a Beretta hammer 8 bore ?????
 

a thread on the doublegunshop board

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...gonew=1#UNREAD

links to an auction
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDeta...59302#topoflot

a hammer 8 with almost 40 inch barrels?? :shock:

-A) Engraved P. Beretta Large Bore Side by Side Hammer Shotgun
Manufactured 1968. 4" chamber, modified/full chokes, 15 3/4" LOP.

Manufacture: Beretta Pietro
Model: Double Barrel
BBL: 39 1/2 inch solid rib
Stock: walnut
Gauge: 8
Finish: blue/casehardened
Grips:
Serial Number: 13024
Class: Modern Long Gun

sell the farm Charlie :whistle:

Wow! Wonder what that lot is going to end up going for?

mighty nice 8 ga for sure..only thing wrong i aint got enough loose change to get this fine 8 ga...i know a fellow who s got a fine i believe a churchhill 8 ga.. now i know why my grandma told me to save for a rainy day but im sure she meant a 8 ga day...i wonder if those folks would take in some rusty iron in on trade...charlie

4'' Chambers. Man that would be a sweet gun.

Don't ever remember seeing the Beretta 8 before but I do remember seeing adds in the old Shooters Bible for the Zephyer single barrel 10 !

I'd kinda like to have that single barrel !

Craig i had such gun . 36" barrel gun looked mint paid 350$ for . i can post pics later

My 36" Honker is a really nice ten gauge. The advertised weight of about ten and a half pounds is Stoeger advertising hype. Mine weighs in the low to mid nines, a real handy gun.

I'm planning on buying my first 8 bore soon
just waiting on those slow w2s

I bought an eight gauge for $601.00 not long ago. I discussed it in the "other doubles" subforum.

Back in the late 1890s, early 1900s, a company in Rhode Island (Providence Tool/Arms?) (I can't remember the name) made a neat hammer single barreled 8 gauge. Either 34 or 36" barrels. A local gun shop in Syracuse had one hanging frum the ceiling. I first saw it in 1976 when I moved back to central NY from Mass. The dealer wanted $1500 and would not budge. I told him he was slightly daft and a few years later bought my first Parker double 8 gauge for around $2500. As far as I know, that single 8 is still hanging in Syracuse.