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Mark Ray
02-09-2018, 11:48 AM
I was just now looking up a gunbroker offering in the book, and this gun
#159211 was a few numbers away!! That sucker could reach out and touch sumthin!!
Mark Ray
02-09-2018, 11:52 AM
159146 is a special piece too!!
Jeff Kuss
02-09-2018, 11:52 AM
There is a gh 8 ga. with 40" barrels on Julia's next auction.
Randy G Roberts
02-09-2018, 12:16 PM
I was just now looking up a gunbroker offering in the book, and this gun
#159211 was a few numbers away!! That sucker could reach out and touch sumthin!!

That's sort of funny to me Mark. I looked what has to be that same Gunbroker offering up yesterday. 159146 caught my eye. How about an A grade 16 ga with 32" tubes. I could make it work.
Mark Ray
02-09-2018, 12:23 PM
That's sort of funny to me Mark. I looked what has to be that same Gunbroker offering up yesterday. 159146 caught my eye. How about an A grade 16 ga with 32" tubes. I could make it work.

And an A1 Special to boot!!!!
Brian Dudley
02-09-2018, 01:54 PM
Here are some photos of a 40" (40.5" actually) NH 8g. built in 1899.

Gun weighs in at around 16.5 lbs. Un-struck weight on barrels was 12.5 lbs.

A 36" 8ga feels balanced compared to this cannon!

60240

60241

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Gerald McPherson
02-09-2018, 03:10 PM
Brian; It would take three like me to carry that thing where I live.Be rough on a covey rise though.
charlie cleveland
02-09-2018, 06:27 PM
thats a really nice 8 ga this is what i want SANTA CLAUSEto bring me for CHRISTMAS...this is one big gun the barrels weight about as much as a whole 8 ga gun....can you imagine setting in a duck blind with this cannon and have a big flock of green heads come over...would have loved to have been in that duck blind....charlie
Bill Murphy
02-09-2018, 10:43 PM
Steel barrel 40" gun? My kind of gun.
charlie cleveland
02-10-2018, 10:08 AM
bill you and me are on the same plane about those 40 inch barrels....my longest barrels on my 8 ga s are 36 inch but they need to be longer....charlie
Mills Morrison
02-10-2018, 10:18 AM
Mine has 34 inches. If the GH in Julia's is the one I think it is, it handles pretty well
todd allen
02-10-2018, 07:20 PM
I shot a 5 bird practice race with an 8 gauge, way back in the day. (An old friend from Sacramento, well, long story)
Can't remember bbl lengths, or how many ounces of 7 1/2 went with every trigger pull.
The gun was slow to start, but very smooth. Recoil was not crazy, and it would pole-axe a bird at the back fence.