Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
There are certainly "True" skeet guns that are guns ordered as Skeet guns as per the catalogs and I would think that these guns would be also choked and marked as such Skeet-In and Skeet-Out. As cataloged, the skeet guns would be straight grip, BTFE, checkered butt, SST and Skeet chokes. To me the Skeet Choking is the trump card. That is the first and foremost in defining a true skeet gun. If the customer wanted a skeet gun, but preferred a pistol grip, or a recoil pad, there were plenty of true skeet guns ordered like that. Also Double triggers would fall into that personal preference category. The BTFE is something that I cannot imagine someone not wanting on their skeet target gun.
Barrel length will also come into play as shorter barrels were considered the standard for the early days of Skeet shooting.
There are certainly many guns made that one would call "Skeet configured" in that they have BTFE, Checkered butt and Straight grip, but they are choked tighter than skeet, ie: IC/M or M/F, etc... If the gun does not have the Skeet markings, then I would not call it any other than a "Skeet Configured" gun. Not an official "Skeet Gun".
|
The trump card for me is not necessarily the Skeet In - Skeet Out stamps on the barrel flats, but the fact that the factory records record it as a "Skeet gun."
In the case of mine, 236912 a 1935 gun preceding the adoption of the desirable Skeet stamps, all documentation supports it being a "Skeet gun" and I can't argue with that.
.
__________________
"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
|