I won a Knight muzzleloader at our local 'gun bash' several months ago and as i only hunt birds it was essentially useless. Called my local dealer (literally sells out of a large shed next to his house) and was shocked to learn that on trade this ugly thing was worth about $500!
So last night i finally got around to paying him a visit and swapping for something i might actually use once in a while. Took a look at a few single action cowboy guns and would've sprung for a Ruger Vaquero but he only had an Uberti available. The Ruger had a MUCH nicer action.
Since he only trades on 'in stock' items i couldn't order the Tikka T3 hunter in .223 that i had been considering (cheap to shoot at paper and cans) so I grabbed a very slightly used one of these off the shelf:
20 ga., matte finish (i would have preferred the glossy but such is life) and that very cool english stock. My screen name of course comes from my strong belief that there is no better bird/clays autoloading shotgun on this planet than what Beretta makes but sometimes a little change is good...right?
So I'm looking forward to busting a few clays with this soon and just maybe i'll get some duck time next week as well.