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nhcrowshooter · Guru

It's getting better

Top Cat · Senior Member

"I am sure if we had just one auto between us we would have taken down over 300 birds each."

I see you see the error of your ways-young jedi!

M12Shooter · Guru

Very mild up here in Central Canada as well. Wont be more than a couple weeks ad I shall be out shooting crows as well.

Ted

Old Artilleryman · Guru

nhcrowshooter wrote:
10ga and I have been hunting over in nearby Maine off and on since their winter/spring season opened in late January. Action has been slow and spotty in spite of the mild winter and bare ground. Today there were more birds in the area and for the most part they came on as singles, some low, some high and most them dead. We killed 18 between us but given the limitations of both us shooting sideby's I am sure if we had just one auto between us we would have taken down over 300 birds each. The NH season opens on 3/16 and both NH and Maine close on 3/31. Our shooting has historically been the best in the last week of March so we are hoping things get better.

Ground out that way looks a bit marshy/wet. Nice pic of the ol' double 10.

Butch · Guru

Hunting and fishing down here has been spotty as well this year for us, good friend said El Niño is the culprit on our poor crappie fishing this past Feb. so I'm just gone blame our tough hunts on it to. ( lol). Seriously hope yall's March is exceptional.

Butch

Old Artilleryman · Guru

Butch wrote:

Hunting and fishing down here has been spotty as well this year for us, good friend said El Niño is the culprit on our poor crappie fishing this past Feb. so I'm just gone blame our tough hunts on it to. ( lol). Seriously hope yall's March is exceptional.

Butch

Crappy crappie fishing, you say?

nhcrowshooter · Guru

The area is a tidal marsh. It is usually a good spot for winter/spring crows, it's the first place the snow melts and crows can forage for food when everything else is under snow and ice. The gun is a 12ga Parker VHE.

Butch · Guru

OA,

I said poor but crappy is worse than poor so you hit the nail on the head. (lol)

Butch

Top Cat · Senior Member

In the first photo that look says it all staring at the dead crow in that small tree:"Gee I wish I had a semi!"

BAYMAN718 · Senior Member

they are heading north boys....here in south east NY ...the numbers are thinning out fast....get ready

10gacrowshooter · Senior Member

BAYMAN718 wrote:
they are heading north boys....here in south east NY ...the numbers are thinning out fast....get ready

Thanks,

will be getting the SxS ready for the NH opener on wed.

10gacs

Butch · Guru

Top Cat,

Change baits, it often helps when trolling . Good luck

Butch

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Top Cat wrote:
In the first photo that look says it all staring at the dead crow in that small tree:"Gee I wish I had a semi!"

Now Tom you know better, no man that has come to appreciate the craftsmanship of an American classic double gun wishes for such a thing. He daydreams of days gone by and wonders what hunting must have been like for those who were the custodians of the gun before him. He thinks about what he wants in his next purchase as far as maker, grade, barrels, chokes and dimensions because he has learned the best performance can't be had from a one size fits all gun on the shelf today.

So Tom, when are you going to come out of the closet and admit what I have uncovered, that you are indeed the nattering nabob of negativity formerly known as motiondecoy.

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Monday 14th of March 2016 08:11:59 PM

boba · Guru

Naybob? That is a rich and powerful person of European decent.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Bob you are old enough to recall where the phrase nattering nabob of negativism comes from. It's probably the most famous thing he said.

William Safire first penned that phrase, "Nattering nabobs of negativity," for a speech given by Spiro Agnew. It referred to members of the press, especially the liberal, anti-war media of the time.

Technically it means chattering by persons of great wealth or prominence that is marked by features of hostility, withdrawal, or pessimism that hinder or oppose constructive treatment or development.

It actually fits perfectly as Motiondecoy aka Top Cat was a prominent poster who has now become a broken record of negativity and insult to users of doubleguns.

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Monday 14th of March 2016 08:19:35 PM

boba · Guru

Tell 10 gauge I'm jealous of that very warm looking brown sweater he is wearing in the photo! Steve Mc Queen wore a sweater like that when he played the character "Tom Horn" in a western movie.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

He is wearing my vest in the picture, perhaps I should trade, it does look like a nice warm wool sweater.

Top Cat · Senior Member

Naybob? That is a rich and powerful person of European decent

Why thank you very much and now on another note; I know "someone" who ought go back into the closet!

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Top Cat wrote:

Naybob? That is a rich and powerful person of European decent

Why thank you very much and now on another note; I know "someone" who ought go back into the closet!

Tom, why do you continue the charade, we know who you are. It was quite easy to figure out given your style of writing and like Hansel and Gretel you left a trail of breadcrumbs. Hopefully you are better at hiding yourself from the crows.

