Just a Hunter
11-07-2009, 09:56 PM
Have you ever gone out on the town and surprised yourself with what you brought home with you?
This can be a good thing, and at other times a curse depending on the situation. :)
It just happend that I was at the right place at the right time and for better words got lucky (Yah-Baby)
I was pulled for a deer hunt which restricted you to using shotgun slugs only.
This in itself was enough to deter many local hunters from choosing this hunt, but with a high kill ratio and many a nice buck being taken I was more than willing to give it a try.
My only drawback was I did not own a shotgun that was suited for anything but shooting birds. I looked around and to my dismay found that every rifled slug barrel for my Remington would run over $330.
To purchase a new 870 with a rifled barrel would be apx $410 and a Mossberg 500 slugger would be close to $350.
I thought about a barrel for my T/C Encore, but it would also run over $350.
My choices were slim and expensive, but the alternative was to throw some slugs out of my improved choke smoothbore and hope for the best.
I about fell over when I entered a local gunshop and on the used gun rack I found a Marlin 512 Slugmaster 12 gauge sitting there looking back at me.
A customer mentioned as he passed me that it had been sitting there for a while, and that nobody really seemed to need a slug gun in my region.
( I took a mental note and stepped to the senior salesman to haggle a deal)
When all was said and done I walked away from the store with a like new slugger and a box of shells for less than half of what many of my other choices would run me.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I must admit once you hold her close she grows on you.
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IMAG00242.JPG
This can be a good thing, and at other times a curse depending on the situation. :)
It just happend that I was at the right place at the right time and for better words got lucky (Yah-Baby)
I was pulled for a deer hunt which restricted you to using shotgun slugs only.
This in itself was enough to deter many local hunters from choosing this hunt, but with a high kill ratio and many a nice buck being taken I was more than willing to give it a try.
My only drawback was I did not own a shotgun that was suited for anything but shooting birds. I looked around and to my dismay found that every rifled slug barrel for my Remington would run over $330.
To purchase a new 870 with a rifled barrel would be apx $410 and a Mossberg 500 slugger would be close to $350.
I thought about a barrel for my T/C Encore, but it would also run over $350.
My choices were slim and expensive, but the alternative was to throw some slugs out of my improved choke smoothbore and hope for the best.
I about fell over when I entered a local gunshop and on the used gun rack I found a Marlin 512 Slugmaster 12 gauge sitting there looking back at me.
A customer mentioned as he passed me that it had been sitting there for a while, and that nobody really seemed to need a slug gun in my region.
( I took a mental note and stepped to the senior salesman to haggle a deal)
When all was said and done I walked away from the store with a like new slugger and a box of shells for less than half of what many of my other choices would run me.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I must admit once you hold her close she grows on you.
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IMAG00242.JPG