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Ed Blake
08-29-2010, 04:51 PM
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=187726021

This gun is in the book as a 10 gauge damascus C-grade with ejectors from 1904.
scott kittredge
08-29-2010, 04:58 PM
:crying:
Dean Romig
08-29-2010, 05:02 PM
How sad...
Ed Blake
08-29-2010, 07:44 PM
Hey guys,

The hook, "Oh the humanity" was the commentary made by a radio announcer at the crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst NJ back in 1937.
Are we on the same scale here? Just a reality check.

With a C-grade 10 with ejectors? You betcha.
Mark Landskov
08-29-2010, 09:53 PM
In the family for 106 years? Uff Da! If the bores were rough, they coulda been honed (maybe?) Hmmmm....
Bill Murphy
08-30-2010, 08:44 AM
Such things were done in the sixties on a daily basis. Six pound barrels. Must have been quite a gun. Anyone volunteer to spring for a letter?
Bruce Day
08-30-2010, 03:32 PM
Mark, would you feel better if he had said " Oh the Hannity?"

It would remind you to watch Fox news more.....

PS Mark suggests that I trade my liberal icon SAAB convertible in on a Rush Limbaugh Limited Edition Cadillac Esplanade. I'll have to see what Sean Hannity drives. If not the Esplanade, maybe I'll look at the big Hummer, in camo.
Bill Murphy
09-02-2010, 12:52 PM
Maybe Bruce could rave about his Saab and get some kind of favor. GM was always kind to me for raving about my vehicles.
Austin W Hogan
09-02-2010, 01:35 PM
Bill; the photo is no longer up, but that 6 did not appear to be in the proper spot to be unstruck weight. I just checked a Dam 3 "light ten" on a two frame (DH). It has a 5 in that spot; finished weight is 4 4 to make an 8 1/2 pound gun. Perhaps single digit unstruck weights were stamped a little further left.
That 6 pound unstruck weight would have produced a 9 1/2 pound gun.

Best, Austin
Fred Preston
09-02-2010, 05:39 PM
My Trojan 16 weighs 6 pounds; the raw barrel weight is marked 3/8. Either it was mismarked or there was a whole lot of filing done.
Fred Preston
09-02-2010, 09:57 PM
I could edit my last post, but this will bring it back. I intended to post the facts of my 28" 16 Damascus GH 1 frame. Total weight, 6/12; present barrel weight, 2/14; marked raw barrel weight, 4/10. As misapplied to the Trojan, I think this one is either mismarked or spent a lot of time on the filer's bench.