40 inch barrels
 

I wish I could afford all of those 8 ga and 10 ga guns with the 10 inch barrels...I would be in parker heaven...some body s gona be a winner in this auction...charlie

But Charlie the wouldn't fit in your safe.
Bob Jurewicz

It's interesting that those RIAC guns would show up all at once. Someone has been monitoring our chatter and you long barrel aficionados have cause a glut in the market.:rotf:

As of now, I plan to go to the preview day at Rock Island. I'll start lifting weights again so I can handle those behemoths.

They are very interesting guns, from an interesting time period. I hope someone here gets one.

Charlie I love the big guns but even to me on a 8 or 4 bore double anything over 36" starts to look disproportionate like on my 6 frame from some angles my 32" barrels look stubby. I think on the big guns somewhere in the range of 34"-38" is where they look good any thing less or more looks odd to me. Then again this can be entirely dependent on the scale of the action/frame size also. Like recently Ive come to the conclusion a 4 bore double should always be a hammergun as the actions arent as chunky around the stock head.

How about the 12g with 40” barrels??? Talk about a rare one!

Don't think you want 10 inch barrels :rotf:

I'm most likely wrong but I think their estimations on worth for all three 40" guns are a good bit high . In the past I'd thought they made the estimations low but not on those three .

I must have missed the 40" 12 gauge. Milton, I think my 30" DH 8 gauge is in perfect proportion. At 10 pounds, I can still lift it.

The 8ga is very nice. Built in 1919 a year after the 8 was outlawed for waterfowl hunting which begs the question what was it intended for? 15 lbs 10oz king sized hippo for sure. That's 2 to 3 pounds heavier than most 36 inch 8's. A round of sporting clays would be a high intensity work out.

Thats 6 ounces lighter then my Charlie Hunter 36" gun I bought in Easton last year .