Jim Watson,
About the Mossy and the Krieghoff. I was a skeet shooter and avid bird hunter, who decided to check out the local trap club...
It was an H&R, in 20ga no less, at 27 yard trap, because a Browning/Krieghoff shooting jerk got snotty because my old recoil-op Ithica upland gun was depositing it's hulls near his feet, even *gasp* striking his boot! He was probably right, shoot I KNOW he was, but it was HOW he said it. He was being a poor ambassador for his sport, and needed a lesson. I out scored him two rounds with the Ithica.
Switching to 27 yards to lose the new guy (me), I began to follow him, but he said "with that?". Okay. I leave and come back my $60 single shot (and some high brass 7 1/2s). He informed me (as if I didn't know) that "20s aren't usually shot at 27 yards. "Oh, well. It's a full choke; I'll give it a try"....and peeled his butt 23 to 19.
Now thourougly enjoying his frustration, I heard him ask his friend to shoot doubles. As he placed his Browning single shot on his rack and picked up a Krieghoff (I know this because I recognized the Browning Recoiless Trap single shot, and his friend asked about the Krieghoff) "Hey, that sounds like fun!", to which he replied "You don't have a gun for doubles".
Au contraire. "I'll be right back." I heard the "F" word uttered behind my back as I departed...
I returned with a Mossberg 835, which I had shot skeet with many times, and had shot everything from partridge, to ducks, to deer with. I'm sad to report that I did not out shoot the snob, but I did tie with him. At the end of the round he turned to me and said "What do I have to do to get away from you?"
"Easy", I told him, "Stop being an ***hole".