a Beretta hammer 8 bore ?????

[Rick Losey]

a thread on the doublegunshop board

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=390654&gonew=1#UNREAD

links to an auction
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=3693&aid=90086&lid=22926648&rts=/asp/searchadvanced_i.asp%23searchid%3D34477294%26type% 3Dlot%26search%3DBeretta%26sort%3Drelevance%26leng th%3D25%26start%3D1%26refine%3D%26nc%3D14214419593 02#topoflot

a hammer 8 with almost 40 inch barrels?? :shock:

-A) Engraved P. Beretta Large Bore Side by Side Hammer Shotgun
Manufactured 1968. 4" chamber, modified/full chokes, 15 3/4" LOP.

Manufacture: Beretta Pietro
Model: Double Barrel
BBL: 39 1/2 inch solid rib
Stock: walnut
Gauge: 8
Finish: blue/casehardened
Grips:
Serial Number: 13024
Class: Modern Long Gun

sell the farm Charlie :whistle:

[Mike Franzen]

Wow! Wonder what that lot is going to end up going for?

[charlie cleveland]

mighty nice 8 ga for sure..only thing wrong i aint got enough loose change to get this fine 8 ga...i know a fellow who s got a fine i believe a churchhill 8 ga.. now i know why my grandma told me to save for a rainy day but im sure she meant a 8 ga day...i wonder if those folks would take in some rusty iron in on trade...charlie

[Eldon Goddard]

4'' Chambers. Man that would be a sweet gun.

[CraigThompson]

Don't ever remember seeing the Beretta 8 before but I do remember seeing adds in the old Shooters Bible for the Zephyer single barrel 10 !

I'd kinda like to have that single barrel !

[Milton Starr]

Don't ever remember seeing the Beretta 8 before but I do remember seeing adds in the old Shooters Bible for the Zephyer single barrel 10 !

I'd kinda like to have that single barrel !

Craig i had such gun . 36" barrel gun looked mint paid 350$ for . i can post pics later

[Bill Murphy]

My 36" Honker is a really nice ten gauge. The advertised weight of about ten and a half pounds is Stoeger advertising hype. Mine weighs in the low to mid nines, a real handy gun.

[Milton Starr]

I'm planning on buying my first 8 bore soon
just waiting on those slow w2s

[Bill Murphy]

I bought an eight gauge for $601.00 not long ago. I discussed it in the "other doubles" subforum.

[Bill Zachow]

Back in the late 1890s, early 1900s, a company in Rhode Island (Providence Tool/Arms?) (I can't remember the name) made a neat hammer single barreled 8 gauge. Either 34 or 36" barrels. A local gun shop in Syracuse had one hanging frum the ceiling. I first saw it in 1976 when I moved back to central NY from Mass. The dealer wanted $1500 and would not budge. I told him he was slightly daft and a few years later bought my first Parker double 8 gauge for around $2500. As far as I know, that single 8 is still hanging in Syracuse.

[Bill Zachow]

Bill, after I read your post I went back and looked at your one about the Davenport. That was the name of the gun I described above. Was I correct that it was made in Rhode Island?

[Milton Starr]

I always wanted one of those 8 ga Davenports .
Couldnt never find one though under 2k . Seen a few for sale
but not something i could pay over 1500$ for .

[charlie cleveland]

there were 2 davenport single barrels forsale on gunbroker here while back they did not sale that i know of..one was mint i think the price was 1500 on one and 1200 on the real nice one..also a shattuck 8 ga single with 36 inch barrel that weighed 13 1/2 lbs..never seen that many 8 ga single barrels at one time...once there was a davenport for sale on a british gun auction site it had fluid steel barrel and a 4 inch chamber sale price was about 1700 americn dollars i wanted that gun bad but could not figer how to get it back to the usa at that time...charlie

[Bill Murphy]

The Beretta sold a couple of hours ago and I was not aggressive in my bidding and lost it. If someone here was the successful bidder, please let us know.

[Eldon Goddard]

Bill I watched on the internet live. Was going to bid but my max 2200 went by so fast it did not even matter. I did not expect the 5000 hammer price that is close to 6000 depending on buyers premium.

[charlie cleveland]

i seen a ultra nice belgium 10 ga this evening it was a modern 3 1/2 inch gun..much nicer than most spanish 10 ga...really nice gun...i just ca nt buy all of them thats the trouble...this 8 ga double woulda been a nice one....charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Bill Zachow, Providence, Rhode Island and Norwich, Connecticut. Mine was made in Norwich.

[Dave Noreen]

A pair of Davenport 8-gauge singles changed hands in Las Vegas.