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Stan Hillis 12-20-2025 12:46 AM

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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Stan Hillis 12-20-2025 01:00 AM

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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Stan Hillis 12-20-2025 01:04 AM

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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Rick Roemer 12-20-2025 03:15 AM

Wow, impressive!

Bill Murphy 12-20-2025 03:17 AM

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

Garry L Gordon 12-20-2025 07:52 AM

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

Stan Hillis 12-20-2025 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy (Post 440817)
Stan, my friend, the Repro has 32" barrels? The Honker has 34" barrels?

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.

Bill Murphy 12-20-2025 10:18 AM

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

Phil Yearout 12-20-2025 12:37 PM

Quite an array!

Mike Koneski 12-20-2025 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis (Post 440823)

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


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