My Remington 1900 is back home from the Smith with a new top lever spring. I used some lacquer thinner along with a toothbrush and it cleaned up very nice. A little bit of Tru-Oil and the gun looks a LOT better than it does in the earlier pictures. Looking forward to knocking down some crows with it.

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Looks great Pete! Hope to see it next time I'm up at Major Waldrons.

funny how a little elbow grease makes a gun look better... charlie

and the knockabout shoots pretty good too. It's a better trap gun then a skeet gun, broke a 25 straight first time at trap with it, 49x50 for the evening tonight. Look out crows (maybe) :)

I have a pretty nice 12ga Remington mod 1887 twist bbl hammer gun that is choked tight and breaks clays wayyy out there. I've had no issues with it other than one hammer screw keeps backing out. I have to make a special little punch to get in there and make the square end of the shaft fit the square hole in the hammer a bit tighter. It's a well made gun as far as I can tell. Vintage is 1895.

Richard I am still learning about Remington double guns, I believe the last model of hammer gun they made was the Model 1889.

I think you're right. Mine was made in 1895 if I remember correctly. I'm not home to check that. It was quite the rusty mess inside when I got it but cleaned up rather nicely. I posted a set of pictures on the forum of the cleaning operation and of the repair I did on one of the main springs.

Are you going to clean up the wood? I don't always do that, but if it is bad enough, I strip the stock and forearm, restain the put on some Murphy's oil.

I don't know if that hurts the value or not, but I don't like really rough wood.

That is a very nice gun. You can see it's Parker heritage.

Oh, as for shooting crows. They are smarter than mere humans. I can never get close enough to pop then with a shotgun. I lay off at 300 to even 400 yds and bang away with a 222.

Crow season is pretty much over, the birds have moved through and the 2nd half of waterfowl season is now open. The Remington knockabout did turn out to be a real good crow killer as I took 372 of them with 592 shots on the days when it got it's turn to go in the field. Remington made some nice functional double guns.

Whoa! There was a famous Lakota (I think he was a Lakota.) named Crow Killer and you deserve the handle too! Of course the Indian was killing a different kind of Crow, but still.......