I had an H&R 20 gauge when I was a 14 year old kid, and I got a few rabbits with it. I loved having it then. All my friends had 22's and so when we when hunting together once, they'd shoot at a rabbit first, and if they missed, I'd blast it with my 20 gauge. That was the plan. Then for a long time I was into archery and really had some lousy results and then I wanted to go gun hunting lately.
So recently after many decades since being 14 I got a Parder 20 gauge, which is pretty much the same thing. I really enjoy it alot. I've been to the range with it and doing pretty good and really enjoy shooting again and found that a homemade foam rubber/duck tape recoil pad pretty much eliminates a lot of the recoil.
I enjoy a single shot shotgun for its simplicity, and the Pardner I also enjoy for its low price. I find myself wondering what's the actual percent of the time you will get a second shot off anyway. Because its such a basic gun, it sort of gives my that old fashioned pioneer feeling like a muzzleloader, but it' a lot faster to load, plus a friend was telling me how his dad had a single shot shotgun and had learned to reload it very fast.
Some might not want to deal with the limitations of a single shot, but after doing archery, it seems as least way beyond archery in its range, accuracy and knockdown power at least for me anyway.
