How would you describe this shotgun?
- Thread starter gizamo
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True....
My doubt is that many here actually know how to hold a smoothbore. I'm guessin' that the majority have no clue. I imagine folks standin' at the modified weaver tryin' to shoot game...
Pity, that so many post on these forums ~ and have never stood in the field. They just repeat what has been said beforehand...
No clue really as to what a game gun is capable of.
Howerver, they can text message while weavin' through traffic at 90mph...
Silly me....
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Andy Griffith
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Howerver, they can text message while weavin' through traffic at 90mph...
No, but I've learned you can't talk on the phone while tryin' to drive a tractor straight down rows.
CJofWolfcreek
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A beautiful specimen of workmanship.
I don't recall the manufacturer, but my Uncle gave me my first shotgun that looked very similar and was in 20 gauge. It was old and the stock was abused so I carefully stripped, steamed and sanded it back to a good condition. I then painstakingly recut the checkering with a 1/4" hand chisel and finished in several layers of hand rubbed urethane. I carried that shotgun for several years until my uncle convinced me to make a gift of it to our host's son on my inaugural deer hunt in Maine.
No other firearm I've ever owned has come close to meaning to me what that old 20 gauge did. I hope it meant as much to the kid I gave it to as it did to me. Kid? I was 20 he was maybe 13 or 15 and that was back in November of 82.
I don't recall the manufacturer, but my Uncle gave me my first shotgun that looked very similar and was in 20 gauge. It was old and the stock was abused so I carefully stripped, steamed and sanded it back to a good condition. I then painstakingly recut the checkering with a 1/4" hand chisel and finished in several layers of hand rubbed urethane. I carried that shotgun for several years until my uncle convinced me to make a gift of it to our host's son on my inaugural deer hunt in Maine.
No other firearm I've ever owned has come close to meaning to me what that old 20 gauge did. I hope it meant as much to the kid I gave it to as it did to me. Kid? I was 20 he was maybe 13 or 15 and that was back in November of 82.
I've collected everything from Flintlocks to Winchesters. The older I get...the more I appreciate classic lines in guns. I'm thinking of building a collection of better single shot shotguns..to please nobody else but me. I like the look of honest wear, the handling marks in the stocks, the external hammer, drop in comb and old style wrists. Frankly, I think these guns are a hell of alot sexier then many of the doubles....
The one in the original post...certainly will not be my last.
The one in the original post...certainly will not be my last.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
My first shotgun, a single shot 20 gauge Iver Johnson sure looked close to that, but plain. Winchesters looked close to it too as did one from H&R. One of those companys had to make it for monkey wards, sears or whatever.
Things were different in the early 50s. I remember tradeing mine up for a pump 12 gauge JC Higgins made by high standard for sears at the sears store when I was a 12 year old kid back in 1953 or so.
Things were different in the early 50s. I remember tradeing mine up for a pump 12 gauge JC Higgins made by high standard for sears at the sears store when I was a 12 year old kid back in 1953 or so.
Merril,
Some of my favorite shotguns as a youngin' were Sears JC Higgins. Nothing wrong with them, and I'm surprised that we old-timers haven't driven the price of them up through the roof.....I'd pay damn fine money to have some of them back.
Maybe that is what this thread is really about....lost youth. We grew old and the guns are as fine today as they were in our young hands.
Damn, I miss them more for havin' just said that...
Some of my favorite shotguns as a youngin' were Sears JC Higgins. Nothing wrong with them, and I'm surprised that we old-timers haven't driven the price of them up through the roof.....I'd pay damn fine money to have some of them back.
Maybe that is what this thread is really about....lost youth. We grew old and the guns are as fine today as they were in our young hands.
Damn, I miss them more for havin' just said that...
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Gizmo, I had that sears pump a long time and still would had it not got stolen out of my house about 7 years ago along with many others! Here is a old picture I have with it and a deer I shot with it when I was about 14 or 15 years old. (With a slug).
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