Thank you Tom for the kind words of welcome. I like that older 20 Smith- it's been used but not abused-And also for your thoughts towards the military and Veterans of All Branches. Hope Chris and his comrades return safe and stay out of harm's way- those IED's are a dangerous fact of life over there in "The Sandbox"- The sad thing is, even if we capture Osama Bin Ladin, some of those folks are so determined to destroy our great Country-by any means. My part-time job in a machine shop before I enlisted helped me get into the Armorer's school-we stripped and cleaned the CO's weapons-he had quite a collection of military rifles dating back to the Trapdoor Springfields- we learned to always cock a Smith before dis-assembly, as recocking the cocking levers that bear against the forearm iron is a "challenge". As I was trained to build and accurize rifles, I knew how to use accra-glas and did repair a few Smith buttstocks in the inletted and tang areas- we also beveled the edge of the lock plates to reduce recoil contact against the stock- I believe most of his Smith's were made from about WW1 to WW2- mostly Ideal grades and with ejectors- in his family mainly. I had heard of Army Col. Wm. Brophy and his love of the Smith gun- our CO- Col. McKeithan was very much a Smith man- used his 16's for quail, dove and even skeet- and the 12 ga. single trap too- back then- the trap field had the older manual pull lever to release the trap- a long linkage, as the "trap boy" stood back behind the final yardage line- and the long pipe lever was somehow linked to the actual trap, in a concrete and roofed bunker ahead of and at the center point of the 5 positions at 16 yards. Another trap boy was inside that bunker, and loaded the trap arm with the bird- so you had two factors- you had to wait after the shot to allow the trap to be re-set- and the "Old Timers' could 'count the trap and try to get a straight-away target" when they called pull. The skeet High and Low houses had electric release traps-with a big stack of clay birds- we usually shot 5 men squads- 25 birds plus a few "no bird repeats". Best I ever did was 49/50-with a base issue shotgun-my Smith 20 is choked Mod and Full- on the station 8- the close incomer- a cylinder choke might have been better- but if I ever got a shot on a bird like that incomer I would drop the shotgun from my shoulder, pivot, re-mount and take it as a going away bird- like Hi House One I'd guess.