kronkmusic wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 8:50 am
highdesert wrote:TxChinaman wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 12:01 pm
I have a Stoeger Coach SxS in 12 ga. It's a fun toy to take to the range every once in a while, but any one of my pump shotguns is far superior for a home defense scenario.
I've seen the Stoeger Coach guns on sale in my area. Gentlemen who were invited to weekend shooting parties had attendants who reloaded their double barrel shotguns, a bygone era.
Image - Godfather Part II, Michael Corleone in Sicily - when Al Pacino was young.
Apparently there is a modern version of it though. I haven't met the guy yet, but other people at my range have told me about a member there that only shows up a couple times a year, rolls up in a limo with a trunk full of guns, and makes his chauffer set his targets and reload his magazines, in full chauffer's garb, in the South Florida heat. They say he's some big hip-hop artist/producer in Miami. I'm curious to run into him at the range, I probably know the guy or we at least have mutual friends and working acquaintances.
And with that we step aside.
Long long ago in a land far far away, one of my high school buddies and I were approached by a bum (back then the bums were specialists and entertaining as well; I'll tell about Geech and some of the others one day) who had an old car for sale and needed $100.00 to go see his old mother...
He actually had the car and showed it to us and even had the valid registration that he endorsed over to us and so suddenly we were poorer than dirt but the co-owners of a 1920s Cadillac Touring Limousine. It even ran. Got almost three gallons to the mile, but ran. It took us several weeks to get it cleaned up and running without needing more oil than gas.
We'd save up until we had gas money then dress in black suits, white shirt, even a tie. Then it was off to pick up our dates and hope they would have enough money to get us back afterwards. At each house the guy who was dating that girl sat in the back, the other would put on his little cap and go to the door announcing "Mr. ... is here to pick up Miss ...!"
The girls loved it and the looks from the moms were priceless. You could almost hear the "Get Pregnant" whisper.
The car kept running almost the whole summer and when the costs really got out of hand we sold it for $200.00 and thought we were lucky.
It sure was purtty though and well worth every penny.