AboveTheBest
Plinker
I saw a deal on Sluggers at Walmart yesterday and picked up a box of 15 on the way to my Dad's house. He has an old Stevens 311 that he found on GunBroker that used to have 30" barrels until he cut them back to 20".
We set up some coffee cans and milk jugs at 25 and 50 yards, and I thought I'd be happy to hit anything. As it turns out, this thing is a bit of a tack-driver, and after dramatically blowing up all of the first targets, I decided to put some out at 75 and 100 yards.
Out of the 15 shells I only missed 2 shots, and this was all off-hand...
1 miss was one of four shots I took at 100 yards, and the other was my second shot of a "rapid fire" string on a couple of coffee cans at 25 yards. I wanted to fire both barrels at once, but we decided that may be too much for the old shotgun.
Every shot I took would have killed a deer, and made me wonder how many deer have fallen prey to an old Stevens firing slugs. I just thought it would be some Hikock45 style fun, but now I'm thinking about how much fun it would be to shoot a deer with it this year (only after the 450 Bushmaster already claims a couple for the freezer).
If you have one of these old anchors laying around, do yourself a favor and chuck some slugs through it. I bet you'll be surprised how much fun it is.
We set up some coffee cans and milk jugs at 25 and 50 yards, and I thought I'd be happy to hit anything. As it turns out, this thing is a bit of a tack-driver, and after dramatically blowing up all of the first targets, I decided to put some out at 75 and 100 yards.
Out of the 15 shells I only missed 2 shots, and this was all off-hand...
1 miss was one of four shots I took at 100 yards, and the other was my second shot of a "rapid fire" string on a couple of coffee cans at 25 yards. I wanted to fire both barrels at once, but we decided that may be too much for the old shotgun.
Every shot I took would have killed a deer, and made me wonder how many deer have fallen prey to an old Stevens firing slugs. I just thought it would be some Hikock45 style fun, but now I'm thinking about how much fun it would be to shoot a deer with it this year (only after the 450 Bushmaster already claims a couple for the freezer).
If you have one of these old anchors laying around, do yourself a favor and chuck some slugs through it. I bet you'll be surprised how much fun it is.
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