Posted on 05/31/2019 4:57:26 AM PDT by w1n1
Performs like a True Champ - Tim Bailey and the folks at Dickinson Arms in Southern California continue to out-do themselves and raise the bar when it comes to delivering value in shotguns with the introduction this fall of the Greenwing 12-gauge over/under shotgun.
"This isn't just a great value gun – it's a great gun, period," said Bailey, co-owner of Dickinson Arms. "Working with our factories in Turkey, we are able to provide a level of features, quality and performance one would only expect from a gun costing much more."
The Greenwing is built with the same handcrafted construction and attention to detail found in Dickinson’s other over/under and side-by-side models.
As much as the Greenwing is loaded with features that will be discussed later in this article, all of the features in the world don’t matter if the gun doesn’t shoot straight. Short answer for the Greenwing: It shoots straight, easily and comfortably. This gun has it all.
FIRST WAS A trip to the patterning board to see if the gun shot where I was looking, and if both barrels patterned to the same point of impact. This is critical if the gun is going to be a winner in the field.
target shooting, it is handy to have a gun that shoots a little bit high (like 60 percent of the pattern above the point of aim) so that the target is always in view. But for a hunting gun and a sporter that engages a lot of dropping targets, a totally flat-shooting gun can be the real ticket.
While shooting targets with this gun, I purposely picked some stations that featured dropping targets and had a lot of fun hitting them easily and repeatedly. In hunting, sometimes shooters miss when mourning doves do their little dipsy-doodle, where, as they accelerate forward, they dip down, pick up even more air speed and then sling out of the short dive, up and away. Guess what: dipsy-doodle doves being shot at with this gun would merely fly right into the bottom of the pattern – game over. Read the rest of Greenwing 12-gauge over/under shotgun.
I’ve shot a 1975 Browning Citori for many years and have been quite satisfied with it. Interesting story to share though, thanks.
Factories in turkey. Stopped reading right there
Are you serious? It's 'Am Shooting Journal'.
I think 'Am Shooting Journal' might be written in Turkey.
Factories in turkey. Stopped reading right there
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Ditto...and they said “our factories in Turkey” with pride.
I bought a Citori trap model in what I think was the mid 80's.. It was a fine gun, worked very well.. But the metal, what'a rust bucket..! It would rust right through all the oil I would apply to it..
I think it was in the late 80's when I took it to the "Browning Booth" at the Grand in Vandalia Ohio and the Rep look at it and said, "It's just surface rust, nothing to worry about". Needless to say, I traded it off soon after that...
I have other Brownings and they are totally excellent... :)
I have several rather fancy, engraved over and unders, but my Citori Lightning is by far my favorite. So I’ll bite, what’s the story? :)
Ahem... anyone who would post some of the dreck that shows up on ASJ... IS a Turkey.
8~)
Bought it used some years back. Took a bit of a while to learn it’s pattern but once I learned to shoot a little bit above or ahead the target, I was getting really good breaks or basically smoking them.
I own an L. C. Smith 20 gage built in the US in 1947.
Good double bbl !
In other words, about average for 'Am Shooting Journal'.
Look at the keywords. ‘dickinsongreenwig’. Green wig? Damn, Jon. Can’t even spell your own keywords.
They do good things. A local guy, Bob Dumlap, went over and got them squared away.
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