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12-15-2019, 09:59 PM | #13 | ||||||
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The 12-gauge 3-inch progressive burning smokeless powder load came out in the late 1924/early 1925 time frame with the 1 3/8 ounce load.
12-gauge RECORD 3-inch Super-X two piece.jpg To Owners of Super Fox Guns notice slip.jpg LEADER Super-Speed 12-gauge 3-inch.jpg By 1927, Peters were offering such loads. Peters High-Velocity loads 1927.jpg The 12-gauge, 3-inch, Magnum, load with a 1 5/8 ounce payload made the scene in 1935 along with Winchester's Model 12 Heavy Duck Gun. LEADER 12-gauge 3-inch Super-Speed load label end.jpg Super-X 3-inch Magnum.jpg |
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12-15-2019, 10:05 PM | #14 | ||||||
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Some may be surprised to hear this but the 12 gauge is my favorite big bore gauge. Plenty of killing power and easy to handle compared to 10 and 8
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12-15-2019, 10:06 PM | #15 | ||||||
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12-16-2019, 10:11 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Jeff, is the gun you bought in Baltimore marked 3" or did you determine the 3" chambers by a PGCA letter? Is it a late Remington gun?
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12-16-2019, 11:10 AM | #17 | ||||||
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Bill,
The gun is a 1925 gun. There are no records available for it. The chambers measure 2 7/8". I bought it out of a collection belonging to a decoy carver in Havre de Grace. |
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12-16-2019, 07:08 PM | #18 | ||||||
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i really like those record brand shells..i like the high brass and the figurtive rings around the brass also the writing on the shells....thanks for giving us info and pictures....charlie
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12-16-2019, 07:42 PM | #19 | ||||||
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Not a Parker but I found a rare sporting book which I have been looking for for more than 25 years. The History of the Santee Gun Club
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12-16-2019, 08:13 PM | #20 | ||||||
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Painters have always sparred with sculptors, and in my career I always pointed out (with tongue firmly embedded in cheek) to my sculptor colleagues that a a good, rare book is the ultimate sculpture. It has weight, takes up space well, takes you places far away...and usually smells like the past. Great find! (Guns are pretty darned good sculpture, too.)
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