A menagerie of long legged girls . . . .
 

Here are a few 32" girls that posed for a mid-afternoon photo shoot.
The sun's rays are good this time of year for pics on the south side of the old farm commissary building.

Left to right:

AH Fox A grade straight hand grip w/ 3" chambers
AH Fox BE
AH Fox HE, 3" chambers
LC Smith 3E, 3" chambers, HOT
Westernfield New Model
LC Smith 16 ga., FWE, HOT
Parker DHE 16/20, 20 ga. bbis in place
Iver Johnson Special Trap
Ithaca Super Ten grade 3

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And a few 30" girls, with one 28". . . .

AH Fox 12 ga. Sterlingworth
AH Fox 12 ga. Sterlingworth Ejector
BSS 12 ga.
Savage Fox Model B
Remington 1889
FAIR Iside Tartaruga Gold .410
AH Fox Sterlingworth Ejector 20 ga.
Not pictured: AH Fox AE grade 16 ga. and Dickinson Estate .410, both w/ 30" bbls.


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And lastly, a couple long, tall Sallys . . . .

Sarasqueta Honker w/ 36" barrel (bbl. length corrected, thanks Bill)
Remmie 870 Wingmater w/ factory 34" VR trap barrel (buttplate removed awaiting pad)

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Wow, impressive!

Stan, my friend, the Repro has 32" barrels? The Honker has 34" barrels?

Dove and ducks beware! A darned nice arsenal, Stan.

My bad, Bill. The Sarasqueta, of course, has a 36" barrel. Typo will be corrected. Thanks!

I don't have a Repo. Which one were you referring to, the DHE? It was completed in 1928/29.

A little more info. The Wingmaster barrel was backbored by a former cardshooter for extremely tight patterns. It is now .062" constriction (XXXXF ? :whistle:). I've shot a few sporting clays with it and found it handles surprisingly well. I do not expect it to pattern well with larger (5s, 4s, etc.) shot for waterfowl, but will get around to testing it eventually.

Stan, I don't know how I got a Repro in my head. Great guns.

Quite an array!

Stan, Askins wrote about diminishing returns with chokes being too tight with larger shot resulting in blown patterns.

I found that out in my younger days when I hunted deer with hounds, on drives. I wanted the tightest patterns possible with the largest buckshot possible. I learned that 00 was the largest size I could use through a Full choke without getting flyers. Federal Premium 00 was copper plated and patterned the best of all.

Let’s remember, Askins was writing about paper shells with fiber wads and bare shot. A far cry from modern shells with the shot cushioned on setback and protected from scrubbing during the bore run, both by polymer shotcups.

He also hated the "slow" and "light" shells we routinely shoot. You know, 12g, 7/8 oz at 1170.

I like what my doubles like, i.e. what they regulate with. Not all vintage doubles regulate with light, fast loads. I have found that some need slow, heavy for gauge loads to print both barrels to the same POI.

I'm convinced that, sadly, many vintage double owners never pattern their guns for POI, and wonder why they can't hit well with them.