A 10 gauge on a #2 frame is about as useful as tits on a boar in my opinion. You couldn't shoot heavy waterfowling loads in it, it would beat you to death. I've got one on a #3 frame and it still kicks like a mule with 3 1/2 inch shells. I'd imagine a #2 with heavy 2 7/8 shells would be just as bad or worse.
Remington marked a lot of the 3 inch 12 gauge guns on the barrel lug. Makes them pretty easy to spot. Plus the barrels on at least some of them have an odd contour to add meat to the chambers so that's another quick tell. I hear there's one for sale at the Vintagers with a heavy price tag if anybody wants to check it out and give a report.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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