Dad had this sweet old gal, given to him by an old friend whose older dad was going into a nursing home. He's no shotgunner so he sent it to me. It's a pre-'68 Western Field (mossy 500 clone) with C-Lect choke. The finish and wood are gorgeous but the whole affair rattles like an antler bag if you're careless in handling

I was recently honored to take it out for some deer/hog scouting in the guise of a squirrel hunt. Luckily we were feeling permissive and three squirrels were let off with stern warnings. It was really lovely to take a walk in the leaves with an honest to God antique though.

Post pics and stories of old guns which still get let out once in a while

..and if this fits better in Photos, somebody please move it

Shooooot, I could miss birds with that just as well as a Perazzi!!

Those old “store brand” guns are neat. I killed my first deer with a Ted Williams model 100 in 30-30–a 94 Winchester with a different name. My old man shoots a Ted Williams 200 pump 12 gauge.. a Winchester 1200 with a different name.

One of my childhood friends had a Western Field bugle nose 12 like that. I had/have a Savage. Took many a Dove together. Mid 1960s.

The first an only new gun my father bought me was identical to that one. Hunted many years with it.

I have that same gun in a mossberg 500 with the select choke.

Best I can figure dad bought it in the late 70’s or early 80’s. It was his only shotgun he ever owned and took great amounts of dove and quail with it.

It’s one of the only guns in my safe I don’t shoot but will never get rid of.

Very nice shotgun!



Western Field Slugster smoothbore, this year, shooting the Lee one ounce slug!