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Mac
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04/24/17 12:28 AM
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Your first waterfowl gun....?
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What was it? And where did you get it?
My Dad had an old Baker 12 gauge side by side. The stock had long since badly cracked and duct tape kept it serviceable. I am guessing a 28" barrel,; it had a front and rear trigger.
I shot that old piece for a couple years until the relic commenced to firing both barrels simultaneously. I am certain Dad pitched it into the bottom of Little Parsons creek, joining the myriad beer cans he'd chucked there. Times we different back then I reckon...
So what gun was your first? Do you have it still?? 
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Mac
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04/24/17 12:31 AM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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I can buy a dead-ringer of this gun for $350 on Ebay.
Is that a decent price you reckon??? 
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dabs
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04/24/17 01:23 AM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Didn't think eBay sold guns?
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Mac
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04/24/17 08:30 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Warnt ebay dabs, some gun website I ran accross.
I think mebbe I'll pop on it since I spent my first years with one before I was a teenager.
Also on the market for handgun of some sort. Then get a CC permit so I can be legal. I am getting to that age where an equalizer makes sense....
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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870 pump 26 inch plain barrel 
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griffin
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(administrator)
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04/25/17 04:09 AM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Stevens 12 gauge side by side, front and rear trigger, bought new from Western Auto as a Xmas present when I was 11. Still have it, but the stock cracked all to hell a few years ago when I was dove hunting and dropped it, or maybe I threw it in disgust, can't remember. Too much water on it over the years I guess.....was dry rotted. I suppose I'll try to find a new stock for it someday.
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Model 12
Dad got it and a couple of boxes of shells around 1960.
Bought $50 for the lot as I recall.
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Winchester 1200 12ga pump. Dad bought it for us brothers to share, in 1976 or thereabouts. I was the only one that really too to hunting at a young age, so I ended up with it. Still have it to this day. In fact, I have every gun that I ever bought or was given. Never sold or traded one..
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Winchester Model 12. Was my grandfathers gun.
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Belgium Browning A5 12ga. Christmas 1970
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HAUS
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(member for now)
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04/25/17 12:26 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Stevens Arms Company, model 86c, bolt action .22 sr or lr.
Welcome to the Ozarks
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67Firebird
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(Former political advocate)
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04/25/17 09:35 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Mossberg 835 Ulti-Mag.
Don't have it anymore.
Oh yeah, bought it new at the Stratford Inn gun show in Fenton, across from the Chrysler Plant.
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Sirus
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(member)
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04/26/17 02:06 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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I grew up shooting family guns until I was about 12. Save 16 ga single shot, and a Charles Daley 12 O/U. When I was about 12, I bought a winchester 1300 20 for $100 brand new with money that I made mowing lawns ( at $4 per cutting). was only a few years, and I upgraded to a used Winchester 101 12 ga, that I gave $200 for.
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H2ODOG
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(the one who never tires)
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05/01/17 09:24 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Remington Sportsman Auto 12. Sold it several years, but I've been trying to find another one like it. 2 3/4" gun. Was great for quail and pheasants also.
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Mac
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05/01/17 10:11 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Haus,
So was that first waterfowl "git 'er done gun....?????? Rhetorical question...
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Quote:
Sirus said:
I grew up shooting family guns until I was about 12. Save 16 ga single shot, and a Charles Daley 12 O/U. When I was about 12, I bought a winchester 1300 20 for $100 brand new with money that I made mowing lawns ( at $4 per cutting). was only a few years, and I upgraded to a used Winchester 101 12 ga, that I gave $200 for.
4 bucks per yard you must be young I never made that much  maybe I did a bad job of mowing
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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I know a guy.
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Ithaca featherlite 20ga. Still have it, bought a matching 12 off of one of the guys on here. Looking for a 16ga if any of you know of one with vent rib.
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HAUS
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(member for now)
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05/03/17 01:01 PM
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Re: Your first waterfowl gun....?
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Quote:
Mac said:
Haus,
So was that first waterfowl "git 'er done gun....?????? Rhetorical question...
we don't have fancy wetlands down here in the hills. all we had as kids was farm ponds and cricks. ethics aside, i'd pop em with a .22 and my cousin would come in behind with the scattergun and get what he could once they took to the air.
we grew up as quail hunters.. 
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