James
Here are two more 3 frames only 13 years apart. The first a 10/12 bore 2BS from 1892 and the second a 12 bore from 1905. Both with 32 inch barrels.
The patterns certainly changed over that span of time. Earlier having considerably more detail.
With that understood - I cannot figure how you or anyone could get away from that 36" gun! Those opportunities are few and far between in my world.
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“I never wrote a poem in my life. But if I ever do, it will be about ducks.”
– Gordon MacQuarrie, The Last Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, 1985
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