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Lot of holes in this story. If the gun is in fact an Ideal Grade, it wasn't made in 1905. The Ideal Grade didn't come out until 1913. Likewise, Hunter Arms Co. didn't introduce the 20-gauge L.C. Smith until 1907.
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Thanks Dave. I'll relay this to him. He may be off on the gun age but is a serious "old gun" guy who has a house full of old single shots. He reloads for them, including paper patching when appropriate, and does all his hunting with them. For recreation he goes to Africa for a few months almost every winter and works in his favorite PH's camp and culls problem elephants for local villages using his old single shots. He's definitely my go-to guy for information on tuning up my Winchester High Wall .45-90. He definitely did the dove trip too, as I have his pictures from it. He's not that much of a shotgun guy though and could well be off on his LC.
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Were the Brownings Auto-5s? Or a newer model?
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02-18-2016, 07:25 PM | #6 | ||||||
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The quality of Argentina shells has improved. When I went, about 10 years ago, we were shooting Fiocchis, and they were clean-burning and reliable. As I understand it, a few years prior, the local shells were dirty and unreliable and would gum up almost every gun. In our group, I shot a Beretta O/U, and the other guns were a M21 and and old Browning A5. All performed flawlessly.
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02-18-2016, 08:00 PM | #7 | ||||||
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lc smiths are great guns i too have never had a problem with any of mine but i ve never shot near the doves this guy has...all in all i would rate the lc smith one fine gun...charlie
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02-18-2016, 09:40 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Not sure Bryan. It was only about 20yrs ago so I'd guess they were newer than A5's. If I can find his pictures maybe I could tell.
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I would think so. If you told me that multiple A5s in a single outing malfunctioned, i woukd tell you that younwere telling tall tales.
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02-24-2016, 12:36 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Here is the LC owners response. He would like the correct information on the gun if someone has it, which I'm pretty sure someone here has.
Rich: Your friend could be correct. I am certainly not in anyway conversant on LC's. The date of manufacture was given to me many years ago by someone who had some sort of reference on serial numbers. And just possibly I may not have remembered it incorrectly. However, if your friend is a collector and has references the serial no. is 5221 with the barrel flat and frame marked 5221 E under scribed with 2. It is a Hunter Arms manufacture. Perhaps he could get me the correct description. |
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