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Online LongWalker

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Shotguns
« on: February 02, 2023, 12:27:15 PM »
For the past 25+ years, I've mostly shot roundball in my double shotguns.  Having moved back to decent bird-hunting country, I'm thinking I might take up wingshooting again (not that I was ever any good at it).  Who makes a decent SxS shotgun these days?  My old Belgian double handles like a truck axle, and weighs too much for anything other than shooting roundball. 

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2023, 05:40:09 PM »
I haven't kept up with the latest regarding muzzleloader doubles and who is making them,.... but I'd love to find a nice double flinter in 20 ga. for sale.  :bl th up

I've done VERY little "shot shooting" with my trade guns since I started acquiring them.
I might have to do something about that this summer.  :)  :bl th up
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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2023, 10:52:32 PM »
I've shot some with a SxS double 20 flintlock.  I can miss with them too!  I did OK wingshooting with my first NWG, a very light 24 gauge.  It was a great little dove gun--I could usually get at least a few birds with it.  Before the ban on lead shot, I got to hunt ducks a couple times with an original 7' long Hudson Valley fowling piece (didn't say I hit anything).

My current double is a Belgian gun, about middle-of-the-road for quality, but it was definitely made for waterfowl shooting.  Once this thing gets moving, not even I could stop the swing.  It is nice for shooting ball (bored the same as a Brown Bess), and I've taken a number of deer and wild hogs with it, but it just isn't a gun I want to be hunting doves or quail or pheasants with. 

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2023, 07:56:59 AM »
Pedersoli makes a beautiful flinter SxS that I have heard nothing but good things about. I have conversed with a guy who uses his all the time to hunt upland birds. I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2023, 08:48:38 AM »
I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2023, 09:49:24 AM »
Which is your favorite Muzzleloader? Why, the NEXT one, of course!  :luff: :luff: :luff:
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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2023, 11:29:30 AM »
That was a good one Nessmuk


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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2023, 01:55:57 PM »
+1 for the Pedersoli. Probably the best production gun available. If you can find a used Beretta o/u they are very good. 12ga and no chokes but really good.

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2023, 03:52:11 AM »
Pedersoli makes a beautiful flinter SxS that I have heard nothing but good things about. I have conversed with a guy who uses his all the time to hunt upland birds. I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

Darren
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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2023, 01:07:19 PM »
I think Feltwad has a most-excellent point: even the mid-range stuff of the past handles different (and for some of us, better) than the modern reproductions.  Some years back I had a double-flint made by Ketland.  I even shot a round of sporting clays with it (only such round I've ever shot, can't understand the attraction, but many folks don't understand my obsessions).  The problem with the gun was that I tend to prefer a larger bore in a double. 

So like an absolute IDIOT I traded it off, for what I can't remember.  I've handled but not shot a Pedersoli, not "bad" but different.  Another guy might prefer the Pedersoli to the Ketland. . . .  Heck, I once watched VM Starr shoot a round of trap (another game I don't understand) using a double not much different than my current Belgian double.  As I recall though, he had a much lighter 14 gauge for upland gunning. 

I need to go to some farm auctions this summer, and see watch shows up out of the barns. 

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2023, 01:58:57 PM »
The main reason I mentioned the Pedersoli is because I cannot find a SxS flintlock, brand new, that I can afford. The few that I've been able to find started at 3K and went up from there. Hell, even the used ones that I found that were worth looking at were almost that expensive.

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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2023, 04:32:49 PM »
I must agree British sxs flintlock sporting guns in top condition  hold a good price  Enclosed are images of a sxs UK flintlock which I restored  that was in poor condition  at the latter end of 2022 .This gun turned out   reasonable but not pristine but a gun that is 200years old must look its age and not something like new straight off the shelf this one of the biggest faults of restoration
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Re: Shotguns
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2023, 05:41:04 PM »
I have to say, your work is pretty amazing.
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