14 3/4" LOP Repros

Wild Skies · 08-22-2014, 05:21 PM

If you look around long enough you will frequently find 12 and 28-ga. double-triggered Repros with a 14 3/4" LOP -- enough of them to realize they are not an anomaly. I have attributed this to the factory installing a stock intended for a single-trigger gun on one of these longer-than-spec'd LOP double-trigger guns. Having said this, I can't ever recall seeing a 14 3/4" LOP on a 20-ga. Repro, have you?

Ralph English · 08-23-2014, 08:26 AM

Hello Greg, I have not seen a 14 3/4" LOP on a 20-ga. but 28-4141 has a
15" LOP and 28" Bbls. (sst,bt,skbp,English grip)

Bill Murphy · 08-23-2014, 11:50 AM

15" on a single trigger gun?? That stock on a double trigger gun would be near 16". I wonder if that was a special order gun?

Ralph English · 08-23-2014, 12:20 PM

Bill, that would also be my conclusion.

Joe Bernfeld · 08-23-2014, 04:42 PM

I can't say I've ever seen a DT 14 3/4" 20 gauge, but here's a couple of pictures of my 14 3/4" LOP DT 12 gauge duck gun:

Mike Murphy · 08-24-2014, 04:28 PM

I've read more than once that Straight, i.e., English gripped guns generally have a longer LOP than pistol gripped ones. Single vs double trigger isn't the determining factor. Could be an urban myth, but that's the information that I've seen.

Bob Jurewicz · 08-24-2014, 06:01 PM

I have a 20/16/16 set with Pistol Grip Stock and a 14 15/16" LOP.
Bob Jurewicz

Wild Skies · 08-24-2014, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Murphy

I've read more than once that Straight, i.e., English gripped guns generally have a longer LOP than pistol gripped ones. Single vs double trigger isn't the determining factor. Could be an urban myth, but that's the information that I've seen.

That may generally be the case when having a gun custom fitted --if-- the location of the front trigger of a DT gun and the trigger of a ST gun are in the same position. Then consider what was reported in The Parker Story . . . "The stock dimensions and weights of the Reproductions were selected to have the most appeal to a hunter. Incidently, Skeuse specified the pull length of the Reproductions to be 14 3/8". Well, the Japanese made the guns exactly to that specification, but measured the pull from either the front trigger of two trigger guns or the single trigger of a gun so equipped. The single trigger on the Reproduction was located in the same position as the rear trigger on a two trigger gun. Thus, the single trigger Reproductions may have a pull length that is a little too long for some shooters."

Sheepherder · 08-25-2014, 08:45 AM

I have a Repro. 20ga., DT, PG, SFE, 28" M&F. Bought NIB, w/case, during the final liquidation. The ser.# is P00288. It is as built and is unaltered.
Measured some years ago by Glen, at Woodcock Hill, Inc. :
Pull 15" (to front trigger), cast off 1/8", drop at comb 1.5", drop at middle 1.75", drop at heel 2.25".

Bill Murphy · 08-25-2014, 12:38 PM

Wow, that gun must have been sitting around the warehouse for a while.