Thread: secondhand shotguns

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Some of the old SxS and U/O shotties are lethally efficient.

Dozens of rifles/guns go through our closet as we like to field/bench test alot of makes/models, but some prove so good at their job I will never part with them. Strange as it may seem, one of these is a 1940s Savage side by side. Built like a tractor, not a single attractive marketing point, zero modern features, kicks like a bloody horse, but it has beautiful old 30" barrels with tight chokes, and has long proven itself a superb hunter in the field. With pattern tested 3s and 4s it does not miss bunnies out to 55m, and has notched 49 from 50 shots, and 48 from 50 in the field.

Cost $100, clouts me in the jaw whenever I get a bit sloppy, but I'm slightly in awe of the old girl, so in the closet it will stay. Some of these old doubles can be absolutely deadly in the field.