9ThreeXFifty7,

For many years I used a Savage-Stevens side by side 12 bore in India and the gun is srtill in very good shape. Not quite a fine gun, but to my very biased eye, she remains the most beautiful shotgun ever made.

As Nakihunter rightly points out most Indians shoot pests on crop protection permits with shotguns because the powers that be grant shotgun licenses in the country much more easily than they do licenses for any other kind of gun. For a while the government tried to use explosive traps which blew a boar's jaw off when it bit into them but they have since been banned because a lof of people had their legs blown off by stepping on them and the Naxalite communists also figured out to use these in booby traps to kill rural policemen.

It is funny how the Paradox type rifling in cheap H&R shotguns made for the Indian market often turns up over there but I have yet to see an old gun of the type at gun shows over here. Perhaps, this great rifleman's country did not see any point to this kind of gun in the pre WW-2 years as Americans are riflemen first and foremost from what I can see.

I now have a 1956 Browning A-5 shotgun with two barrels in a case which I bought from the owner, a fellow old timer in Wisconsin and which I simply love.

For the pigs I shall be using another bread and butter gun, a Knight 50 cal inline muzzleloader which I was able to get brand new at Mike Schrank's Smoke N Gun in Waukegan (a shop that is a must visit for anyone who wants to buy nice old guns in the Chicagoland area) for just $ 100 with all accessories. I just love the way it shoots with 320 grain flat nosed bullets cast by my friend and business partner and a 90 Gr 2F BP load.

Wish me luck!

Good hunting!