40 inch barrels

[charlie cleveland]

I wish I could afford all of those 8 ga and 10 ga guns with the 10 inch barrels...I would be in parker heaven...some body s gona be a winner in this auction...charlie

[Bob Jurewicz]

But Charlie the wouldn't fit in your safe.
Bob Jurewicz

[mobirdhunter]

It's interesting that those RIAC guns would show up all at once. Someone has been monitoring our chatter and you long barrel aficionados have cause a glut in the market.

As of now, I plan to go to the preview day at Rock Island. I'll start lifting weights again so I can handle those behemoths.

They are very interesting guns, from an interesting time period. I hope someone here gets one.

[Milton C Starr]

Charlie I love the big guns but even to me on a 8 or 4 bore double anything over 36" starts to look disproportionate like on my 6 frame from some angles my 32" barrels look stubby. I think on the big guns somewhere in the range of 34"-38" is where they look good any thing less or more looks odd to me. Then again this can be entirely dependent on the scale of the action/frame size also. Like recently Ive come to the conclusion a 4 bore double should always be a hammergun as the actions arent as chunky around the stock head.

[B. Dudley]

How about the 12g with 40” barrels??? Talk about a rare one!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

I wish I could afford all of those 8 ga and 10 ga guns with the 10 inch barrels...I would be in parker heaven...some body s gona be a winner in this auction...charlie

Don't think you want 10 inch barrels

[6pt-Sika]

I'm most likely wrong but I think their estimations on worth for all three 40" guns are a good bit high . In the past I'd thought they made the estimations low but not on those three .

[Bill Murphy]

I must have missed the 40" 12 gauge. Milton, I think my 30" DH 8 gauge is in perfect proportion. At 10 pounds, I can still lift it.

[Craig Larter]

The 8ga is very nice. Built in 1919 a year after the 8 was outlawed for waterfowl hunting which begs the question what was it intended for? 15 lbs 10oz king sized hippo for sure. That's 2 to 3 pounds heavier than most 36 inch 8's. A round of sporting clays would be a high intensity work out.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Craig Larter

The 8ga is very nice. Built in 1919 a year after the 8 was outlawed for waterfowl hunting which begs the question what was it intended for? 15 lbs 10oz king sized hippo for sure. That's 2 to 3 pounds heavier than most 36 inch 8's. A round of sporting clays would be a high intensity work out.

Thats 6 ounces lighter then my Charlie Hunter 36" gun I bought in Easton last year .