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Unread 09-01-2023, 05:43 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Ken Descovich View Post
So far for the first L.C. Smith sxs with factory Vent Rib is March 6th 1925 on a eagle grade, I say first meaning that one individual has reported this on the L.C. Smith website there could be a earlier gun not reported yet.
Ken
Coincidentally, I was reading the LC Smith Summer 2022 Journal this afternoon and it talks about the Trap and Skeet guns. It says that the LC Smith SBT (aka One Barrel Trap Gun) was introduced in 1917 with a “Compensating Ventilated Top Rib”.
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