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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: follow maggie on December 03, 2020, 05:39:49 PM

Title: Beretta Silver Pigeon
Post by: follow maggie on December 03, 2020, 05:39:49 PM: So I’ve wanted a Beretta Silver Pigeon for 20 years. About 4-1/2 years ago I got real sick & it turned out to be cancer with a bad prognosis. I battled it for 4 years and am blessed enough o have won the battle, so I sold my house in Bremerton & bought a house in Fargo last month so I can spend a lot more time hunting and get back into bird hunting more, like I started out in pullman in 1990. I told myself when I was sick if I won I was going to get a Silver Pigeon to celebrate. Yesterday I got my ND driver license and went right down the street to Scheel’s and bought myself my beating cancer present. I can’t wait to get in he field in a couple days and test it out!
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Post by: follow maggie on December 03, 2020, 05:41:32 PM: For some reason the top picture is upside down & I can’t figure out how to fix it.
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Post by: SeaRun1 on December 03, 2020, 05:52:57 PM: Definitely looking forward to part two Maggie...

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Post by: full choke on December 03, 2020, 06:44:01 PM: Congratulations on your victory! :tup:

You've earned that gun, hope you enjoy every moment with it!
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Post by: hunthard on December 03, 2020, 06:50:56 PM: Sweet gun, hope you shoot a ton of birds with it.
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Post by: bearhunter99 on December 03, 2020, 07:05:01 PM: Beautiful gun and congrats on the positive prognosis!
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Post by: Man Tracker on December 03, 2020, 07:39:45 PM: So happy for you! Hope you get many years of enjoyment out of the gun! I have one and absolutely love it!!
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Post by: JJB11B on December 03, 2020, 07:59:31 PM: You earned that one the hard way! Live every moment to the fullest for the rest of your days! Congratulations!!!
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Post by: hollymaster on December 03, 2020, 08:09:01 PM: Sweeeeet :tup:
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Post by: tank21 on December 03, 2020, 08:21:05 PM: Here here! Congrats, awesome stuff right there. Nothing wrong with Fargo either. Good bird hunting there!
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Post by: follow maggie on December 04, 2020, 06:43:33 AM: Thanks, everyone! The people on this site were a great source of entertainment & inspiration for me when I was sick. I’m forever grateful.
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Post by: b23 on December 04, 2020, 07:58:41 AM: I'm not sure what it is about them but to me, there is just no better looking firearm than a sexy looking Over/Under. Congrats on a good looking piece!
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Post by: Bill W on December 04, 2020, 08:21:31 AM: did you get a 12 or a 20? I'd hate to be you and not be sure which you wanted. If you were that way early congrats on the one you get next year.
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Post by: follow maggie on December 04, 2020, 03:46:41 PM: I went with the 12. I have a Weatherby Orion in 20 that I love. There’s something about the looks of over unders that really get to me, too. I just love the way they look & have a hard time passing them by.
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Post by: Bill W on December 05, 2020, 07:43:27 AM: have fun with the new gun. My next one won't be a pretty gun as in past years. I have a 10 gauge semi on order.
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on December 05, 2020, 08:38:50 AM: Congrats on recovery and celebratory shotgun. Classic!
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Post by: follow maggie on December 10, 2020, 12:26:10 PM: Had the Beretta out for the maiden voyage this morning and I have to say I really like it.
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Post by: b23 on December 10, 2020, 01:25:28 PM: That's some good eatin right there. We used to hunt birds, a lot, when I was a kid and we'd have pheasant feeds about once a month at my grandparents. Pheasant is absolutely delicious!!!
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Post by: elkboy on December 10, 2020, 01:47:45 PM: Congratulations on the cancer victory, the move, the celebratory gun, and those great birds! Thank you for sharing.
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Post by: follow maggie on December 11, 2020, 07:08:12 AM: Thanks everyone
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Post by: Gearhead1940 on December 15, 2020, 11:06:04 AM: Congrats on the shotgun and beating cancer! :tup: I have a Silver Pigeon and absolutely love it. Hope you get a lot of birds with it over the years.
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Post by: 2MANY on December 15, 2020, 11:19:30 AM: Super cool.
I hope your Christmas and holidays are every bit as good.

I'm getting the serious itch to rekindle my bird hunting passion.
With a 14 year old son and no steelhead these days chasing the birds just makes sense. :)
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Post by: follow maggie on December 15, 2020, 12:57:09 PM: I love bird hunting. My favorite thing is to see a dog working a field or retrieving a duck across the pond in the morning. Maggie is too old to hunt anymore, so last week I was down to KT British Labs about 90 minutes from me in Minnesota & put a deposit on a puppy for March-April timeframe.
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Post by: 2MANY on December 15, 2020, 01:51:59 PM: That's great!!!

I've been rereading Richard Wolters book "Game Dog" lately before I crash @ night.
My copy is so old they have since revised the book cover.

Also making plans to build another flight pen for my herd of live feather dummies'.
Trying to decide if I'm incubating eggs or buying chicks this time around.
HHhhhmmm.

That looks like some great country in your picture.
Is there much public ground left in the pheasant heartland to just show up and hunt these days?
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Post by: follow maggie on December 15, 2020, 03:11:36 PM: I’m learning my way around, but there’s some. Can’t say if it’s a lot yet, but some of it is good hunting ground. North Dakota also has a good program called PLOTS where they pay a little money to farmers to open their land to hunters. There’s a lot of thst land and they publish a map book showing them and public land.
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Post by: 2MANY on December 15, 2020, 03:20:54 PM: Best of luck.