![]() It was the gun I shot most over my English setter, Ike, and I don’t even remember what I traded it for, but I hope it was something really good, because this is the SKB shotgun I wish I still owned. Nothing more than a 500 dressed up in Weatherby’s signature Claro walnut, the Orion was the entry-level Weatherby o/u and a handsome gun. Weatherby Orion Weatherby Orion Rock Island Auctionīecause I am dim enough that I need to learn some lessons twice, everything that’s true of the SKB 500 applies to my Weatherby Orion. You thumbed a shell into a loading port on the left side of the receiver and it whisked it into the chamber, then you stuck another shell into the port, which also served as a one-shot magazine.ĥ. And while that’s true, it’s equally true that the Double Automatic was a very good bird gun, coming in a heavy steel frame version, a Twelvette model, which I owned, that weighed a little over 6 ½ pounds, and a Twentyweight that was even lighter still. Invented by John Browning’s son Val in the ’50s, the Browning Double Automatic was another one of those answers to a question no one was asking: What if you could make a two-shot semiauto? If you think about it, such a gun combines the drawback of a break action (only two shots) with the drawback of a pump or semiauto (one choke). Browning Double Automatic Browning Double Automatic Rock Island Auction Once I found out I couldn’t miss with it, I realized what an error I made getting rid of my gun. A few years after I got rid of the Fox, I had occasion to shoot a 16-gauge Sterlingworth with similar stock dimensions on a preserve hunt for the Gun Nuts TV show. ![]()
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