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Unread 08-09-2017, 10:25 PM   #1
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I'm always on the lookout for lighter weight Super-Fox guns. My ideal is something like 8-1/4 to 8-1/2 pounds, 32 inch tubes with 3-inch chambers, and about 14 to 14-1/4” LOP for cold weather hunting. Well she’s not a Super but I recently found a screamer/very high condition LC Smith Specialty Grade Long Range that’s spot on with those specs. Absolutely no wood cracks anywhere and she looks barely fired. The Long Range was LCS’s waterfowler that was marketed to compete with the Super-Fox, and the Specialty Grade was comparable with the Fox B Grade. This one was shipped in 1924 and is 1 of about 132 Specialty/Long Range guns ever made. Double triggers and is choked XF in both barrels. She's hardly a sporting clays gun but had a good day today 90/100 while shooting mostly simos on Rock Mountain’s course. My friend Allen was high in our gang with 91/100, using his Beretta competition gas gun. Here are a few pics. She'll be on the water this fall. frank
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Very very nice gun Frank.

Remarkable condition for a waterfowling gun.

96 of those 132 had 32" barrels according to Mr. Stubbendiek's research
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Thanks everyone. Rick - even more rare than I thought. Now I'm wondering how many of those 96 had double triggers?

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The chart I have does not divide the options by barrel length

It does say that 56 specialty grades were made with the Hunter One trigger

So 76 of the 132 had double triggers

So since roughly 3/4 of the total had 32". Maybe roughly the same % had the single trigger

Not scientific but that will give you an idea
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BTW. My 1925 Ideal grade 3" 32" extra full choke Longrange digests Kent TM and Bismuth (2 3/4) with out hiccups
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Very nice Elsie Frank.

You certainly find the ones with condition. Great score by the way. I bet most were all orange "mist" when you centered on them with those chokes.
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Beautiful gun Frank.
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