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Unread 02-19-2016, 07:00 PM   #11
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Is it the same company that made the Spencer rifle? I see there is one of those in the Julia auction. " extremely rare one of a kind Spencer/Bannerman pump action sporting rifle"

George you might have something special.
Thanks Rich for the heads up. I just looked. The shotgun has the exact same action and weird top ejection system. I would like to shoot it at the Southern in the new pump action event. But I would want to have someone tell me if it would blow up,
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Nobody's going to tell you that George - You're on your own.





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Christopher Spencer had many design patents for guns, but the only one which has significant merit was his repeating rifle which Lincoln approved for the War Dept., on the Mall (Well documented event).
Many Columbia bicycle parts, in the early days, used parts designed by Spencer, and made at the Billings & Spencer Forge in Hartford.
Like many of the Spencers that followed him, he was a brilliant engineer, and terrible businessman. Percival (Percy, Spence), his son, was a well known aircraft engineer, who designed the SeaBee amphibious plane made by Republic Aviation, on Long Island NY. He was particularly well known for crashing his planes around the Hartford, Weathersfield and Glastonbury area. He and my grandfather were cousins, buddies, and partners in mischief. Their mutual cousin, Ernie Spencer, from East Hampton, CT, was the guy who drove my dad to Meriden on his 16th birthday to get his first, used, 16ga VH. I have that gun and have lots of memories and visuals associated with it.
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I was hoping you would help Dean. You are so mean.
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If the action is tight and functional and there is good barrel wall thickness I'd try it with some RST Falcon Lights. Maybe sand bag it first and use a piece of cord to pull the trigger.
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George have you ever seen the 12 ga home defense loads? They're about an 1 1/4" long. You could probably get about 15 loaded into your gun. Very mild recoil. Imagine running up to the line yelling "Make My Day" and pumping out 15 rounds. You would be the talk of the town.
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