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To: SkyDancer
Looks like a fancy “smoke gun” plus why does the top barrel have a brass fitting on the end and the bottom one doesn’t?

It is an O/U right?

It is an O/U.

The screw in choke in the top barrel looks to be a yellow or brass color which would be improved cylinder. This is a choke that is ok for shooting skeet, but most people shooting a lot of skeet use screw in skeet choke tubes in both barrels.

It appears the bottom barrel has no choke tube screwed into it, which would make for a cylinder choke (no choke) again this is ok for shooting skeet, but not the choke most people use. Yes they do make cylinder screw in choke tubes.

With with threads exposed in the lower barrel it will eventually fill in the space between the threads with plastic and lead. No way you can screw in a choke tube until this is removed. There is no way that any one that shoots a lot would keep shooting without a choke tube screwed into the bottom barrel.

Shooting with sun glasses on a cloudy day? Only a rank amateur would do something dumb like that.

Why no shell pouch or vest to hold extra shot shells in the photo?

Smoke looks like it is floating away from the right side ports in the top barrel, yet you can plainly see the ports on the left side of the barrel.

Even with light target loads the small amount of smoke that comes out of ported barrels blasts out of them. The smoke coming out the right side ports look phony.

When loading an O/U almost all shooters who shoot a lot load the bottom barrel if they are only firing one shot. It cuts down on recoil.

It is a poorly staged photo op as well as photo cropped.

49 posted on 02/03/2013 3:14:30 PM PST by TYVets
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To: TYVets

The shotguns I’ve fired didn’t smoke like that and thanks for that info.


75 posted on 02/03/2013 5:09:22 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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