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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

And we think we have a gun culture now! Very Happy

http://life.time.com/culture/hunting-season-photos-from-a-texas-dove-hunt-1961/?iid=lf|moreon#19

cephus · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:28 pm Post subject: Whitewing shoot.

Been there and done that several times, but don't remember ever getting stung by shot. Had lots of fun. One year my brother took his trained lab along and he had more than his limit in about 15 minutes. People were screaming "look out here that black sob comes again.
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rawlbay · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:26 pm Post subject:

Sup with the dude on the ladder? Guess that was before the days when you just screw in a tighter choke. Laughing

kweber · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:44 am Post subject:

poly-chokes and handi-kegs...
yer dated if you understand. Laughing

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Drake · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:30 pm Post subject: White wings.....

The lady standing in the road is practicing great muzzle control. I wonder if she was a loader or just shooting back up?

I have a 870 bought new in 1968.... Mansel's put a poly choke on it before it made it to the woods. Still my favorite gun.

RPool · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:42 pm Post subject:

Great link, Tyler. kweber is right - polychokes, handikegs (likely Lone Star)and pump guns. I see one lady shooting an old humpback Browning. Someone send this link to the White House!

Chef Lefty · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:23 pm Post subject:

Those are some very interesting pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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deputydawg · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:47 pm Post subject:

I LOVE that old stuff!!!

rawlbay · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:34 pm Post subject:

OK i'll bite. I've been to enough gun shows as a kid with my old man to know what a poly choke is, but wtf is a handikeg?

kweber · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:45 am Post subject:

a handi-keg was a short, squat beer bottle marketed by Lone Star Beer.
there's a few still laying around in ranch dumps.
a humpback is a Browning Auto-5 ( I shoot a mid-fifties version) shotgun.
it was built from the early 1900's thru the 1990's.
and of course, a poly-choke was the first variable choke for shotguns. they had to be installed on the barrel by a gun smith. at the time shotguns had fixed chokes.
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Drake · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:15 am Post subject: Hump back

Apologies if I have this reversed but Remington made a humpback as well. I have my great grandfathers. I was told the Remington predates the Browning. I have a box of full box of paper ammo Remington Peters. The price tag says $.40

Ranger354 · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:33 am Post subject:

Made that trip every year until 1994. We hunted from South of Brownsville to the river crossing at Los Ebinos. Many a good hunt spent on the river banks of the Rio Grand and in the Sun Flower fields of Sharryland Plantation. I lost my father in a auto accident on Sep 2, 1994 while he was headed south on this anual trip.

Thank you for posting this, I have many fond memories of days spent eating cold chicken and shooting doves near the border.

kweber · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:53 am Post subject:

Browning was first around 1903.
sometime later the Remington and Savage(I think) came out with an identical gun... probably had to do w/patents and licensing.
they all worked identical.
I never got to Valley white-wing hunt, but way back I remember many
memorable Mourning dove shoots here.
last Sept 1 we had a white-wing shoot here to rival any Valley shoot.
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ROBDOG · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:49 am Post subject:

I have an old Remington humpback with a poly choke. Luckily they added the polychoke to a different barrel so I still have the original for the gun as well. I still pull it out on occasion for dove hunts.