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Not the first gun I have seen with chokes that did not match a letter. And I am talking about cases there the gun is much tighter than the letter states on one or both barrels. That doesn't just happen on its own.
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06-11-2020, 09:25 AM | #4 | ||||||
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After sleeping on this, it occurs to me that the gun might well have been built for stock full & full and then the chokes opened per the hang-tag to fill an order.
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06-11-2020, 11:40 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Attached is a copy of the stock book for 195024 and above it is 195023 which is a 16ga. gun. Notice the 2 entries for pellet count on the 16ga. gun. The top is RH, the bottom LH. This was with #7 shot. Look at the pellet count for 195024 and you see only 1 entry which would mean both barrels had the same pellet count using #8 shot. I guess that there could have been an entry on top of 240 but I can't see it. Using 240 as the pellet count it comes out to 69%, much different than the hang tag!
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06-11-2020, 07:56 PM | #7 | ||||||
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If I remember correctly rom reading it here a few months ago, PB used a 20" circle for patterning.
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06-13-2020, 07:38 AM | #9 | ||||||
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There was also a period during which the patterning ‘circle’ was actually an oval... something like 18” X 24” or some such. Chuck can verify the dimensions. I don’t know if the oval was in a “portrait” position or “landscape” position though.
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06-13-2020, 08:22 AM | #10 | ||||||
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The very first guns were patterned using 18 x 24" at 45 yards. I'm guessing it was an oval. Then it was 24" at 45 yards, then finally 30" at 40 yards. I think the small gouges were patterned at shorter distances sometimes. The stock books when copied many times would not show the distances. The book was too long for the copier.
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