Remington pump 12 gauge found in the desert and it shoots great!

[Wyatt Burp]

Years ago a relative bought some out of the way Mojave Desert land and found this Remington Model 10 in the wall of a shack on it. Somebody, probably influenced by Remington shotguns with games scenes on them, engraved this gun with a nail or something. It might make L.D. Nimchke ROFL, but I think it's a beautiful piece of desert folk art. Oiled up, it shot great even though it rattles some. That cat is on both sides of the stock at the grip. I believe I posted it before, but not close up of the art.

 

[Bob O]

Very interesting!

 

[mauser9]

Solid built shotgun. Looked it up in my book. Model 10A made from 1907-1929. Interesting and a nice find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Frizzman]

That old scatter gun has some real character...I think its very cool. Its a nice find.

 

[Drm50]

The old Rem 10 is a Cadillac compared to today's pump guns.
It is fore runner of Ithaca 37. They have a cult following around
these parts. I have made slug guns out of them and they did as
good or better than factory 870 sluggers. ( smooth bores) still
have some barrels uncut and a few fore arms.

 

[Shorty 45 MK2]

That is a neat one!

Thanks for sharing the close up photos.

 

[RJJ 1971]

Nice find. Especially for free.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Very cool. Free knives and guns are often the best; at least the easiest to form an attachment to. I like the engraving, too. I am no fan of traditional floral engraving, nor indeed most professional engraving; it tends to make a gun look like a cap gun. But this stuff is cool, not hack work but more in the way of folk art, as you say.

 

[2152hq]

Neat gun,,I've been shooting a Rem 10 all summer as my skeet & SC gun.

 

[42chevy]

What a cool story! Really neat shotgun also

 

[4506517]

Actually I think that's pretty good.

That is a really cool shotgun.

 

[Valmet]

Neat piece- I'd love to hear the story that shotgun could tell!

 

[Charlie Foxtrott]

That is very cool.

You could take that and put it in one of those fancy galleries in Santa Fe, Phoenix, etc. And Some rich person would pay a small fortune for it to hang in their library or somewhere.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Boy Wyatt, now I get around a bit but you sure do got me beat in finding neat stuff! I would call that one American folk art.

 

[SC_Mike]

Very nice.

Interesting they'd have a duck hunting motif in the Mohave Desert.

If it could only talk...

 

[Collo Rosso]

Very nice.

Interesting they'd have a duck hunting motif in the Mohave Desert.

If it could only talk...

Maybe the influence was more organic and not Remington.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Is it just me or does the flying duck on the left side seem to have teeth?

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Is it just me or does the flying duck on the left side seem to have teeth?

It does, kind of. I saw an engraver's name on it but could only make out part of it. It looks like it says "Stevie Wond...".

 

[kaaskop49]

IMO, this tale is even better than that of the lever action Winchester discovered against (or was it grown over by?) a tree out in the wilds last year. Great snag! I would have a gunsmith look over and clean out/repair this gun and keep it for personal use. After all, isn't that what a firearm is for, personal use?

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

P.S. Hope there was something else interesting in that wall that you're not telling us about!

 

[bugmanz]

nice snag..


John Douglas Pedersen (May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951) was a prolific arms designer who worked for Remington Arms, and later for the United States Government. Famed gun designer John Moses Browning told Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher of U.S. Army Ordnance that Pedersen "was the greatest gun designer in the world".[1]