New SxS's at the 3/4 point of 2024??

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

Reggie it seems as though I recall you having a high grade small bore that has some Southern IN roots unless it has left your possession. I guess 30" is not long enough for you long barrel aficionados

Been sort of a quiet year for me although I have been living vicariously through my friends and their acquisitions, seems as though most of them are doing quite well at finding some new toys.

I have faith in you ! You’ve still got three months to pull it out and buy a few before the New Year

[Chris Robenalt]

Craig, my eyes were drawn to the straight stock Fox just above the XE. Just curious what grade and gauge it was? I would have been all over that!

[6pt-Sika]

Went to the G&D preview about the only thing I could do with the four I liked was LOOK So nothing bought but I’m still culling reducing whatever one cares to call it !

[Craig Larter]

Originally Posted by Chris Robenalt

Craig, my eyes were drawn to the straight stock Fox just above the XE. Just curious what grade and gauge it was? I would have been all over that!

Chris: I am fortunate to own two straight grip XE's both 12ga 30".

[ArtS]

Bought quite a few but not a lot that are exceptional. I mostly buy what rings a bell.

Finished refurb of a G level lifter with Parker Lam barrels.

Found a nice little Cogswell&Harrison sideplate 20ga. Likewise a decent 410 single and same in 28. Both really old.

Bought a 1943 S3 that is configured exactly like my 1936 S2. Waiting on an early Lifter that is a low grade but looks really original and straight (paid too much).

Got a Webley 8ga double and a Scott 10 ga double, both around 1872. Both are the lightest double in the gauges I have ever handled and great condition.

Oddest may be a Verney Carron sliding breech single. It is a 10 ga and weighs 6 pounds. And no I haven't (and likely won't) shoot it. It is a very elegant gun due to its perfect function and minimalist mechanical design with only 35 total parts, screws and all. It is a waterfowl model and made for maybe 2 years before the war. They made only a few thousand total in all gauges over 30 some years. This model may have only a few in existence. They were never really marketed in the US and are pretty rare anywhere. This one is the only 10 ga I could find anywhere on the net. It looks brand new and is a really beautiful gun.

Three high grade trap singles to fill in the manufacturers in my collection.

A bunch of interesting European guns by unknown and unmarked makers that all have an odd feature and good quality build round out the year.

Probably about it for the year, although I have my eye on a really old 410 single with maybe a good provenance.

Missed a BHE with a highly suggestive provenance but a buttstock from a low grade Parker that the letter indicates may have never been useful based on it's original build specs. That is a story in it's own.

[Andy]

I got a well worn but wonderful fitting 16g on 0 frame VHE from JOSH LOEW and it's beyond what I expected. Will be a bird killing machine at 26" and choked Sk/Mod and my go to gun this year in Maine. Seems I'm having a love affair with 16g 0 framed Parkers : )

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

I got a well worn but wonderful fitting 16g on 0 frame VHE from JOSH LOEW and it's beyond what I expected. Will be a bird killing machine at 26" and choked Sk/Mod and my go to gun this year in Maine. Seems I'm having a love affair with 16g 0 framed Parkers : )

I love those open choked, short barreled Parkers for grouse. You got a good one!

[mobirdhunter]

The good wife permitted two small bore acquisitions: and AHE and BHE, both 20s with straight/splinter, two trigger configurations...and choked for hunting, not "killing" inanimate objects beyond my range to see.

[Larry the Gun Guy]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

The good wife permitted two small bore acquisitions: and AHE and BHE, both 20s with straight/splinter, two trigger configurations...and choked for hunting, not "killing" inanimate objects beyond my range to see.

Wow Gary; what about some pictures of those great guns. This is show and tell you know.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Larry Stauch

Wow Gary; what about some pictures of those great guns. This is show and tell you know.

Pictures to follow when these guns get blooded.