Recently Discovered......GHE .410
 

While I was reading the latest issue of Shooting Sportsman magazine, I noticed Julia listing a [I]Recently Discovered[I] spectacular GHE .410 ona 00 frame w/ makers carboard box and hang tags !!!:shock:

Man, that's one fine squirrel gun!

Just another 'Holy Grail'.

I'm sure there's still room in one of my safes :cool:

I hated to part with it but I needed some money for a H & R topper Im having restored.

Serial number 231691 would be about a 1929 vintage gun, yet the box label says it was targetted with 3/4 ounce of #7 shot. The .410-bore 3-inch cartridge with 3/4 ounce of shot didn't come out until mid-1933 with the Winchester Model 42 pump. In 1929, the 2-inch .410-bore cartridge carried 3/10 ounce of shot and the 2 1/2 inch .410-bore cartridge 3/8 ounce of shot.

That 3/4 ounce of #7 shot contains 224 pellets. The label says the gun printed 127 R, 127/224 = 56.7% and 136 L, 136/224 = 60.7%.

Did this gun languish in inventory for over four years until the 3-inch .410-bore cartridge came out? None of my Winchester, Western, or Remington ammunition catalogues from the early years of the 3-inch .410-bore cartridge offer it with #7 shot.

Curious

Researcher, $40 will buy a synopsis of the stock book entry, if PGCA has it. The stock book entry will tell something about the actual dates of production. OOPS! Too bad, no PGCA research information available.