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Why You Shouldn't carry Two Different Gauges at the Same Time!


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Watched a very intelligent lady grab the wrong shotgun off a rack at the load table. Started the stage, dropped two shells, and they disappeared down the barrel. FULL STOP! Not a stupid person by any stretch. Shit happens. Two almost IDENTICAL shotguns. Stupid is doing it twice. 

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We got away lucky.  When we were kids, our folks would trap shoot off a neighbor’s porch.  We had 12, 16, 20, 28 & .410 shotguns all being used by pretty much everyone (3-4 adults and 5 kids between 9-14).

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Dove hunting, got to my spot before dawn, loaded two from my coat pocket into my 12 gauge O/U in the dark.  Doves fly over at first light;  click, click.  I had used a 16 gauge double the week before and didn't realize I still had 16 gauge shells in my pocket.  The 16 gauge hulls lodged in the forcing cones well forward of the firing pins.  It took a while to fashion a ramrod out of a somewhat straight stick to push those jammed 16 gauge shells out of the barrels.

 

The 16 gauge double was sold within a few days.  I promised myself I would never take that risk again.  Since then I have only owned 12 gauge and .410 bore shotguns.

 

Murphy's Law always finds a way.

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That's why I stick with 12g and 410 .

I am never going to make that mistake !

So Saith The Rooster 

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4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

 

Twern't me, although I have seen something similar out bird hunting.

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