Cabin Fever

[Eldon Goddard]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Unfortunately, alot of the people at Cabelas Gun Rooms are not all that informed on older and collectible guns. They just need people to man the store. I was recently discussing a French 16 sxs at the Gun Room in Wheeling and mentioned it was short chambered at 2 1/2" and showed him the barrel flats marked 65mm. He said I was wrong and that 65 is the bore diam. of a 16 ga. They were asking $1200 for the gun and I showed him that the gun rarely goes for over 500 on several internet sites. It appears to be a French guild gun, and no manufacturers name can be found. Needless to say, it is still there.

Wow a 2 1/2'' bore diameter! Must have been a cannon. This is why we need to teach the metric system early.