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Jim Catalano
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A 20's great for birds--doves or quail. For anything else you need the bigger 12 or 10. For ducks you need abt #6 shot if you're pass-shooting. Geese need at least #4 if not #2 buck. For varmint calling I like a 12 with #4 shot. It'll stop anything…
Becky, it just means you are a better shot and don't need all those extra BB's
It sounds like you had to be a person of means to be an artist. Did artist of the period make their own paints?
I maybe suffering from Old Timers', I want to say it's a Mauser. I've recently seen a gun like this on the NRA's American Rifleman . I think. I know this a lame post, but the fact that I any clue surprises me no end.
Good Luck, just take this with a…
Am I the only person who shoots a 20 guage?
Black powder does not have the "bang" effect that smokeless does. But then again..you men know that.
Morgan, If you use the old full brass shells and load them with black powder you do it the same as loading a muzzle loaded shotgun ... equal measure of powder and shot. I down-load my old '87 10 ga. shells to 12 ga. spec and they aren't bad to shoot…
The old Winchester catalogs list shot shells for #2, # 4, #6, and #8 which translate into a guage. Those 2, 4, 6, and 8 guages were almost exclusively used by the East coast market hunters that were trying to knock down as many ducks and geese as po…
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- hunting ,camping ,SASS shooting and history
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- At 7:15am on August 8, 2009,
Lee Anderson said… - Well Jim ...... you pretty much hit the nail on the head. At 70 years I definitely ain't a kid any more and I have spent the greater part of my life on the back of a horse.
- At 7:50am on August 7, 2009,
Lee Anderson said…
- I don't know if it's a story or not but as a living historian with the Arizona State Historical Society I prortray any of three different characters that were significant in Early Arizona's cowboy culture: the 1750 Spanish Colonial Vaquero, the 1850 Mexican cowboy, or the 1890 American cowboy. Allen took this photo at an event where I was a Mexican cowboy.
- At 5:59pm on August 5, 2009,
JOHNNY RAMIREZ said… - Jim,
Thanks for your support and encouragment, as I have my second one on the writing board now, and am looking at having it completed either at the end of the month or the beginning of next month.
Again thanks for your support, and God bless,
Johnny
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