What makes a gun a “Live Bird Gun” is if it was used for competitive live pigeon shooting when new. Period.
Beyond knowing the history of a gun and its original use, the titling of “live bird gun” is based solely on commonly found features on actual live bird guns.
One could argue that the term is more used today as a sales tactic to try and evoke a mystique or rarity to the gun being sold. Not much different than the term “minty”.
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B. Dudley
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