Comments by "nozrep" (@nozrep) on "Why Don't We Have Top-Loading Shotguns?" video.

  1. 5:00 the one time i ever need to speed reload my shotgun is super super fun but rare— when I am sitting in a field and if a massive flock of geese comes down into our decoy spread and the geese do what known in slang as a “tornado” where literally THOUSANDS of geese can decend onto your field and they swirl around in a circle while landing and you just shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot!!!!! And you get your limit of geese really really fast. Only happened to me once in my life goose hunting snow geese and I ran out of shells!😅 It is a sight to behold! Whether you are hunting or just observing nature it is a sight to behold! And you gotta rapid reload your shotgun.
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  2.  @littlehills no no no. take extra boxes of shells!!! Two boxes of shells is usually plenty for an average goose hunt. But like I said we ran out! And the story I described is a completely unpredictable occurrence in goose hunting. And, weighing your bag down with extra boxes of shells is also annoying. And like I said it only happened to me once in 40 years. But yah extra boxes of shells is the only way around that. Wait no😅. I am a terrible shot. Haha. If i was a good shot and actually got one goose per shot, I’d not have run out of shells. But I am not a great shot so I get a goose about every 6 shells😅
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  3.  @jagx234 yup! dumb regs. In my state we have a 3 shell limit. It is stupid. A bag limit is a bag limit. If you are poacher and take more than the legal bag limit of birds… ain’t no shell limit in the shotgun going to stop that. You can poach birds just as easily with a three shell limit in Texas where I am.
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  4. email pictures to multiple antique gun people and get their opinion, maybe is one idea. Maybe one them will give you the indisputable definite way to tell if it is a first gen
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  5. oh. also. serial number or lot numbers if its on there. Like, I am not a gun historian like Ian, but Ian has often spoken about batch numbers/lot numbers/serial numbers in his videos. Say if a stamped number is 0143 just an made up example… then it would be like, within the “range” of 0001 to 5000, if five thousand guns were produced in the first lot or first generation or some such idea like that. Then lot 2 is like 5000-10000. So it would be an indisputable way of knowing authenticity, in theory.
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  6. ohh i was gonna comment a comment similarly! an answer to a question i didn’t know I needed answering to!😂
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