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I cringe at the skeet range when I see those guys with thier expensive shotguns slaming it closed.

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Yeah me too.
It's amazing though how some not so expensive guns seem to be able to handle that kind of treatment.
I remember a guy in Brisbane back in the early 80's who was quite a good skeet shooter and ended up winning a Winchester Pigeon grade Skeet gun at a shoot.
He hated Winchester shotguns but shot it alot and very well.
He tried over a long period to kill that gun and couldn't manage to do it.
His way of closing the gun was to slam the barrels shut by swinging the gun upward real fast with both hands on the pitol grip and was the most violent method I've ever seen!
Once he threw the unloaded gun up over his shoulder with muzzels pointing to the rear, as clay shooters often do to carry their gun, and it slipped from his grip and kept going, and fell to the ground smashing the muzzels down hard onto the concrete!
It bent the bottom tube half closed and he shoved a car wheel spanner handle up the bore and levered out the bent metal!
Took the gun back out and if my memory is correct he won the next event!
Tough guns those Winchester 101's!

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