hoo wee this feeling is killin me

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harry whitley

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It's really heavy overcast, wind is out of the Northeast 10-15 and it's spitting rain. Sure would be a great day to be sitting over a spread of dekes.
Next season seems like an eternity away. Guess I'd better start working on my fishing gear.

I love to fish but it's really just a stop gap between seasons. Fishing and skeet will get me through.

Bet you guys are having those feelings too.

Best,
Harry
 
Went pheasant hunting with the MLB today. Took the grandson and he got his first blood and cracked everyone up cause his "heart was pumping!" Fishing don't get it much for me...I spend all my time baiting hooks, untangling reels and unhooking little stinker bluegills.
 
been going to the skeet range every weekend. my 870 broke last week so i was using my dads super nova. first round today was a 24. thats the first 24 ive ever shot. the other boys we're so happy for me. two guys (both shooting guns that i would have to have a 3 year payment plans for) left the field to shoot on another field. whether they were mad at me or themselves i dont know. i shot a 19 a 20 and another 20 on the next three rounds. Skeet, decoys, school, and work and before i know it it'll be october.

eddie
 
Starts with yard clean up,then cutting the crappin grass.A few isolated rounds of Skeet,with the regulars,and maybe a duckboat ,decoy,or gun project.Nov onest looks so far away.The only summer joy is sailing the Melonseed.
 
I started shooting skeet with an old 870. I broke my first 100 straight with that old gun. I shot it until I caught the short shuckin disease. My son still uses that gun occasionally and it still functions fine. (I got that gun new in 1972 and it has been through the wringer) So, how did you break an 870 ? My friend Peter has a 20 yr old SP 870 that has been sorta cleaned twice since he's had it. It of course is covered in rust, but the darn thing still works fine. Congrats on the 24. If you keep your cheek welded to the stock you will soon be shooting 25x25's.

Best,

Harry
 
Harry,congratulations.I never have seen anyone do that with a 870,going back fifty years.Probable reason is that few shot them when they got to the point where they could break 'em all.It just didn't shuck as smooth as a Model 12.A friend I shoot with does well with one,if he remembers,he's not on the rifle range.Never did see one break.
 
I'm still stuck here screwing around with my shoulder surgery. And now he wants to go back in and 'clean it up' a little. I'm gonna clean his clock..

I have a heated garage filled with SnowGoose materials waiting to get built. My brother takes MY dog out to the chicken (pheasant) farms a couple times a month.. My dad is fishing the spring walleye run as we speak... All as I get to do one handed surfing on the net.. Taking endless notes on how I want my two projects to end up looking..

I think I'm in purgatory.
 
The smoothest shucker is probably a Remington model 31. Problem with the 31 is that it has a lousy balance point.

Nowadays I shoot Sludgomatics . If you don't keep the sludge out of them, they don't matic.

A lot of the old time great skeeters shot Winchester mod. 12's. A lot nowadays (as you know)shoot tube sets or 4 barrell sets except in 12 ga when they shoot gas operated auto's to save their shoulders and to keep from developing a flinch.

I spent a lot of money when I was heavy into skeet and sporting clays. Nowadays I shoot just enough skeet to stay ready for the next season. I can barely afford to shoot sporting clays anymore as I am just getting over sending 2 to college and my medical bills for the last few years have been crushing. If I could only win the lottery I'd have a skeet range in my back yard about half a mile before you got to my dove fields and duck impoundments.

Best,
Harry
 
I used to piss off the trap and skeet shooters with my 870, 30" mod choke. All I ever shot with was whatever high brass 6's that we had leftover from pheasant season. Made my dad's buddies mad shooting my 22/410 at the trap range too.
 
Know what you mean Harry.I asked the guy that owns the club I belong to,when he was going to build a field house over the six skeey fields and air-condition it."When I hit the lottery",he said.Your right about the Rem 31s.They were sweet.Since I don't shoot competition any longer I have my Perazzi Mirage, two barrel, going to consignment this Thursday.I always shot the 20ga tubes in all 12ga events.Never could prove to myself a heavier load than 7/8oz was required.
I do all of my shooting now with SxSs.Ammo at $6 a box is still cheaper than I can load it,in 12 & 20.
 
Those Perazzi's are darned hard to top. I know a guy who shot a 4 barrelled set until his arthritis stopped him from shooting. Wish I could afford to buy that set and yours.

Best 20 ga gun I had for skeet was an old 1100 made on the 12ga. frame in skeet grade. patterned beautifully and had almost 0 recoil.

I bet Dave really did tick off the trap guys shooting a 22/410. Wonder if he was shooting the 22 with rat shot or solids.

I'm told some of the sporting clays ranges now offer a SxS league. If I were you or Dave, i'd be tempted to give that a whirl.

I can't reload for less than $6 a box either, plus i'm getting too lazy to reload.

Best,
Harry
 
the broke 870 was a surprise to me also. if you open the action and look straight across to the inside of the receiver wall you'll see a rail that i think is part of the ejector. there is a piece of spring steel pined to the rail. the end of the rail fits into the notch in the barrel. from that pin to the notch the piece of rail snapped right off. i slid it back and forth and it seemed fine until i went to shoot with it and it refused to grab and eject shells. the empties just stayed in the chamber. on 3" guns i dont think this would pose a problem because that part from that pin is like 1/4" long but on my 3.5 its 3/4" long.

the past couple weeks i was shooting that 870 i was breaking 17-19 clays with a full choke. i shot that super nova with an ic and did much better. i shoot whatever i can find at the gun shop, usually 2 3/4" #9's. i have no idea what the load weight is. one guy at the club i go to brings a different gun every time i see him and he complains about the shot shells and every other excuse that he could have for why he dosent shoot well. hes got one of those fully adjustable butt stocks. its stainless steel and composite the L.O.P. the cast the cheek piece and anything else you can change is done on that. i think its a beretta 20ga.

some of those guys that go there roll in with hummers and 4 gauge barrel sets and cant shoot for sh**. they do get really mad when some on like me with a beat up ford pickup rolls in with a "black" shotgun with duck stickers on it, skunks'em. for them its all an image thing. most of the time i dont keep score yesterday i did though and over 4 rounds the closet anyone came to my score was a tie at 20 and that guys was shooting a camo clad 870 3.5 with a 23" barrel.

soon i'll have my fox back and be able to shoot that at the range.
 
Harry,that was Lee with the 22/.410,shooting the .410 at trap.The full choke will do it if your on them.

Ed,that may explain the problem.The longer extractor on the 31/2"gun.Never did see one of those,and not familure with any 870s after 1960.I know what you mean about everything adjustable on the stocks you see on the range these days.I hate all that crap on a stock.At the same time I believe setting the stock up as best as you can for your site picture.Like everything else,if you have something on there that's adjustable,you'll fool with it more than a few times.Luckily most of us can adjust to standard stock dimentions,but even they have changed over the years.Trend now is higher comb and heel.I like it.
 
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You are right on Joe. That extractor bar can get razor sharp after the gun has had some use and even though it is peened into the reciever it will come off and cut you.

Later,

Harry
 
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