Did you ever have a gun that just spoke to you?


Good guns are like Good Dogs.

Unfortunately and very sadly, the guns long outlive the dogs.

The dogs are Our Best Friends, and Family.

We are caretakers of the guns.

Enjoy them while you can.


As far as pump guns, model 12's, and Remington 31's, are my favorites. To each their own.


A dear departed friend, shot a 870 12ga. Wingmaster from his layout box, and in the field, like a laser. XX's in the eyes...

To witness a man that can shoot like that, is a wonderful thing to behold.
 
Just wondering if anyone else who bought new wingmasters years ago took the time to coat the action bars and receiver internals with powdered graphite or similar and pump them a few hundred times to get the actions broke in good. Remember doing that with mine back in the day when I shot it regularly. Really helped slick up the action on those blued guns. Didn,t work as well on a couple of express I bought my sons to start out with. Had to go to polishing compound on them to smooth out that rougher finish.
 
Matt DeFore said:
A local pawn shop has an old 16ga wingmaster on their shelf....someone cut the barrel to make a "home defense" gun out of it. It's sad to look at.
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We added a gun to our collection here at work. We were given a list of guns to be destroyed and asked if we wanted any of them for our collection. The list included a SxS 12ga L.C. Smith. I jumped right on it thinking how could anyone toss an LC into the melting pot? I was very very sad to see it when it came in because the barrels had been cut down and the stock had been cut off to just have a grip....so that it looked like a pirate gun.

Joe Friday said:
A sweet piece of art. All shotguns should be metal and wood.
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While I do prefer a wood and metal gun, there is no doubt that my black Benelli is a gooooooooooood thing to have. Steve won't let me hardly look at his pretty twice barrels when we're out west hunting. He's afraid that even just me looking at it will destroy the pretty wood on them. Not that I blame him.....my guns have been used to get me up the sides of mountains, keep me from falling down mountains, helping me across rivers (I am a bit of a klutz), as paddles to move the boat to retrieve paddles that I've dropped accidentally. My guns tend to be hard used so sadly, sometimes a "plastic" gun is the way to go.
 
My first "REAL SHOTGUN" was a 20 ga Wingmaster 870 I bought from my Math teacher neighbor for $80 in 1976 using my lawn mowing money when I was 16yrs old. Killed a lot of quail, rabbits, and dove with that gun. Gosh I even took it out and shot some ducks with it! It has a 26inch 2 3/4, imp. mod. barrel. I still have it today. I would like to have a magnum 12 wingmaster to keep it company. Probably open for debate, but I don't think there's a smoother pump action than what's on Wingmaster. I do think it's superior to the Express, but I have a friend who's been shooting an Express since he was a teenager. I've never seen anybody pump and shoot 3 Green-winged Teal like I saw him do one day. Heck! I don't think I saw anybody bring down 3 ducks with an auto any faster than he could with that old Express. You ought to see the thing! All the finish is gone on both wood and metal, rusty as heck, and he uses a piece of rope for a sling. LOL.......I guess its a matter of what your use to.
 
Jim ,

Visiting a friend and he was bemoaning the inheritance of a number of "ancient blunderbusses". He asked if I'd be interested in them. Most were standard "rack" period pieces like a sporterized Mauser....

But angels sang when this one hit my hands..... 1937 Belgian Box Lock brought home from WWII.



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One spoke to me today, 1972 Smith model 19-3 6in. Easily 90% condition if not better. And they had a Marlin 99c with a perfect walnut stock on it. It came home too.

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I have a thing for doubles. OU or SXS, I can?t resist. Some are keepers and some find new homes later. My favourite keeper in the last few years was a Franchi Instinct L. At first I wasn?t sure but then installed a pair of a Briley light mod chokes and I fell in love.

I had an 870 once back in the 70s but gave it to my younger brother on his 15th birthday. You couldn?t keep me from shooting my old SXS.
 
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