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Old 09-04-2012, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by retmil46 View Post
Well, I don't have a digital camera operational at the moment, that can load pics to the computer, but I can give you the "short" list of just the shotguns -

Stoeger Uplander 20 gauge SXS - plain double trigger version.

Hunter Arms Fulton 12 gauge SXS - 28" barrels double trigger.

LC Smith Field Grade Featherweight 12 gauge SXS- 28" barrels M/F, single selective trigger, serial # puts it as being made around '31/'32.

Ithaca Lefever Nitro Special 12 gauge SXS- 28" barrels M/F double trugger

Ithaca Lefever Nitro Special 12 gauge SXS- originally choked M/F, someone had the barrels professionally cut down to 24 1/2" - would make one heck of a short range quail gun.

Browning B-SS 20 gauge SXS - 28" barrels M/F single selective trigger - found this one virtually brand new in a pawn shop in Bremerton WA for $300 in '92 - put less than a dozen shells thru it - as much as one of these is worth today, it's a definite "safe queen".

Browning A-5 Sweet Sixteen 16 gauge Belgian-made - 28" M vent rib barrel - my father's gun, bought brand new - it's not going ANYWHERE.

Browning A-5 Twenty 20 gauge Belgian-made - 28" M vent rib barrel.

Winchester Model 59 12 gauge Auto - 28" M Win-lite barrel (fiberglass wrapped barrel, floating chamber design) - only weighs six pounds - my dad talked about having one of these before I was old enough to remember, and regretted getting rid of it - found this one at a gun show in Bremerton back in '92, $300 used - and that was dad's Xmas present that year - old man was tickled pink.

Winchester Model 24 16 gauge SXS - 28" barrels M/F double trigger - my favorite out of them all - small slim and wicked light, a true built-to-scale 16 gauge - styled to where it looks like an English double rifle instead of a traditional SXS - might have been a cheap farmers gun back in the 40's, but for my money beats the crap out of most anything built today - that CZ Bobwhite is the closest I've found to it as far as a modern SXS that doesn't cost a kidney - 20 years ago you could pick one of these up for a couple Benjamins - nowadays one in decent shape is going for close to a grand, particularly the 16 and 20 gauge versions.

And that's the SHORT list that's worth mentioning.
Nice collection. I'm mostly ignorant of shotguns. How easu is it to get shells for the 16 gauge?

- Peter.
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