Thread: Old doubles (SxS) shotguns anyone?

My grandfather had a Browning like that.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Something to that and the aforementioned stock fitment.
I used to dove hunt on an old trap-club's grounds. Once and a while, I might join in on a few rounds as they were active.
I could hold my own with Grandad's A5 16 GA Browning right off the bat.
I had to wait until they were absent to go out and pick up the unhit clays. Manually tossing and learning how to hit them with the Ruger OU. Was quite enlightening! I attributed it to elevation.
The A5 hit like a trap gun for me. The Ruger, like a field gun.
As soon as I learned to 'cover-up' the target, it was ON!

My uncle had one too. I think that it was a 'Sweet 16'. I thought for years that was just his pet name for it but found out later that was the model name. He could really hit with that one.

They used to call those Browning A5s the Humpback. They were known for their reliability.

Bob

Shotgun porn. Parker A-1 Special, 20 Ga. 26-inch barrel Mod/Full.

Originally Posted by Wirm

Shotgun porn. Parker A-1 Special, 20 Ga. 26-inch barrel Mod/Full.

Now that is a shotgun. Just beautiful, art and tool combined into one.

Bob

That's an incredible example and quite rare in a 20ga. Beautiful!

Great posts and pics! Boy do I love the old hammer doubles, well almost any old double will do just fine with me. And that Parker, oh my .

To continue on the forcing cone thing...lengthening the forcing cones surely does help to bring a pattern in but also does a lot for "felt" recoil. It won't change the overall recoil or amount of energy transferred to the shoulder but what I've noticed is it takes the teeth out of it. By that I mean it is lessens the sharpness of the jolt, makes it a more gradual, steady recoil which makes it seem like less overall. Combine that with the fact that lots of those guns had fairly steep drop in the stock, it definitely helps. I had an A.H. Fox some years back, couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with it. The stock drop was so severe, I sold it a few months after I got it.

On eye dominance...as a toddler and even through middle and high school my daughter would often times instinctively want to do things left handed. SHe would through right handed but want to bat left handed. In ice hockey, she used a left handed stick and in lacrosse she was equally adept shooting right or left. When I started her on clays at about 15 or so she had a very tough time the first two times out, hitting maybe 4-5 out of 25. Then her history of doing some things left handed hit me...i tested her eye dominance and sure enough, left eye dominant. She switched to shooting left handed and immediately started hitting 16-18 out of 25. Unfortunately I had already given her a very nice 11-87 20g DU Dinner Gun and she refuses to switch away from that gun despite the shells being chucked across her field of vision.
She has shot my 20g bird double gun and hates it LOL.

When my son and daughter both finish college I'll treat myself to a special double. For now the old Western Long Range 20 gets the nod in the pheasant and quail fields.

No don't shoot it. I do have some of the original shotgun shells for it though. They are paper type shells. I think if I tried to shoot modern ammo through it, the pressures would be very different and may damage the gun or me.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

A real beauty!

Do you shoot it? What ammo do you prefer for it?
I am guessing it is too valuable to risk?

Beautiful shotgun!

Originally Posted by Wirm

Shotgun porn. Parker A-1 Special, 20 Ga. 26-inch barrel Mod/Full.

@ Wirm
Now there is a piece of art. Yowza.
@ Johntoad
That is a very nice collectors piece and I guess it would have a special place in your collection.

I have an old Spanish made side by side at home. I do not know where I got it from, it is a .410, a nice residential shotgun, it is pretty plain Jane. I also do not have pictures of it. This is likely to make John roll his eyes, I have never fired it, and I have had it for probably 25 years.