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Tuesday 15th of March 2016 01:21:18 PM

boba · Guru

Hey, talking about Hansel & Gretel, when I was six years old my folks would read me that story. My dad and second cousin took me with them on a duck hunt where they were jump shooting mallards on different farm ponds on Long Island back in 1954. My dad parked me in this spot next to a big oak tree and said "don't move, we will be back in 15 minutes" well to a six year old kid who has no sense of time that was an eternity! After about two minutes after my dad and second cousin got out of sight I started to think about Hansel & Gretel where Hansel left bread crumbs on the ground in order to find his way home. Then my little mind started racing "oh crap, I have no bread crumbs and I've just been left out here to perish in the wilderness" so off I go at a dead run trying to catch up to my dad and the ducks heard me crashing through the timber and off they went before my dad and second cousin could get into decent shotgun range. The next time I went duck hunting was when I was around eight years old!

Top Cat · Senior Member

We killed 18 between us but given the limitations of both us shooting sideby's I am sure if we had just one auto between us we would have taken down over 300 birds each.

(by the "professor" Ludwig Von Drake!}

Indeed? Do you know what it would take to lug that kind of ammo across a huge field? An auto even? But they don't come in double troubles!

M12Shooter · Guru

Top Cat wrote:
We killed 18 between us but given the limitations of both us shooting sideby's I am sure if we had just one auto between us we would have taken down over 300 birds each.
(by the "professor" Ludwig Von Drake!}
Indeed? Do you know what it would take to lug that kind of ammo across a huge field? An auto even? But they don't come in double troubles!
I have a Browning Auto that only holds two rounds...Called a Double Automatic. Way ahead of its time in the 1950's...

Ted

nhcrowshooter · Guru

The Browning double automatic was a unique design. A Belgium Browning of high quality. What were the features that made this semi-auto two shooter desirable, was it light?

M12Shooter · Guru

nhcrowshooter wrote:
The Browning double automatic was a unique design. A Belgium Browning of high quality. What were the features that made this semi-auto two shooter desirable, was it light?

Designed by Val Browning, son of John Browning, the Double Auto was the first short action inertia operated auto. Steel receivers were a bit over 7 pounds, Twelvette alloy receivers 6.5 pounds and the "Twentyweight" a tad over 6. Alloy receivers came in a host of funky colours. Produced form the Mid 50's and terminated in the early 70's I believe. The DA only held 2 round putting it at par with a double, one in the chamber, the other nestled in an interesting loading port on the left of the receiver. Typical quick load feature of browning autos as well. They have a small but loyal following. Interesting gun to shoot as they recoiled very little.

Ted

Old Artilleryman · Guru

M12Shooter wrote:
nhcrowshooter wrote:
The Browning double automatic was a unique design. A Belgium Browning of high quality. What were the features that made this semi-auto two shooter desirable, was it light?
Designed by Val Browning, son of John Browning, the Double Auto was the first short action inertia operated auto. Steel receivers were a bit over 7 pounds, Twelvette alloy receivers 6.5 pounds and the "Twentyweight" a tad over 6. Alloy receivers came in a host of funky colours. Produced form the Mid 50's and terminated in the early 70's I believe. The DA only held 2 round putting it at par with a double, one in the chamber, the other nestled in an interesting loading port on the left of the receiver. Typical quick load feature of browning autos as well. They have a small but loyal following. Interesting gun to shoot as they recoiled very little.
Ted

I've never heard of this piece, so I just looked it up on Google images. It looks very much like any other semi-auto. What was its advantage and why only two rounds (legal limit somewhere?)? It appears to have sufficient room for a magazine tube. I also see what you mean by all the strange colors available.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Perhaps it was desirable for it's balance. Every auto I have owned or handled has tended to be muzzle heavy due to the magazine tube and extra parts under the forend.

Old Artilleryman · Guru

nhcrowshooter wrote:
Perhaps it was desirable for it's balance. Every auto I have owned or handled has tended to be muzzle heavy due to the magazine tube and extra parts under the forend.

Sounds good. I suppose there's always the "cool factor" of having the only one on the block; like a hundred-year-old 10-ga double or hundred-year-old Meffert double. smile

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Well OA if we all liked and used the same guns life would be a little more boring. I think that Browning double auto would have minimal recoil because from what I read the barrel moves back and forth on firing similar to a 20mm Orlikon cannon. So it's selling points might have been better balance and minimal recoil. Here's a couple of articles about the Browning DA.

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=241187

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/gun-nut/2009/04/should-browning-bring-back-double-automatic

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Monday 21st of March 2016 11:20:46 AM

Old Artilleryman · Guru

Agree.

Very interesting "niche" gun.

So many guns, so little time . . .

Thanks for the bit of education.

killer crowwalski · Member

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