There are some interesting things about the Watsons 4 bores .
Watsons also offers 2 different chambering in 4 bore if you perhaps wanted a lighter gun and recoil but still get the patterning benefits of a 4 bore .


Im not sure if I will pickup another double in 2021 , Theres a few rifles I would like to get .

SBT, that’s it. 😁

Mike, please write the specifications and brand of the single trap you desire. And Milton, what rifles do you wish to add to your collection?

Add a CH 2 barrel set with Bernard barrels to my list. . . . One shipped to Charleston

Mills you are the man! Pics please.

Unfortunately, that is just the wish list for 2021 and not the new stuff in 2020

Already on one. SC 32” with great dimensions. Shooter, not a collector piece.

2021 Shopping "Wish List"
 

Parker Catalogues, Parker Advertising Art...

The CH 8 gauge with 36" fluid steel barrels that was sent to the DuPont ballistics laboratory in Wilmington DE c.1917.

Im excited to see what Ruger does with the Marlin line now they own it .
There are a few other lever actions I wouldnt mind getting as well like the Uberti 1876 . Most guys seem to prefer the 1886s but to me the 76' is a more interesting rifle .

I also find cold war rifles to be interesting as well , like the the variants of FALs that were built . The portuguese ar10 wish someone would make a reproduction of those .

Something else that has caught my attention is the big bore air rifles .
XP airguns offers a 20mm which seems hilarious and I kind of want one .

Wow , I have always wondered if Parkers built a 8 gauge higher than a D grade as thats the highest grade 8 gauges I have seen offered in the catalogs .

Kevin, our old friend Norman Strebe, who had the gun store in District Heights, had a steel barrel CH grade 8. I wonder if it's the same gun or maybe it went to New Jersey? Could there be two, or maybe three steel barrel CH 8s? Who knew there were so many DH grade steel 8s, and so many for sale at one time? Does anyone have seventy grand to spare?

Two with Acme barrels - one 34” the other 36”

Of course, there could be more if we extrapolate for missing books.




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"Just" is a word that should never be used in front of 26". Fashion is fashion, and it changes over time. Live long enough and it will all come around again. I have my eye on a nice higher grade lightweight 12 1 frame gun that would take close birds with it's nice 26" barrels.

If by Jersey you mean the guy that had the 7 or 8 Smith 8’s I’ve been hearing a couple rumors that stuff may surface soon .

For many many many years I thought 26” was the perfect length of a side by side . Now I still love 26” guns but I’m pretty much open to anything that’s factory original . Hate to say it but my sporting clays scored took a northward trend when I went to a pair of VH 30” guns a 12 and a 16 . And I’m slowly starting to like 32” 12’s and of course 10’s . Matter of fact I made a deal tonight for a DH 12 32” 2 frame which I’ll send a check for Saturday or Monday , so I suppose that’ll be my first indiscretion of 2021 :rotf:

That guy was Bernie Libratti and he passed about 5 years ago. I speak to his wife on occasion and as of now, she has not decided to move anything yet. Bernie had 8 Smith 8 bores several Parker 8 bores including a C grade titanic steel bbl 36” long He had a myriad of British and European 4, 6,and 8 bore guns and several large frame Parker 10 ga. guns

That be the one . Tom Armbrust was telling me about another guy as well I think he said from Jersey that passed and his collection was dispersed at one of the auction houses , Tom also said this fellow was big into 8 gauge and above stuff . Of which most of the Brit/Euro stuff went back across the pond . Do you know who this person was as I do not remmember the name he gave .

No I don’t Craig but it’s not Bernie’s stuff. Bernie never mentioned another person from NJ that I can recall.

I’m going to pm you a story on your Brutus and it’s origin

You knew that gun before ? Well before the gentleman I obtained it from owned it ? I will say Brutus really wants a 6 frame hammerless brother .

I’ll see what I can do

I have it all, but then again that's not much compared to a lot of you. I've moved into my 2nd 30 gun safe awhile back. Now I'm wishing I only had a handfull of my favorites. I've some nice graded in small and larger bore in all the early American doubles. Thanks to a close friend, I'm still acquiring! He knows my weaknesses....
I'm not a collector, I'm a shooter, I find myself shooting the field grade guns I started out with, the Sterlys, the VHs, the Smiths. I have some nice shooters, thanks to some good friends/members, but I'm finding I'm content with the simple plain ones. I, like others may thin the herd and upgrade to something special one day. My only problem is I just hate letting go of anything. My good friend told me, "it's the thrill of the chase, we buy, sell, and move on to the next one", he's right at that!
Chris, AZ

A nice 20 ga Caesar Guerini Magnus with 26 inch barrels and case colored frame.
also a clean SBT would be nice and another 20 ga Parker in any grade

I learned the best way for me to keep a gun long term is to buy ones I cant replace or find another of haha .



I hadnt planned on buying a double again anytime soon but recently found a Lefever 10 gauge I really like .

The year is only one day old and I find myself fighting off the desire to bid on a couple of guns. Yep it's the trill of the hunt and the frictionless commerce made possible by the internet. I wonder how long I can hold out!! So far I have managed to keep my finger off the BID button!!

I made a bid already this am, but was outbid.

Hang in there we’ve still got 361 more shopping days to go :rotf:

Yeah, what Craig said!!

Mills your a couple of years to late.:rolleyes: I sold a CHE 16 two barrel set with Bernard barrels and if memory serves me it was a straight grip skeleton but.

Craig I'm fighting the urge for another single shot rifle. Our deer season goes from November 15 through January 1 with the exception of 3 days in December. I hunted 95%+ of those days and only took a bolt gun twice. Actually it was two different guns. I took 11 different rifles deer hunting. I've fallen hard for nice single shots:eek:

How about shooting for the moon. The A1 Special 28-gauge two barrel set that C.T. "Buck" Buckman used hunting quail in California that he bought from W.O. Rowley in Dallas, Texas, for $3000.

The only way I could afford it though is if my Wife hits the lottery.

I wish lightning would strike twice. I'm on my way to South Carolina to deliver Nellie to the trainer, last year on the same trip the AH 10ga Boston expo gun was listed on GI. I bought it and it is a favorite. I'm away from my TPS but I recall only 10 were made in 10ga 32"".

My shopping list consists of the Parker story, the Ed Muderlak book, and the gun serialization book along with a VH or VHE grade 12 gauge as a shooter with 28” barrels. I got the books now I need the gun : )

I’m down to a pair of Ruger #1’s a 22-250 AI and a 243 . I however wouldn’t mind a 1A in 6.5x55 or 6.5x54 MS or 260 REM or 6.5x57 . And as much as I hate to say it a Blaser K95 in 6.5x57R or 6.5x65R RWS would be rather intresting .

Right now, the goal for 2021 is bringing back a GH 16 0 frame that is a project even by my standards. It may not happen but we will see. I also bought my son Mills a John Deere bulldozer that is a project too.

There can't be many of these. I think my heart skipped a beat reading this.

You got him a JD B bulldozer or a model ?

Every boy needs a bull dozer :rotf::rotf:

Mills, be careful on the dozer rebuild.I bought my brother an antique HI Tractor with all the attachments. What he has spent on a total rebuild I'd have bought him a good used Purdey.