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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:35 pm |
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http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=125049466
Was just messing around looking at stuff on GunBroker and spotted this one. I think it's the first time I've ever seen what's obviously a railbird engraved on a Parker.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:41 pm |
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| I cringe when I see screws like that. It should be clear that you are doing something wrong way before they get to that point. Other than that shes got some potential, but not at that price.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:45 pm |
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| John Browning gun at the Madison Wis Pheasant Fest. Attached Image (viewed 449 times):
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:50 pm |
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| Snipe
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:56 pm |
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| Admiral Fletcher gun at Duluth Puglisi shoot. These snipe too, and there's a difference? Attached Image (viewed 445 times):
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:57 pm |
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| Sooo, This is what happens to your prized AH after you give to the Grand kids!
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Posted: Sat Mar 21st, 2009 11:57 pm |
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| Shorebirds, probably yellowlegs......
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 12:05 am |
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| The only factory guns I have seen with railbirds are Model 10F Remingtons.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 12:08 am |
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I've never seen a Model 10 in F grade so I'll have to take your word for it. Just missed a dandy Model 10 on GunBroker actually, first I'd ever seen with a 36 inch barrel.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 01:56 am |
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| IMHO the first pic Bruce posted is woodcock judging primarily by the positioning of the eyes and the second is some sort of sandpiper, most likely Yellowlegs as Destry says. The link Destry shows is definitely of rails, no question.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 07:23 am |
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Dean,
They might be woodcock, the legs just seemed a little long.
Sandpipers are little tiny things and they're legs aren't nearly so long, those are definitely yellowlegs. The ones in the background might be sandpipers but in relation to the yellowlegs (as far as size) I think they're maybe robin snipe which were a commonly hunted shorebird as well.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 12:36 pm |
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Sorry Destry, I used too generic a term in "sandpipers" and agree it is probably a depiction of a Greater Yellowlegs.
Scolopacidae: Sandpipers include about 90 species, 36 of which breed in North America (which include the Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs) This family includes curlews, godwits,snipes, woodcocks, turnstones, pharalopes, dowitchers, yellowlegs.
. . . but it's certainly not a woodcock 
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 07:02 pm |
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Dean,
That's interesting, I'd never heard the entire shorebird family thrown in with the generic phrase "sandpiper" before. You learn something new every day.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 07:41 pm |
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| I, too, was surprised to see woodcock included as a sandpiper but consider that the American Woodcock, original taxonomic name Philohela minor but more recently changed to Scolopax minor explains it all I guess. (but he's still a "little russet feller" to me)
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 07:44 pm |
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I'd always heard them all refered to as "shorebirds" and that's including woodcock though you never see one "on the shore". Are the big european ones called Scolopax major now?
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Posted: Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 08:10 pm |
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Scolopax rusticola, actually, but still of the Scolopacidae family (becasseaux, sandpipers)
This is all from Google "taxonomic european woodcock" not from my feeble mind 
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Posted: Mon Mar 23rd, 2009 12:45 pm |
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| An AH with rails engraved on the floorplate..........let's see now, where's my Norvasc?
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Posted: Mon Mar 23rd, 2009 12:51 pm |
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| Mike Jenson, a local guy, is selling the gun. I'm not interested in it, but if a person has a real interest in the gun and would like me to look at it for them, let me know. Obviously, the gun will take some work. Last edited on Mon Mar 23rd, 2009 01:00 pm by Bruce Day
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Posted: Mon Mar 23rd, 2009 02:49 pm |
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| I'm with Destry. Those are snipe on the Browning gun.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23rd, 2009 03:58 pm |
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| Can't be. You use a burlap bag for snipe, not a shotgun. Anybody who was a Boy Scout knows that.
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