Quality G Top Action

[Bruce Day]

Sometimes people like to see photos of guns, so to keep interest alive, here are some of an early top Action hammer gun in original condition.

Case by Edgar Spencer. The paper documents details that may be interesting. The gun is a 7lb 28" 12 ga on a number 1 frame. The chamber measurements were surprising. The chokes make this an upland game gun.

Prairie grouse engraving and I have shot them with this gun. Hunters used to come out here in rail Pullman and club cars, get picked up at the station by buckboard and hunt the prairies. Guides and farmers were paid. In some areas such as along the Platte, Kansas and Arkansas Rivers with braided channels, hunters waited for for waterfowl in the morning and pursued upland game in the afternoon.

I use regular light Remington loads and I reload them to Remington factory specs. The gun has original bore diameters and so I do not measure wall thickness. This gun would have been factory patterned with 1 1/8 loads of number 7 shot pushed at just below 1200 fps. This would have been a black powder gun when made but was little used so shows no black powder corrosion.