Would you dove hunt with an expensive shotgun?

[sailor]

choot it! choot it!

[Crookhunter]

I have a Browning 20ga A5 (Belgium made) that my late grandfather had/used. It's an awesome gun and one of my prized possessions. I use that bad boy every time I dove hunt. It's senimential on both fronts, having it and using it.

USE IT.......and take care of it.

[Low Fence]

I respect that, but I also believe you can either shoot or you can't

Oh the gun itself won't help someone that just has no skills. But if you have those "skills" it's just adds to the pleasure of the hunt

I also drink high end spirits vs plastic bottle swell.... both do the same, one is more enjoyable

[eradicator]

Oh the gun itself won't help someone that just has no skills. But if you have those "skills" it's just adds to the pleasure of the hunt

I also drink high end spirits vs plastic bottle swell.... both do the same, one is more enjoyable

I drink Keystone

[locknload]

Very nice gun and Dove slayer you got there. Just handle her with respect and take care of her. Practice on some clays before taking her to the field...

[Uncle Saggy]

Yes, I bird hunt with a very expensive shotgun...... I also use it to hold up barbed wire fence strands to let my dog through..... it a shotgun, a tool

[Smart]

Oh the gun itself won't help someone that just has no skills. But if you have those "skills" it's just adds to the pleasure of the hunt

I also drink high end spirits vs plastic bottle swell.... both do the same, one is more enjoyable

I drink Keystone

I don't put a high value on something I am going to be pissing on the ground later either..

I get multiple uses out of a shotgun..

[eradicator]

I don't put a high value on something I am going to be pissing on the ground later either..

I get multiple uses out of a shotgun..

Except when it's raining

[Smart]

Except when it's raining

And duck, goose or turkey hunting. All reasons to have more than one.....always be prepared..

[eradicator]

And duck, goose or turkey hunting. All reasons to have more than one.....always be prepared..

Keystone is a 'one stop shop' per se

Out of curiosity, what is the difference in a scratch on the stock(permanent) and some surface rust that is easily removed?

[eradicator]

And duck, goose or turkey hunting. All reasons to have more than one.....always be prepared..

More is better, I agree on that front

[critter69]

When I would buy an expensive gun and show my dad. I would normally say some thing like, I don't know if I will hunt with it or not. His remark every time" then why did you buy the **** thing. " I told him once I did not want to take his red label 20 ga. hunting due to I may scratch it, his reply " that's why I bought the **** thing". I have now inherited that gun, and don't shoot it much. More because I just don't shoot it well, but I know he would want me to. So if your dad bought it to " shoot", and did not get around to it, or couldn't I would use it. If he bought it " to hand down generation to generation" I would not use it. But as others have stated that's pretty much an average priced good shotgun. I think you know inside what you should do.

[eradicator]

When I would buy an expensive gun and show my dad. I would normally say some thing like, I don't know if I will hunt with it or not. His remark every time" then why did you buy the **** thing. " I told him once I did not want to take his red label 20 ga. hunting due to I may scratch it, his reply " that's why I bought the **** thing". I have now inherited that gun, and don't shoot it much. More because I just don't shoot it well, but I know he would want me to. So if your dad bought it to " shoot", and did not get around to it, or couldn't I would use it. If he bought it " to hand down generation to generation" I would not use it. But as others have stated that's pretty much an average priced good shotgun. I think you know inside what you should do.

His dad DIDN"T buy it to shoot. It's NEVER been shot. Unless there were circumstances that prevented this, in which case I apologize to the OP

[Smart]

Keystone is a 'one stop shop' per se

Out of curiosity, what is the difference in a scratch on the stock(permanent) and some surface rust that is easily removed?

I'm assuming you are asking me why I call a ding character and then wipe my gun down after every hunt?

[Johnny Dangerr]

In 1975 a fellow at work loved my Remington Semi. I had 2 barrels and he wanted it. His Granddad gave him a Winchester 101 in 410. He wanted to trade and I called my gun smith and asked him if I should do the trade and he said if you don't take it tell him I will give him 2 Remington's.
Five years later bought a 12 ga and took it to my smith and had him match it to the 410. Killed tons of birds with both. My son will get them - scratches and all..........