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Unread 01-26-2012, 09:27 PM   #21
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Joe, very pretty wood on both of your Repros, just as the vast majority of them seem to have and one of their characteristics that make for pride of ownership. If the stock in your top example was broken and repaired, it certainly is undetectable in your pic. Did you personally do the repair?
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[QUOTE=Greg Baehman;61002]Dean's set, I have to believe is quite rare, as a matter of fact, I don't ever recall seeing an original same gauge 2-bbl. set, 26" & 28" bbls. with the same chokes before. Dean, do you prefer one barrel length over the other? =QUOTE]

If I can be completely candid, I prefer the 26" barrels for skeet stations 1, 7 and 8. For stations 2,3,4,5, and 6 I prefer the 28" barrels. The problem is... unless shooting a very casual round of skeet with very understanding squad members it is nearly impossible to lug the extra set of barrels around the course and change barrels depending on the station.
Sometimes I shoot the course with the 28" barrels but mostly I shoot the 26" barrels. The 26" barrels are by no means a handicap and I will usually choose to use them.
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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;61061 it is nearly impossible to lug the extra set of barrels around the course and change barrels depending on the station.
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Just when you thought you heard every excuse in the book!
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Speaking of beautiful wood, how about treating us to the money side of your A-1's stock as well as that little 28 2-bbl. set of yours?
OK, here are a few more photos of each. Click on them and they'll expand for a better view.
BTW, both have the long 14 3/4" LOP which fit me much better than the shorter versions.

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Joe, very pretty wood on both of your Repros, just as the vast majority of them seem to have and one of their characteristics that make for pride of ownership. If the stock in your top example was broken and repaired, it certainly is undetectable in your pic. Did you personally do the repair?
Thanks, Greg! Yes, I did the repair. The stock broke completely in 2 at the wrist, but with all the pieces intact. I was lucky, the repair is nearly impossible to see, except for 1 or 2 flat topped diamonds in the checkering.
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I'll see what photos I have and maybe take a couple more and post later. Here is a comparison of my Brad Bachelder recolored 20ga and an original VH.
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Here's my 28 ga proving they will kill ducks. Other photo is son Wyatt with 20ga Citori Gran Lightning on the same day.
Unfortunately we lost that dog, Cisco, last spring.
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OK, here are a few more photos of each. Click on them and they'll expand for a better view.
BTW, both have the long 14 3/4" LOP which fit me much better than the shorter versions.
Marvin, Beautiful guns and beuatiful photos. You are taking professional grade pictures!
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Marvin, Beautiful guns and beuatiful photos. You are taking professional grade pictures!
Thanks for the compliment on the guns Peter, but I can't take credit for the photos. Coincidentally, I bought both of these guns from Cabela's in Buda Texas and, at the time, they were using a top notch professional photographer. Their website was much better then than now IMO, and the gun manager at the Buda store really knew how to showcase his guns!
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Just when you thought you heard every excuse in the book!
That's worse the Sporting Clay guys changing choke tubes at every station.....
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