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Was it a breech birth?
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06-11-2021, 09:15 AM | #4 | ||||||
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Boy or girl?
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06-11-2021, 09:21 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Fess up. I'll bet you talk baby-talk to it. (I sure would!)
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That’s light. What length are the barrels?
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Wow, 2lbs 13 oz unstruck barrel weight for a 16, are they 26"? That is one light gun, never had one under 6 lbs. Great find, looks like a solid gun. I'd like to feed that baby some of my nice light 3/4 and 7/8 oz loads.
How is it choked?
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Thank you for the comments everyone, very funny! Harold, yes, it's 26" even though I've been looking for a year for one with 28" barrels on an O frame. Matches the serialization book and appears to be honest. There is a small stock repair, but looks like someone may have put a swivel in for a sling, so there's a plug. It's choked IM/F and damn I wish it was more open. Took it out an hour after I got it and did 19/25 at skeet (RST Falcon Lite #8) which for me is about what I do with my clays gun on many days. LOP is 14 1/8" a tad short but with bird hunting gear it's going to be a dandy. Shooting that round I kept forgetting it was a 16, sure handles nice for me. Anyone care to help with how to develop a "spreader" load in 16? I don't find spreader wads, only the Polywad thumbtack thingy.
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06-11-2021, 11:23 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Andy I have used that Polywad Thumbtack Thingy and patterned at least 3 different guns with them. I have actually been quite impressed with the results. All 3 were 12 gauge guns. They are a PITA to reload admittedly. Now I probably have 10 boxes or more loaded for clays and I don't even take them to the shoots. I need to use them up.
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I've got several vintage smallbore "bird guns" that are honest but not high end collector pieces and they've all been properly opened to IC or Light Mod and Imp-Mod. And if the new chokes are properly done (tapered to the muzzle for Parkers) they’ll pass for factory work except with the very closest scrutiny. One less thing to think about when out in the covers. I do use handloaded spreaders in tightly choked 12-gauge for in the face clays during COMPETITION SxS events but that's about it. JMO of course.
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