**FIXED IT** Never...Never...Never loan your shotgun to a friend

Mike, SC Hunter · #**101** 02-01-2017, 09:30 PM

OR.....You could have just cut a plug from a limb and plugged his benelli......

opaul · #**102** 02-01-2017, 09:34 PM

In a pinch a tooth brush works perfectly...ask me how I know.

bgrafsr · #**103** 02-02-2017, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bdGreen

Will this polish out?

One of my sons novice friends shows up at the dove lease with a really nice Benelli Super Nova to hunt dove.
This guy is a rifle shooter and pistol shooter/owner.
Well, since he was a shotgun novice I asked him to show me how many shells he could stuff in his shotgun. Yep. Five.
Can't use it tomorrow, I said. It's illegal for migratory birds. And, he had no idea what a 'plug' is.

I had my Winchester O/U in 20 gauge for me, but, I always bring two shotguns and the right ammo to support them.
I loaned him my 1959 Winchester Model 12 in 12 gauge.

Mid morning of the first day hunting we meet in the pasture and he shows me a picture on his cell phone. Damn. That's my gun. Damn.

He said he didn't know what happened. I said, "I do". You stoved the barrel into the dirt somehow and then fired the next round. Seconds after I made that grand proclamation he proceeds to reenact his movement for picking up a spent shell or a bird. Bam. I had him dead to rights on my assessment of his screw up. I knew it, he knew it. BUSTED.

He will be good for whatever direction I take on getting it rectified.

Just Poop.

I got a 3/8" inch piece of dowel at the Walmart and cut it to length. He now knows what a shotgun 'plug' is.
He is lucky I put it in his shotgun.

bdGreen

Gees, just take some vise grips, squeeze the three sections back together, and either weld the splits up or use super glue, Gorilla glue, or duct tape. Will be good as new or close to it.

Sorry to see the barrel is messed up now.

L Pete · #**104** 02-02-2017, 12:52 PM

Now you know.......

Why, all those old used shotguns in the LGSs and pawnshops have a Polychoke, Cutts, or some other dog knot device on the muzzle ........

To your buddy, I'd had to say, "Here's your sign!"............