What Grade is this gun?

[B. Dudley]

Not the first grade 2 with an SSBP that I have seen. It is the second. An oddity for sure.

[Bill Murphy]

I own a Grade 2 with skeleton butt and know of others. A PGCA letter may give some clues about this great gun.

[Dean Romig]

John, yours is another one of those P Laminated Steel barreled Grade 2 guns.

Very unusual that it has a skeleton steel butt plate, but as others have said, others are known to exist.

Here's a Grade-0 No. 10165 that I've shown before, with some very unusual features including a SSBP. Note, there is no checkering at all... even on the butt within the SSBP.





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[B. Dudley]

But they sculpted the bolsters... Interesting.

[Dean Romig]

That's just one of the unusual features....

[B. Dudley]

It looks like it has like 4" of drop.

[Dean Romig]

Austin's had easily the same amount of drop but it was even more pronounced, being a straight grip lifter. His was also a 20 ga. on the same diminutive frame size... 15/16" between strikers.