{"id":1044,"date":"2017-10-24T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:20:26","slug":"changing-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Changing Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing gears: My daily life involves mass-produced polymer and machined steel firearms. This weekend I got to hunt pheasants with the men of my family using a hand-engraved Grade IV Ithaca side-by-side in 16 gauge. It belonged to my great-grandfather, and was given to me by my late grandfather many years ago. Using this hand-made 1920&#8217;s gem offers a step back in time for &#8220;modern gun&#8221; shooters like me. Dual triggers, drop-down cocking indicators, figured pistol-grip walnut\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">stock, antique ivory bead sight, extractors with empty-shell ejectors, it has everything you&#8217;d want in a gun from that period &#8212; and it&#8217;s made by American gunsmiths. It kills birds like the purpose-built machine that it is, but if FEELS totally different than a modern auto or O\/U double. I have some excellent modern shotguns, but none is as beautiful or as thought-provoking as this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22729087_1595905540466555_7098672006881203173_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1046 alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22729087_1595905540466555_7098672006881203173_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22729087_1595905540466555_7098672006881203173_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22729087_1595905540466555_7098672006881203173_n.jpg 432w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22549751_1595905460466563_1954589289722552097_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1045 alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22549751_1595905460466563_1954589289722552097_n-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22549751_1595905460466563_1954589289722552097_n-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22549751_1595905460466563_1954589289722552097_n.jpg 360w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 249px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 249\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing gears: My daily life involves mass-produced polymer and machined steel firearms. This weekend I got to hunt pheasants with the men of my family using a hand-engraved Grade IV Ithaca side-by-side in 16 gauge. It belonged to my great-grandfather, and was given to me by my late grandfather many years ago. Using this hand-made\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=1044\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[73,72],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-pheasants","tag-shotgun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}