Posted by roll crimp on November 28, 2007, 4:47 pm
On Fridays I and a couple other fellows take our lunch hour at the Rob and Gun Club on the Air Base where we work and shoot a little trap. Last week I took my 16ga Elsie. (26” barrels) There were two other guys that day. Both had started before I got there. One of the men is an avid SxS guy, although for the most part he buys stuff that looks more like a fence post than it does a gun ($200 or less).
When I took the Smith out of the case, of course he had to see it. I handed it too him and he oooh’d and aaahhhh’d over it a bit. The other guy was shooting a 12ga auto and had just finished a round and he asked if he could handle it. Of course I nodded my head yes.
Ooooooohhh………Ooohhhh boy!, he said as he hefted it. Holding it out if front of him at arms length, he moved it up and down. Wow this is light! There’s nothing to it!! MMMMMMMmmmm,,,,,,mmmmm!!!
Then he mounted it.
Ohhhhh baby!
Then he remounted it.
Man oh man!!!
Then he went to holding it waist high and drooling over it.
The other fellow had to hold him while I pried the gun from his hands!
Well not really but I was beginning to wonder, the way he was going on about it.
This was probably the first SxS double he every handled. He has a Browning Citori among other guns but even that would be heavy compared to my little 16ga.
I couldn’t have asked for a better response. I think he would have had the same response with almost any Smith in any gauge. It just so happened that I had the 16ga with me that day and of course it is a light little thing compared to the bulkier 12ga auto he was using.
He had seen me with it before that day but never really thought much of it and never asked to handle it. He used to refer to it as “that old double barrel”. He uses more respectful wording when referring to my Smith’s, now.
Just though I had to pass this along…..you really had to be there to get the full effect. He was really, really, smitten!!!