Good Deed for the Month
 

I went and looked at an L.C. Smith of a friends. 12 gauge 28'' extractor gun with FW serial number. It has been totally reblued badly. The bores looked ok and the barrels rang somewhat. Overall the gun just needed a good cleaning little bit of rust and grime. Anyways the first thing he says is he wants to cut the barrels down to 20'' and make a coach gun. I talked him out of it and now he wants to take it shooting. So at least one barrel saved from chopping block.

Good Work Eldon!!!!

Education is key to appreciation of these fine old doubles.

I will never understand why people don't just go and buy a cheap Stoger coach gun.

Who on earth would want to cut down a beautiful old double down to 20"???? Great if you are taking a wagon train through uncharted territory, but that was over 100 years ago

Never understood it either but I always liked long barrels. He says his brother back east has a parker in the closet "but it is one of those damascus barrels so you can't shoot it". Trying to get him educated on damascus barrels too.

Lots of misinformed people out there for sure.

There can never be enough caution taken when bandits and highwaymen abound! Why just the other day we got word via telegram that injuns had attacked a couple of villages over the bluff. Sure is good to know that the boys out there have a good coach gun to keep em safe. :rotf:

I want to apologize ahead of time for my incredibly insensitive use of the term "injuns". My wife has made me promise to undergo sensitivity re-education, not to mention switching my NFL affiliation from Washington to Baltimore.

No apology necessary. "injuns" connotes the vernacular of a period in our nation's history, a colloquialism really, that we have no responsibility for nor that we should apologize for.
If we use the word malevolently, then we should be censored.

Too bad somebody wasn't around to save this one. 19" now.

Looks mean, but still.....

There oughta be a law

:crying::crying::crying:

:cuss::cuss::cuss:

Heck, my favorite ten, a BH World's Fair gun, is right on 18". I like it just fine. David, tell us about your 19" gun.

Bill, it's a grade 3 10ga #3 frame. I think it had 30" barrels originally. Serial # 33475 from 1883.
Found it at the Tulsa gun show. It was just hacked sawed off at about 19 1/4" and not finished out. Made an offer on it and got it. I redid the end and filled the gaps with solder.
Too bad it got cut but perhaps the barrels were damaged and someone decided to make it a coachgun. All matching numbers through out. I'm watching for replacement barrels if any one knows of some.

and right now on the Clark's Classic bamboo rod board there is a post from a guy who found a 30" 16 Elsie in a LGS and wanted everyone's opinion on it as an upland gun.

one of the first bits of advice from someone (who would likely scream bloody murder if you altered a Leonard or Payne rod) was to cut it back to 27 or 28"

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that ten with short barrels ought to be great on covey rises.ha somebody a lot of years ago never knew when taking that hacksaw to those barrels that in the future woula wished they had left them barrels alone... charlie

I think I'm gonna be sick