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Talk Me Out of Buying a Pedersoli 20 Gauge Shotgun
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Hazelnut at Panera and at work they have coffee machines galore! I get the vanilla latte mixed with an equal amount of black coffee. I'm set to begin the day when I have that with an apple fritter.
I don't know what the weight of a 20 sxs is by Peder but the current 12g sxs is way to heavy IMO. My 1972 sxs 12g is just over 6lb and a joy to hunt with.
I sold my later versions!
If the 20g is under 6&1/2lb I too would be tempted but we don't see them over here.
Don't fret over any choking. Thin cards curl past them easy.
I sold my later versions!
If the 20g is under 6&1/2lb I too would be tempted but we don't see them over here.
Don't fret over any choking. Thin cards curl past them easy.
Pedersoli's web site says that the weight is 7.05 pounds. That's only a difference of .55 pounds and I'm use to carrying really heavy rifles in the field!
That might not be tooooo bad then. It's still heavy for what is supposed to be a traditional based sxs in 20g!Pedersoli's web site says that the weight is 7.05 pounds. That's only a difference of .55 pounds and I'm use to carrying really heavy rifles in the field!
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Enfield,
Have watched your thread with interest -- déjà vu for me. I'm posting neither to talk you out of it, nor talk you into it. As it should be, that's solely your call. But the mulling is needed, and can be fun, too. The beagles' melodious music has been very enjoyable.
After overnight consideration, it seems to me that you are quite close to talking yourself into getting the Pedersoli 20ga. Looks to me that most all the help you asked for to not buy this SxS has been shot away with both barrels.
If I'm correct, I look forward to seeing your pictures.
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Just relax and let it happen. Each day you wake up on the right side of the grass is a gift. Make the most of your gifts.
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I once traded a friend out of a Traditions 12 ga single percussion half stock that I took dove hunting in SE Texas with my coworkers. We didn't kill too many, but my ratio was as good as theirs. They were also amazed at the smoothbore's ability to hit an oil can with a patched round ball 30 yds plus. Somebody finally talked me out of it, but I still have the shot snake that came with it, so I need another smoothie!
I have a LOT of pre-measured charges made up for the Howdah. It seems a shame to devote all that ammo for just one gun.
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Somebody had a 5' barreled fowler at the Berryville shoot last year, IIRC it was made by Tennessee Valley Muzzleloading. Beautiful full stock, 16 ga, flint. Quite the thing! I want one but don't exactly know why, Geo.
My Pedersoli 12 gauge double weighs in at 5.8 pounds empty and is a joy to carry and shoot as long as you are reasonable with the loads. Heavy loads and powder charges and it will stomp you.
Not sure of the date of manufacture, but it has a serial number under 600.
There should be a date code, two letters in a rectangle.
I actually knew there was a date code, just didn’t think to look. Before you mentioned earlier guns being lighter never gave it any thought.
Looks like mine was proofed in 1978, based on the AD date code. A tad younger than yours.
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Id just like to add my two cents....
If you are looking for anybody to talk you out of buying any kind of gun, I'm afraid you have come in through the wrong door.
If you are looking for anybody to talk you out of buying any kind of gun, I'm afraid you have come in through the wrong door.
I see I am too late to save you from yourself. Well, I wasn't intending to anyway. Now you are on the 20 step approach to muzzle loading addiction.
Seems as if collectively we have failed you and your cry for help. Somebody will have to take the fall, just not sure who. I believe David Pedersoli is the enabler here. If he and his company didn’t make and sell it......
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Dad had hounds over 60 years until he had a stoke and couldn't take care of them. I was going coyote hunting with him before I was going to school. We would hunt with 3 or 4 other hunters and the pack would be over 100 on many nights. Oh, the chorus they raised those nights.
In the early 80's he bought some land with 3 creeks that hadn't been occupied in 30 years. It was covered in briers and primrose thickets. He had a pack of about 20 Beagles; some pure, some a mix of Beagle and July running hound. I can recall on a fall day like today waking before dawn, putting on some coffee, casting the hounds from the front yard, getting a cup and sitting on the porch while the hounds went to the bottom and would jump a Red Fox or a Cottontail. It didn't take long to tell which. It was NEVER about the catch/kill to my Dad, it was always about the chase.
I have his horn and his best friend's goat horn which dates back to the 1870's.
I lost my Beacon three years ago this month when he crossed over Jordan.
I Love You and Miss You Dad.
In the early 80's he bought some land with 3 creeks that hadn't been occupied in 30 years. It was covered in briers and primrose thickets. He had a pack of about 20 Beagles; some pure, some a mix of Beagle and July running hound. I can recall on a fall day like today waking before dawn, putting on some coffee, casting the hounds from the front yard, getting a cup and sitting on the porch while the hounds went to the bottom and would jump a Red Fox or a Cottontail. It didn't take long to tell which. It was NEVER about the catch/kill to my Dad, it was always about the chase.
I have his horn and his best friend's goat horn which dates back to the 1870's.
I lost my Beacon three years ago this month when he crossed over Jordan.
I Love You and Miss You Dad.
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