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Close but no cigar

I have a three inch 20 also, it is a GHE, ball grip, 30" PST tubes, splinter on a 2 frame, SN 157187. The pic is the ass end of a "2" frame next to a "0" frame set of barrels. Sort of looks like a .600 Nitro Express. Maybe we can start a 2 frame 20 club.

I still wonder about my little VHE 20 ga. with 3 inch chambers, 176850 but it has 26" barrels. Will a letter possibly confirm if it was ordered as a 3 inch chamber gun?

There is factory information on 176850. It may or may not address the chamber length IF it was ordered that way.

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Men - As promised a few photos. Clearly I am not a photographer. The one in the rack gives a nice glimpse of the tall 32's next to my "go to early season" DH 20 with 28" barrels on a 0 frame for duck hunting.

Michael, do you have a PGCA letter on 157,187?

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Originally Posted by Craig Larter (Post 180798)

Dave: How about these 3" 20ga shells. I would guess being from California they were used.
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Great box of shells. I love that they give the actual wadding on the label, "Thin Grease Proof and 3 Black Edge" --

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Truly a custom load, UMC wads in a U.S. Cartridge Co. AJAX case with Schultze powder and Selby shot.

The Remington - UMC boxes of long 20-gauge shells I have or have seen just have a "Special Wadding" label --

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From some of the old west coast shoot reports in my archives, it seems the big ammo companies in the east shipped a lot of NPEs out west to be loaded by local companies of which Selby in California was certainly the largest. California Powder Works was another large one. Honeyman Hardware in Portland, Piper & Taft in Seattle, Hardy Hall in Seattle, Miller Bros. in Tacoma and Ware Bros. here in Spokane.

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Bill, no I do not.

Spin

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Originally Posted by MARK KIRCHER (Post 180871)

If I might ask what is the gun on the far right with the beavertail ?

My big 2-frame early GH-Grade 32-inch 12-gauge weighs over nine pounds. It got a later set of 32-inch long 3-inch chambered Vulcan Steel barrels that swamp in very fast and give it a weight of 8 pounds 4.5 ounces. The barrel flat weight on the 20-gauge barrels is 4 -5 --

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any idea what the 153 means?

The 12-gauge Damascus barrels have a weight stamp on the flats of 5 -8 --

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