Ladies & Gentlemen, this includes you jokers also. After coffee, let's get a few things settled ~~
I am a wolf in shotgun clothes. I have an old 10 gauge, muzzle loading, double barrel, shotgun which I used for a few seasons of Pheasant hunting, also my ole Winchester 97 Riot gun,. I probably have put perhaps 2 boxes of 00 through the 97 and maybe 5 lbs of black powder in the 10 gauge muzzle loader, so much for my shot gunning experience. (Cylinder bore naturally )
The Winchester 97 (cylinder bore also) sits by my bed, but when anything goes snap, pop, or crackle in the night and causes me to investigate, I always, instinctively, grab my S&W mod 28 .357.
I suppose this is because after years of sleeping with it - no we aren't legally married - and thousands of rounds through it under every condition imaginable, I have developed an affinity for it in that I 'know' where that bullet will go, day or night. Even in complete darkness. However I never shoot without identifying my potential target.
NO, I am not like that weird deer hunter that I once met in the field, who happily told me " naw, I haven't gotten a Deer yet, but I have had a few good sound shots where they were moving through the scrub Manzanita". Hmmm.
But, I have studied extensively, interior and external ballistics, and not too many things have changed in this part of Physics. The major advances lie almost exclusively in projectile construction, and powder. The rest is a take of off the auto manufactures spiel, new models of the same old thing in effect.
You want power in the cap & ball period? go to the Walker Colt, in the cartridge era, go to 45 70 in a pistol which was tested in the late 1800's. in other words most of our hi touted present day cartridges could, in practicality, be eliminated with no loss in effective cartridges or arms.
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Shot guns haven't evolved that much in the conventional configuration, but yes, in the so called combat versions. They have 'reduced felt recoil', and possibly increasd rate of fire because of this. But, they have also irritated my esthetic appreciation of line and function. sigh. Perhaps I have lived to long.
Today, practically no-one appreciates a true old fashioned cold bluing and top wood work on a rifle / shotgun , snifff. Things that should be admired and loved in themselves, sorta like me ?? :redface::yup::yup:
Don Jose de la Mancha
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