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Great thread! I agree that the Hi-Standard pumps, including the J.C. Higgins Model 20 are "sleepers." I have a good friend I used to hunt chukars with (before I got too old to fall off mountains) who used nothing else for years and still uses it at times. No maintenance, no issues.

Most people can't really shoot a bolt action shotgun fast enough for multiple shots on one bird or a covey. But I have another friend in upstate NYS who has never had anything but a Mossberg 20 guage bolt action and kills grouse regularly with it. I've seen him nail them with the second shot, too. But he rarely misses the first. Kills deer with it, too. (It does have the little "U" rear sight that some of them have. But of course that's totally NOT adjustable.).

And I agree with the remarks on the "polychokes." Only reason to use anything else is if you are addicted to doubles ("Guilty as charged"....) or an Olympic class trapshooter. Butt they ARE butt-ugly.

Just finished a couple more...,

28ga for youngest daughter and a 20ga for SIL, both under 6lbs.

This one was a project only half the stock left.



It was worth the effort , a very nice shooting rig.



And there were a few pieces missing and some major cracks



Now it's back in the field hopefully for another hundred years.



16x16 x 9.3x72R

I rescued a Model 12, 12 ga w/a cutts recently. Originally a 50s U.S. Marked receiver with a 20" barrel then a choke added. I suspect it was a Bureau of
Prisons gun, carried a lot, shot little. $140 plus tax at a pawn shop. I could have an Briley barrel extender made and still be close to $300, but why. The choke tube happened to be an IC.

Jack

I encountered a Burgess this past weekend. My son went to a shooting get-together with a bunch of guys and one them pulls out a Burgess. Man, those are nice looking guns. He ran that gun all day and never jammed it once.