good luck with your measuring i hope your barrels turn out ok...love those long barrels....charlie

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Jeff,
I would be glad to measure the barrel wall thickness for you. I am not venturing far from Sioux Falls these days but we said we were gonna shoot skeet sometime soon so let's get it done.

Best,
Dean

At the time this gun was made, our North American ammunition manufacturers were not providing heavier 12-gauge loads in the longer 2 7/8 inch and 3-inch shells than could be had in a 2 3/4 inch shell -- 3 1/2 drams of bulk smokeless powder or 28 grains of dense smokeless powder such as Infallible or Ballistite pushing 1 1/4 ounces of shot.

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What the longer shells offered was more/better wading.

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and some of the long shells didn't even have the stoutest loads --

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Dean, been thinking about you.I remember you saying you had a good wall thickness gauge.If it weren't for this virus going on I would have called you.I figured you might be swamped with your job.Ive been laying low mostly,maybe being plenty cautious but I don't want to get sick this time of year.I have too many things to get ready for field work,which is hopefully a couple weeks away.Sounds like it's supposed to get cold again for a while.Ill see how things go and maybe contact you later in the week,Jeff.

Thanks for the info Joe.

The little I have shot this gun has been with some 1 oz light trap loads and 1 1/4 oz bismuth 5s that I reloaded.I used the first load in the chart on hodgdon web site with a new cheddite hull at 7700 psi.I figured that should be mild enough,and they worked great.Maybe I can get together with Dean and get the walls measured correctly to see if its plenty safe to shoot.I think the place I ordered my gauge from might be temporarily closed.I was informed they were on back order.Thanks to everyone who has offered information about this gun.

I found out a little more info possibly about this gun.My wife works for a printing company in Sioux Falls S.D. and prints the brosheurs for the Crooks Gun Club.Anyway she has a file on hand for the S.D trapshooters and found that in 1929,an A. Wallace from Canton S.D. was the 16 yard winner with a 193.Thomas Wallace,who we think first had this gun had a brother named Albert.I will have to see if there is any more info from the ATA.I found this interesting,just thought I would share it.

I wonder if LA84 Foundation would have anything on him...





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