Well, as the title states...my spring shooting is mostly done. Had some decent shoots from several locations but for the most part, northward migration of crows has finished. Now the task of setting up home territories and raising more targets begins.
Once the countryside greens up a bit I will run and gun a bit...nowhere as leisurely as sitting on a lawn chair and casually dropping a crow or two every 10 or 15 minutes. Below a pic of my last shoot...yes only 4 crows Both were doubles and excellent shots if I should comment myself.
Nice report, Ted, and I love the wagon wheel picture. And there is a lot of satisfaction in finishing on a high note! Those two nice doubles will be remembered often until the hunting picks up again.
Demi
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I think the Win Mod 12 came in three stock configurations: field (standard), pistol grip, and "English" (totally straight), leaving the pistol grip style the only one that accepts a grip cap. You have a pistol grip showing in this thread, and mine is a standard. I would like a cap, but it would take my replacing it with a pistol grip, like yours. Right?
Craig
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Craig, the M12 pictured in tis post belonged to my father, He only owned 2 shotguns, this one and a Browning A5. The brass grip cap was put on by a pervious owner as my dad purchased this shotgun used after WWII. He had his initials engraved on the cap as the original owner had nothing on it. Apparently the stock was work over and some cast off as well.
M12's come in a host of styles and wood qualities throughout the years. Most field grades had rather common walnut and were characteristic of a pistol grip of one sort or another. Several variations of fore ends as well. Several good books out there on the history of the M12...Riffles likely the most comprehensive and accurate in my opinion...
Ted
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Craig, the M12 pictured in tis post belonged to my father, He only owned 2 shotguns, this one and a Browning A5. The brass grip cap was put on by a pervious owner as my dad purchased this shotgun used after WWII. He had his initials engraved on the cap as the original owner had nothing on it. Apparently the stock was work over and some cast off as well.
M12's come in a host of styles and wood qualities throughout the years. Most field grades had rather common walnut and were characteristic of a pistol grip of one sort or another. Several variations of fore ends as well. Several good books out there on the history of the M12...Riffles likely the most comprehensive and accurate in my opinion...
Ted
I was speaking in general terms, I suppose. Yeah, over an 80-year run, there would be lots of M12 styles. Here is a photo of two of mine: my Mod 12 (1926) with the "standard" stock and the older (1915) Meffert 16 which does have a black grip cap on its pistol grip with the Meffert logo. A short time ago, I casually looked for a cap for the Mod 12 for this type of stock (because I thought they looked nice on yours and on others's guns here on the Forum), which in hindsight, doesn't' seem very practical, because of the non-pistol grip on mine--it would end up looking out of place.
Your style of buttstock Craig is commonly referred to as the "Perchbelly". Running change some time in the mid 1930's to a more robust pistol grip style. Above a pic of a perchbelly...and haggard looking young Ted
Both were doubles and excellent shots if I should comment myself. 
