32's are about the max length for me. I just picked up a nice DH live bird gun with a flat rib. Someone had a Pachmeyer type pad on it but the stock didn't appear cut. It's getting a new Silvers. I let go of a nice DHE 32 inch gun for this one. Both of these were straight grip also.

I did an appraisal on a collection yesterday that had a 34" DH pigeon gun with a straight grip stock with a 15"LOP over an old Silvers pad and built on a #3 frame.The owner has had the gun for 40 years and does not want to sell it.It balances dead on the hinge pin. When you mount the gun the front bead is a long way out there.

This one was built on a 2 Frame as I recall from the email the fellow sent me. Would have been interesting to see what the weight was when it left the factory.

Yes Tom, a 2-frame.






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That does look like one butchered up gun, but the barrels alone make it worth having if they are in good shape.

The nice thing with those long barrels is once you get them moving it's hard to stop them. I have always been amazed watching Mark Ouellette swing a 36 inch 10ga on the sporting clays course, it just seems like work to me.

It is work Rich - I've shot that gun at Hausmann's at the low crossing grouse station on the way uphill from the pond. Mark does it pretty well but I didn't. I guess marines are just better at that sort of thing.






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They had been redone as I recall. For the right person it can be something special as long as they keep writing the checks.

Destry can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was with his Swamp Angel that I made the best duck shot of my life, while hunting with him on Lk St. Clair. A very fast crossing shot on a duck the size of a small goose and going mach 2. I hit it so centered that there wasn't much on one side to salvage. That's one hell of a gun.

Sometimes it is the arrow and not the Indian.