But but but, I thought any differences between C's and D's were minor and insignificant!!


Nice guns guys. I am a real fan of the C grades .

Bruce, my point was that the C I was looking at didn't have any significant differences from a D. As I said there are Cs with distinctive engraving and Bernard barrels. This particular gun has neither of those. If I find a c with bernards or distinctive engraving in my budget (unlikely), I will certainly consider it, but when the guns have no difference except one has wrap around checkering and the other doesn't, I don't feel the need to pay a premium for the C , sorry.

There are those C's that are blah but lots of them are pretty neat. Most pre 1900 had deer engraving, then 1900 to 1905 25 percent had rondels and an interesting bottom engraving, then the rest until the early 1920 had five pheasant or ducks flying After 1925 or so things got interesting again with great engraving patterns and sometimes unusual stock details.

Look until you find one you can't live without. I've seen a bunch of great ones.

Here is a Later C with some small non-typical details in the checkering pattern. Namely the little Bit of carving behind the drop point.


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I have a DH arriving tomorrow that I expect to check that box!