tToday is a big blogging day with everybody talking about the New Year and remembrences goals and what not. Leave it to me not to follow along.

Erik and I went trap shooting today, because it's the big membership drive day at the club, they have a potluck thing, and membership sales, and today the Beretta factory rep. So I got to shoot the brand new Beretta 3901 Ladies/Youth adustable model. The way it was set up was a bit short and the comb was rolled over to the wrong side (set for a RH shooter not a LH shooter like me) Regardless I rather liked the gun. But I'm not sure it's the gun for me.

I have to wonder if the shotgun world is on the edge of another major shift. In the last 2-3 years a whole raft of over/under shotguns have come out at a varitey of price points, aimed at the casual/recreational/club shooter. For a long time there was this void between say $400 and $3000. Which is a big void. Well now, it seems that everyone is coming out with a model for smaller shooters. Browning has both Micro and Ladies models on a lot of their popular guns (not the over/unders though oddly enough). Berretta now has a few RL (reduced length) or youth/ladies guns. Mossberg has them too. It makes me wonder if I shouldn't get a gun this year like I was thinking, but instead should wait another year and see what the choices look like. Will Ruger come out with one? What about a Browning Cynergy or Citori? The Mossberg International O/Us while Turkish made and not in a class with the Brownings and Berettas are nice, and about 1/3 the cost, will they come out with a short stock/small grip option?

I also made cashew brittle today. It worked unlike yesterdays horribly awry attempt, and DeNae and I went to the movies.


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