Pale Rider
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Now if you have several of those to chose from get one with a smooth bore slug barrel and adjustable rifle type sights on it. This is actually cylinder bore which is what people used to kill everything for a hudred years. You can hunt every thing with it, rabbits, squirrells, birds and deer. I've shot skeet with one before and didn't have the lowest score on the squad.
I saw this post from Jack Ryan in another thread and it reminded me of a quick story.
My folks are from a small town in ohio that has a trap shoot every friday night. When we would visit on weekends we could see the lights from my grandparent's house, and on Saturday morning we'd go with grandpa to pick up all the un broken clays. The day I was old enough to shoot out there couldn't come fast enough.
My dad isn't into shooting and guns like I am but when I was around 16 we took the only two shotguns in our house at the time, his 870 he bought when he was 16 and my great grandpa's winchester model '97 (they have one in the Patton museum ha!) out to ohio for the weekend with intentions to shoot.
We went out on friday night and it was mostly a crowd of men in their 40s and 50s with nice over under expensive trap guns. The looks we got when we put our guns in the rack outside the main building were priceless. So we got to shooting and to everyone's amazement the little city boy with the ol' knuckle-buster out shot most who were there That shotgun is a pain the the a$$ but it served me well that night (considering it was only the second time I'd ever shot trap.)
It's nothing amazing but it's the first shooting "feat" that I was ever really proud of, and the first time I felt truly confident and capable with a gun in my hand. It really helped spark my continued interest in shooting in general. Anyone else remember that first moment for them?
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