MacAR
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I have nice shotguns, and I have "beaters". My BRNO side-lock sxs gets taken to the dove field every year, and on a quail hunt or two. It has a few scratches and scars, and probably isn't worth what it once was but I don't really care. It's a great gun, shoots amazingly, and is perfect for flying stuff. Not in the "beater" class at all, unlike my old Baikal IZH-43. Plain old boxlock sxs, choked full and modified. In pretty fair shape, but I'm not afraid to drag it through the brush or toss it up a creek bank and climb up after it. I've been know to hold down fence wire and knock tree limbs out of the way with it; it's been through rain, snow, mud, etc. It gets cleaned when I think about it (not often enough) but it still shoots! Same story with my Model 12's: I have one really nice skeet gun, one decent 16 gauge squirrel gun, and one old mismatched beater that I wouldn't care to toss across a creek or up a ditchbank. If I use my skeet gun, it gets cleaned every time; matter of fact it gets wiped down sometimes when it hasn't been used. Same goes with the 16 gauge; if the old beater M12 gets used it might get wiped down before I lean it in it's corner behind the kitchen door. Or it might not, but I really don't care as long as it works when I need it. I guess my point is here, as it was in the other topic, is if you're going to own them, use them. Don't abuse any firearm, I don't care if it's a $100 Savage or a $100k Purdey; but don't be afraid to use them either.
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