga thumper seems to hang around the safe a lot more these days. Even more so if your a bad shot , 50 rounds in the dove feilds isn't odd for me and I usually I wimp out before I limit out , so this little 20 will be a respite!
 
Yeah, where I grew up, skeeters could carry you off and eat you alive. You sometimes needed a blood transfusion after an afternoon hunt. LOL They're bad all along the coast, but up the coast where there's lots of live oak woods, they just seem worse. Clute, Texas even has a mosquito festival celebrating the state bird. LOL
 
Mine will be a mossberg 88 in 12 ga, with a pachmayer slip-on recoil pad, and probably cheap Winchester #7s. And, a MK2 in .22LR for the single (standing) birdies.
 
If your Doves are like our pigeons, then my Miroku 28g.
Unless the silly buggers sit 100 yards out in the farmers field eating his crops, then the rimfire get an outing.

Neil. :)
 
In the mid 80s I asked my neighbor and friend if he would sell me his belgian A5 which he had stored in his basement but did not use any more. He said it meant too much to him to part with.
20 years later when he was 80 ;as he was dying of cancer in the hospital he called me and asked me to come see him. When I did he told me he wanted to give me that gun on one condition-that I think of him every time I use it.
EVERY opening day is reserved for one gun only for me.
 
In the mid 80s I asked my neighbor and friend if he would sell me his belgian A5 which he had stored in his basement but did not use any more. He said it meant too much to him to part with.
20 years later when he was 80 ;as he was dying of cancer in the hospital he called me and asked me to come see him. When I did he told me he wanted to give me that gun on one condition-that I think of him every time I use it.
EVERY opening day is reserved for one gun only for me.
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Priceless!!!
 
preachnhunt, brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.

I don't have a magical gun like that, myself. Maybe I will someday, but for the moment, I figure that my oldest friends won't ever die. Too ornery (and simultaneously too happy) for that.:)

Anyway, I'm leaning towards the 1926 Lefever 16 Gauge SxS I got earlier this year for 235 bucks. Finally, after extensive work with a sander, got the butchered old stock set up so it fits me. Don't know whose it was 82 years ago, but I'm sure he'd be happy to see it shot still.
 
"Kick it old school" can take on a whole new meaning with some of those old guns.:)

Some have a lot of stock drop and hard buttplates, and are famous for pounding the shoulder.
 
Hope my shoulder is aching on Tuesday...

I'll be using the Browning Superposed 12 ga. that Dad finally let me hang on to. My 3 boys will be shooting a BPS 12, Nova 12, and Ithaca 37 in 20 ga.
That's all we've got in the safe...
 
The Wingmaster

Although I've never hunted with this gun, it's downed many a sporting clay! I just love "old school" guns!!!!!!

I'll be out there with a 30-30 levergun for deer season, too!
 
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