Do you believe in magic?

onpoint

onpoint

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If so, what is your magic when it comes to gun and ammo combo? I'm a person who worships guns of yester year. Model 12 Winchester, Auto 5 Browning, 37 Ithaca, Browning Superposed among some others. Give me the old lead shot days anytime. That's what I like about public land in Minnesota. We can still shoot lead for small game and upland birds. Give me a 16 or magnum 20, some good magnum lead shot loads. Add in one of my favorite dogs and watching him/her work and I'm like pig slop.

Magic for me is, one of my 16's(model 12, 37 or A5) 11/4oz of #6's or my 20ga A5 or Superposed with 3" 11/4oz #6's..preferably Remington Nitro Mag with power piston wad...what I grew up shooting. It makes the hunt. It's kind of going back in time and reliving the good old days. Add in a great wild game dinner with a cocktail or two with great friends on Sunday after the hunt, watching a great football game and it just don't get much better.

Late season, I'll grab one of my 12ga's from yester year and load it up with some magnum lead loads and hit the field thinking of my dad, grandfather and uncles when they were creating all the stories with their model 12's, A5's and such. Nothing was better then listening to these guys talk about the great time and hunts they had. How they talked about the legend they called their shotgun and what they did with them. Great stuff

What's your magic?
 
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Since I got my 1960 A5 SweetSixteen with 26" vent rib barrel choked IC it is about all I use. My 16 ga. Citori and my Benelli Montefeltro 12 ga. spend most of their time in the gun cabinet.

I'm not too fussy about loads for my SweetSixteen. I use mainly #6 shot in Federal 1 1/8 oz loads and B&P 1 1/16 oz. loads. I might try a box of Fiocchi's this year. Doesn't seem to matter much as long as I do my part. Still shoot as many or more birds than my friends with their new 12 ga. Benelli's, Brownings or Berettas. For non-tox I have several boxes of Kent Tungsten-Matrix to use.
 
No magic in a combination of scattergun and shotshell...but given a combination of weight and length in the proper proportions for the individual and there can be apparent magic in the scattergun itself.
Then, as usually, shotshell choice inside the extremes is pretty much irrelvant.
 
Zeb, you would be proud of me. I was using some Kent Tungsten Matrix #5's with that sweet old 97 Winchester 16ga I bought a while back. Took some nice Woodies and Honkers with it. Man was that fun to do with that old shotgun.
 
When I'm feeling nostalgic I bring out the Model 37 12GA that my Mom bought for my Dad on their first wedding anniversary in 1946. Or the 20GA Magnum A5 that my Dad got for my brother and me in 1964.
 
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