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I've had some things going on since the first of the year and had backed off a bit on clays shooting. Finally today things lined up and I had a 410 bore Winchester Model 42 out for Sporting Clays. She's one of the last 42's made in 1963 with Deluxe wood and is factory choked: Skeet. Today it was 2-1/2" Aguila import shells with 1/2 ounce of 8's. I like to call target configured 410's like this "Professors" - you hit or miss and with very few chippers. And every miss is an opportunity to figure out why and correct. Yep, I was a little rusty after two months' semi-hiatus and surely didn't come in with a good score. Not even close. frank
Well anyway, here are some pics of the 42.
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Sweet gun!! Could be a mate to the one that jumped out of a pawn shop in Denver in 1970 and begged me to take it home. Led me down the road to skeet and its been all downhill since.
I only ever owned one, a true 99% 28-inch field-choked gun that a smooth-talking local dentist talked me out of at an exorbitant profit over my original purchase price. His "honor caveat" was that he would never alter it, but sell it to finance the purchase of the M42 he really lusted after, a factory skeet Deluxe model 42. A year or so later I encountered him with the gun at a local skeet shoot; it looked like something Madonna would carry over her shoulder to the American Music Awards: lots of bad scroll and thin gold, birds and animals of indeterminate species, a Money Maker rib, and a checkering pattern not remotely contemplated by the Custom Shop in New Haven. I could only remark, "It looks a lot different!" His reply was, "Yeah, a buddy of mine on active duty in Japan took it over for me and had it upgraded." Kevin