Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 314779)

Whoa, Dean, a picture.

Originally Posted by Bruce Day (Post 314769)

I will have it.

You southern boys better bring a sweatshirt . It’s 28 and breezy outside here in northern Minnesota. I am thinking about wading out and breaking ice out to the clear water and see if I can catch some walleye for supper.

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 314829)

Austin's skeet gun, at least he referred to it that way, is one of the last lifters, 104,000 range. It is a #3 frame 32" full and full nine pound monster. I had seen it at a Pennsylvania Gun Collectors show probably 30 years ago. Clarence Bowman was sitting in the snack bar with the big gun laid on the table. I knew it was a rare gun and wanted to buy it. I asked Clarence about it and he quoted a very high price which I would not pay. Years later, I saw it with Austin, offered to buy it, but he refused to sell, saying that it was his favorite skeet gun. Years after that, it turned up in Austin's estate. At that point, I paid about three times what Clarence asked for it.

Originally Posted by Bruce Day (Post 314430)

The 10 gauge barrels for this number 2 framed CH are factory 26 inch and four blade Damascus. Both barrels are factory non choked cylinder. It is still a heavy gun, about 7 3/4 lbs, so I carry it a while then put it away. I have a case of 10’s from RST in 1 1/4 oz 5 shot and it makes most pheasant shots easy.

In the last few years I have been using a 7 lb Parker 12 ga 28” G top action hammer shot gun on much of my upland game hunting . I like the challenge of the external hammers.

I am heading north on Sunday for two to three weeks in the grouse woods then south to pheasant . Too warm here. I am taking some windshield de-icing fluid for Dick Dow. They don’t sell that stuff in SoCal, too many people there buy it for cheap alcohol and it would pollute the Los Angeles freeways.