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This little 20 ga AE went with me on opening day.

44whiskey wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:46 am good pics, thanks for posting sweet A what gauge?

20 ga AE.

[*]This was a short hunt yesterday at 3200 ft in West Virginia. The wind was blowing at about 35 MPH. Gunner pointed this woodcock 50 yards from the truck before I could even load my gun.
A nice start to the season.
20 ga AE.

OK. I’ve still got all my fingers… I took that old Fox to the clays course. I shot 25 rounds of RST’s and then shot 50 rounds of 2 3/4” target loads. No issues at all. Recoil seemed to be about the same and opening and ejection was fine. I know that recoil isn’t an indicator of pressure but there di...

Wally World Winchester or Federal 100-packs (4 boxes ea.) are now working out to c. $10 per box in either 12 or 20 gauge. Kevin I’ve got 8 cases of 20 ga RST’s in 7 1/2 and 8 shot. But I also have 15 cases of 20 ga 2 3/4” target loads that I’d rather be shooting up at targets. So if everyone thinks...

I’m not worried at all about the stock cracking. I had this one restocked. But I would like to shoot something less expensive than $20 a box RST’s.

My 20 ga Fox AE was originally chambered at 2 1/2”. I had the chamber wall measured and found it had been rechambered to 2 3/4”. The chamber wall thickness is .085. I’m assuming the original owner shot many 2 3/4” shells out of this gun but I’ve never shot anything but 2 1/2” RST’s. What’s the conse...

Gunner had a good two hours in the woods this morning. A fresh slug of woodcock just blew in to Virginia. I lost count but I think we found about 10. I got shots at three and managed to bring one home for a snack.

Jeff S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 2:36 pm Sounds like you had a nice day hunting with Gunner. Nice A grade.

He’s a good one.
That was the first time I used that AE 20 ga. on pheasants. It’s my “ little brown birds” gun. It’s choked .000 and .014.
2 1/2” low power shells only. It did OK but I’ll take something with more punch next time.

He’s come a long way since he blew out his leg about 18 months ago.

I drove from Virginia to Pennsylvania yesterday.
3 hours drive each way. And then this guy gives me my limit of pheasants (hens are legal there) in one hour.
He’s almost too good.

I’ll be in Michigan the 2nd week of October in my old stomping grounds. My son and Tut will be along also. I’ll bring my reworked 20 ga AE and a 20 ga Sterlingworth for backup.
Gunner will be along as well.

Dean Harris is highly regarded. I have a 20 ga AE with 4 weight barrels. Both barrels were ordered with cylinder chokes. Dean gave me 14 points in the left barrel by backboring. I left the right barrel at cylinder, as originally ordered.
Those are thin barrels. Dean made sure it could be done safely.

Ebbie Jones restocked my Fox with a new buttstock and matched up both original forends.
He does great work.

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It had obviously been refinished and restocked at one time. It was stored in a safe in a gun sock. I’m guessing the barrels were in the gun sock by themselves.