SXS turkey hunts

[TGS]

Over the last couple seasons I have been using a couple old sxs shotguns I have. Both are 1920/30 vintage, one twelve gauge and the other a 16 gauge. Both guns have mod/full barrels. One hunt from earlier this season was with my GF when were out together for a Saturday morning. Another was a fall hunt (so either sex) and my lab flushed one into a left-right crossing pattern...that was fun! The toms all fell to traditional style solo hunts. It's been a lot of fun to carry the old guns and thankful for RST ammo. All these birds were killed with 2-1/2" shells, except for my GF's bird which was a traditional turkey load.

 

[mowbizz]

Over the last couple seasons I have been using a couple old sxs shotguns I have. Both are 1920/30 vintage, one twelve gauge and the other a 16 gauge. Both guns have mod/full barrels. One hunt from earlier this season was with my GF when were out together for a Saturday morning. Another was a fall hunt (so either sex) and my lab flushed one into a left-right crossing pattern...that was fun! The toms all fell to traditional style solo hunts. It's been a lot of fun to carry the old guns and thankful for RST ammo. All these birds were killed with 2-1/2" shells, except for my GF's bird which was a traditional turkey load.

Very nice! I have a 1913 Parker Trojan 20ga that I was pheasant hunting with for a few years (before my hips started acting up)
The shotgun was my wife’s late fathers and the gun ended up in a “non gun loving” nephew of my wife in Rhode Island. When my wife discovered he had her dad’s guns (they were in his basement rusting away) I told her to go rescue them which she did. She brought back the Parker gun and a sporterized, Argentine Mauser. Both heavily rusted and inoperable. I de-rusted them the best I could after disassembling them. They came out in operable condition! I also bought a case of RST 20ga shells.
I also sent in the Parker serial number and $40 for a certificate of origin/provenance and received a nice letter back with the guns manufacture date and who bought it originally.
Thanks for posting your successful turkey hunt!

 

[longbow]

Great pictures, thanks for posting!

 

[NH Hunter]

 

[NH Hunter]

Love to see the old guns still being used as the tools they are. Congrats on some nice birds.

Well done Mow bringing that old 20 back to life.

 

[SportsmanNH]

Great Pictures Troy ! Awesome success for both of you ! Congrats !

Love the vintage guns . I have a couple myself . Now I need to bring the old Parker out of retirement !

 

[NY Hunter]

Nice birds … thanks for sharing.