I hardly ever talk about the coronavirus, and I’m heartily sick of the topic. So here’s a pic of a gun that the idiots at Browning decided not to continue producing, the semi-automatic Browning Gold Hunter:
Connie had one of these until her health problems curtailed her shooting activities, and so I sold the thing (because I’m a bigger idiot than Browning). I’ve regretted doing that ever since.
I loved this gun. It had almost no recoil — certainly much less than my own Browning Sweet 16 — and many’s the day we spent shooting at clays, golf balls and hippies actual watermelons with it. Randy Wakeman feels the same as I do:
The [Gold Hunter] 20 gauge, in particular, is just an amazingly soft shooter. Not a flyweight in standard configuration, with 7/8 oz. dove loads the recoil is exceedingly mild; you can barely feel the gun working.
He has a gripe about the Gold Hunter’s trigger, but ours was light and smooth as silk.
I have to say that if ever I stumble across one at a gun show in good condition and at a reasonable price, it’s going to come home with me faster than Carol Vorderman, seen here in RealTree camo.
(That’s called a “twofer” — Gold Hunter + Carol — by the way. Anything to forget about the Wuhan Virus.)
As a very minor point I think that the lovely Miss Carol is wearing (and testing the strength properties of) something closer to the old US army woodland camo pattern. She would stand out in any camouflage.
Camo works by breaking up the silhouette, and that is a lot of silhouette to break up.
Both of them look gorgeous.