What Won't You Buy??

mobirdhunter · 08-05-2021, 01:16 PM

Collecting is most certainly in the eye (or psyche) of the collector. There are some features that just have no appeal to me, no matter how "collectable" the gun might be. For example, I own no single trigger, beavertail or monte carlo stocked guns and don't even consider them when they come up for sale (thankfully, in my wife's opinion).

How about you? What features will cause you to walk away from an otherwise nice offering? Just curious.

Researcher · 08-05-2021, 01:53 PM

A Winchester Model 24.

mobirdhunter · 08-05-2021, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

A Winchester Model 24.

Agreed!!

J. A. EARLY · 08-07-2021, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

A Winchester Model 24.

Wish I had read this sooner. I feel depressed. Just shipped to my gunsmith the stock and forearm of a 12 gauge Model 24 on Friday. Someone put an elaborate checkering pattern on the forearm wood. They thinned the original stock, put a silver cap with a mountain scene on the pistol grip bottom, and added a Pachmayr White-Line pad. But they did not checker it. So it's off to add a period correct red Winchester pad and checker the stock to match the forearm wood.

I have two of them, the custom one and an unaltered one. On both of them the chokes are marked modified and full on the barrel flats. Both are actually improved cylinder and full. Great choke combination and I suspect all of them came that way. I've had great luck shooting them at doves. Not pretty but they apparently fit me well and at 7 1/2 pounds there is no recoil. I would buy a 20 gauge Model 24 in a minute.

Bill Murphy · 08-07-2021, 11:35 PM

Winchesters marked "modified" generally measure out to "improved cylinder". Your gun was probably not modified from its original configuration.

J. A. EARLY · 08-08-2021, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Winchesters marked "modified" generally measure out to "improved cylinder". Your gun was probably not modified from its original configuration.

Both made twenty years apart measure exactly the same, I.C. and Full. I am sure they have not been opened for no evidence of it.

Reggie B · 08-05-2021, 01:54 PM

I like small bore Parkers and Foxes. I like the ones with some nice, original condition, and the longer the barrels the better. And I like unique features like straight stocks, vent ribs, double ivory beads etc. So if its bigger than a 16 gauge I am not interested. If the barrel is shorter than 30" I am not as interested. And if it has been fully restored I am generally not interested. The most difficult thing that I have learned is I can't own them all, therefore I have really narrowed my interests. It is not easy but I am trying. And by being so "narrowly" focused I have learned that very few guns meet all my criteria which is a lot easier on the wallet! At least until one comes along that does work for me.

Garry my dream gun would be a 30" or 32" vent rib, straight stock, beavertail, double trigger 28 gauge or with a monte carlo stock! What a gun that would be!

mobirdhunter · 08-05-2021, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

Garry my dream gun would be a 30" or 32" vent rib, straight stock, beavertail, double trigger 28 gauge with a monte carlo stock! What a gun that would be!

Reggie, we could go to auctions together and root each other on. I'd promise to leave all the beavertail, vent rib (forgot to add that one earlier), and monte carlo stocked guns for you. Those other features of your dream gun...well, now that's a different story.

John Davis · 08-05-2021, 03:01 PM

Single trigger

Dean Romig · 08-05-2021, 03:26 PM

The BIG guns like 10's and 8's have no appeal for me and it's got to be a really special 12 for me to even consider.

I like a shotgun I can carry for a long time without the need of a gun-bearer or cart.
My preferences are of sixteen gauge and smaller and on the lighter frame sizes for the gauge.

I like the "one offs" and have a few of those but I'm pretty much unmoved by mediocrity or the very common ones... even though I have a number of those too.

Preferences in gun collecting change over time - I like to say mine have "matured" - and we become more, shall we say, sophisticated (?) in our collecting preferences.

At my age, IF I buy more guns they will be classic American side-by-sides with a very strong leaning to those made by Parker Bros. or a Parker made by Remington. (But that could change, depending on the gun.)

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