Nearly 50 years ago I got a Model 21 20-gauge 26-inch imp. cyl. & mod. with ejectors, beavertail forearm and double triggers, from N.F. Strebe who had a shop just outside the Washington, D.C. line in Maryland. At the time it was the only 20-gauge double I owned. About a year later I got a 20-gauge 28-inch Sterlingworth that weighs 5 pounds 14 ounces and the fraction of an ounce over seven pounds Model 21 flowed down the river of commerce. Now, my favorite 20-gauge is a Standard Weight, 28-inch, Superposed that weighs seven pounds!! And, I have a 1941 vintage 16-gauge Model 21 Skeet Gun that weighs 6 pounds 12 ounces.
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