Browning A5 recoil versus Benelli SBE

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Shooting an A-5 is an experience. I literally wore one out way back yonder in time. Didn't think they kicked too bad till I got an 1100. I continued to shoot the B gun and then after rebuilding it for the 3rd time I traded it on a nice M-12 Trap with Hydrocoil stock that I wore out(the Hydrocoil stock) in 2 seasons of ducking. It was a great gun to shoot diving ducks with from a booby blind. Stick it on their feet and ya can't miss. The a-5 does have a lot more recoil than other autos just because of the unique action. An easy gun to hit with though in my opinion.

Now to the Federal Wardens thing. As you may know i was a guide for waterfowlers in Md for a long time(33 yrs). I met wardens professionally at least once a week for 3 months of the year and also for a month in Sept while taking hunters doving or shooting them with my friends. We hunted doves 4-5 days a week and we all grew sunflowers on our farms. We got to meet the Federal wardens quite a bit. On one GREAT dove hunting day we got checked by the wardens and were found to be completely legal. We had so many birds in a field of sunflowers they thought we were baiting. In 12 acres of sunflowers we had more than 20,000 doves according to their estimates. When they checked me i was just getting done. Knowing the warden somewhat i offered him my gun...which after a little coaxing he accepted and he shot a limit of doves in very short order...as did his partner. We went up to the farm house ...got out the soft drinks and iced watermelon and had a little party. Those guys were really decent and I always got along with them. They even made suggestions to us to make our hunting even more lawful. We listened. One later bercame the Head federal man for the Mid Atlantic and He was easy to work with. They knew us to be law abiding hunters and treated us with respect...

However some of their colleagues were nasty abrasive and just looked for a way to charge you with little nit picking charges. I was at home one day when I had a large amount of snow geese get into the corn field. Chased most of the canadas out(snows aren't civilised ya know). Well my daughter and I got in the truck and rode out into the field and chased the snows out.30,000 snow geese make a lot of noise ya know. Before I got out of the field and back to the house this guy in an unmarked car came up in front of me(on my own land) and jumped out of his car with drawn gun and told me to get out of the truck. He accused us of shooting into the geese(illegal) to chase them out. I was somewhat annoyed to have a gun stuck in my face and told the warden in no uncertain terms that if he didn't put it away I was gonna shove it down his throat so far they would have to extract it through his other end. Asked him what the H he thought he was doing. I also thought he was gonna shoot me because I was Pi$$ed Badly so. After i got calmed down just a little I let him look in the truck(no guns)..got his name and called his supervisor,,,a man I had lent a gun to in years past to shoot doves. The idiot got transferred to Loosianna. He mighta got killed down there. I had dealings with Willie Parker and others and most of the Feds were not fun to deal with. I know of one who arrested his own brother for shooting geese over bait. They found 11 grains of corn in the field. I doubt they were baiting but they bagged 'em up for it anyway. Good and bad in all of 'em but the state guys were usually easier to deal with and more reasonable