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Almost every Browning trap O/U I’ve been around has been ported. I’m not a fan. Shooting doubles maybe it has a purpose.

Thanks for the replies, there are a bunch on gunbroker but most have seen some rough use, as expected. I’m looking for one that has decent metal but needs the wood refinished. I see most of them used maple or birch, many of the older ones used walnut. I guess I’m looking for one that was put...

Jebus, round knob and vent rib, I didn’t know I was sharing this site with such a classy crowd.

I’m always on the lookout for something to fiddle with in the shop during the winter. I like to shoot trap with old shotguns and am looking for a bolt action. Seems the Marlin goose guns bring a premium, must be a collector thing. Anyone have any advise on what to look for ? I see the JC...

I put my game bag down on the porch and we had a rooster getting chased by the house cat.

My 37 is picky with modern shell bases. Seems the steel bases don’t extract as well as the older brass ones, my 37 was made in the late 1940s so maybe newer ones are better. I sent it in to Diamond Gunsmithing, they helped it but there is only one shell I can shoot trap with. If I had to grab...

Where does my BPS, 870, 37 and model 12 fit in ? Oh, and the JC Higgins model 20 ?

Yes, this is me. Probably more often I take a shot at a bird wounded by a companion if it flies past me. Anyone who shoots trap knows a falling target is a difficult shot.

I’m not totally sure, certainly partially true. Any time a resource is seen as plentiful and abundant less than ethical persons will engage in wasteful practices. That same person, I never met him before, most likely wouldn’t do that in Iowa when they have to work hard for a bird. When he...

Hunted South Dakota once. Birds were so plentiful folks didn’t even look for them after they dropped. Granted that probably isn’t the usual experience. Enough for me.

Better than the alternative.

Anyone have a shotgun that has an exceptionally large trigger guard opening ? Hunting today I took my BPS because it has probably the biggest opening of my hunting shotguns. Heavy gloves were needed. If I was deciding between two shotguns, the opening size would be important to me. Companies...

Well you know it’s one of those ingrained automatic things a person does without thinking and it is hard to sit here and try and remember. I guess it depends on a lot of things. Any flush my finger is in the trigger guard, a dog getting birdy or on point the same thing. If I see right away it’s...

Two things on the safety bit. I’m fine with muzzle up or down, I’ve seen folks fall and if the muzzle is up, who knows where it goes on the way down. Muzzle down has its own problems, pointed in a safe direction is fine. I have hunted with a fellow who walks with it horizontal, an older guy. I...

Society really doesn’t function well if each of us can decide which regulations, or laws, we deem worthy to follow does it ? Yeah, I wouldn’t turn in the upstanding person fishing for lent, but I also wouldn’t do it myself, I’d probably give them some of mine from the freezer, then I would be...

Spirit Lake area would be your best choice. Lots of lodging during the summer is largely empty this time of year. There’s a nice smaller motel in Milford.

Gotta disagree there. I have photos of my uncle and his buddies filling rail cars with ducks to send out east. Don’t think we want to go back to those days.

I remember the lean years when I was kid I limited myself to one each time I went out. Maybe got 6 or so a season. Triple digits a year seems weird to me, but I only hunted South Dakota once, not for me. As another poster said, I count wounded and lost birds towards my daily limit. Again...

Great, how did Kepa work ? Great dog for sure.

I agree those plastic bags are a bigger problem but I’m talking about folks who love to get out and enjoy nature and then leave their hulls lay. Pick yours up if you can, then pick up a few others you run across.