Interesting Configuration

[mobirdhunter]

Dean, that’s a wonderfully unique gun. So what do you use it for?

[Dean Weber]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Dean, that’s a wonderfully unique gun. So what do you use it for?

Garry,

I sense you are asking the same question I am asking, why? Not to be a smarty pants, but currently, I decorate around it. I bought it some years back due to its unique configuration and its condition. It fit a niche in my collection.

If my research is correct, there are something like 4 DHE 16 gauges with 24" Titanic barrels. 3 in the 170's and this one. The forend is not mentioned in the letter but it does have the reinforced forend loop and I do not question the authenticity.

Dean

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dean Weber

Garry,

I sense you are asking the same question I am asking, why? Not to be a smarty pants, but currently, I decorate around it. I bought it some years back due to its unique configuration and its condition. It fit a niche in my collection.

If my research is correct, there are something like 4 DHE 16 gauges with 24" barrels. 3 in the 170's and this one. The forend is not mentioned in the letter but it does have the reinforced lug and I do not question the authenticity.

Dean

It is indeed unique…and merits decorating around.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Dean Weber

The forend is not mentioned in the letter but it does have the reinforced lug and I do not question the authenticity.

Dean

I assume it has the draw bolt in the front of the beavertail ?

[David Noble]

Originally Posted by Dean Weber

The forend is not mentioned in the letter but it does have the reinforced forend loop and I do not question the authenticity.

Dean

Dean, my GHE 16ga Skeet gun Ser. 239842 is identical to yours but with 28" barrels. In the serialization book it codes the same as yours however my letter does state in a later Remington document that it had the beavertail forend. I would definitely thank yours is correct and original.
Beautiful gun!

[Dean Weber]

Craig,
It is a 1 frame.

[stumpstalker]

Maybe the gun’s odd configuration, by American standards, i.e., short barrels with tight chokes, was influenced by the success, starting in the 1920s, of the Churchill XXV. (The Roman numerals signified the model's perforce 25-inch barrel length.)

It was choked tight enough, according to Chris Batha in his article below, for driven Pheasants at an average of 30 yards.

https://shootingsportsman.com/the-churchill-xxv/

[todd allen]

I'm not an open choke guy, but in a 12 ga, cylinder chokes will break skeet targets all day long.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by todd allen

I'm not an open choke guy, but in a 12 ga, cylinder chokes will break skeet targets all day long.

Full choke will break them all day long if you’ve got your head in the game . The average skeet target I think is 20-22 yards tops . Choke for all intents and purposes is an irrelavent commodity . Once one’s learned the game and understands you have more time than you originally thought it’s not difficult with tight chokes . When I shot competitively I had changeable chokes on the subgauge insert tubes and when practicing I always shot tighter chokes then for registered I used the more open chokes . The hardest part of skeet is keeping your mind in the game for 100 different milliseconds . Mechanics of the game are 5-15% but the nut on the stock is the other 85-95% .

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

The hardest part of skeet is keeping your mind in the game for 100 different milliseconds . Mechanics of the game are 5-15% but the nut on the stock is the other 85-95% .

True words on skeet. Same for trap, IMO.