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04-16-2020, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon
Interesting post. I have two grade 2 16s that are consecutively numbered. I bought them a year apart at auction not knowing they were so numbered. Both are lightening cut O frames. Not in the greatest condition, but nice pieces of history.
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Sounds very interesting. Can you tell us more? I love my G 16 and it is a 0 frame with lightening cuts
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04-17-2020, 11:44 AM
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Sounds very interesting. Can you tell us more? I love my G 16 and it is a 0 frame with lightening cuts
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Mills, they are 1886-87 shipped guns (oddly enough, shipped about a year apart, but with consecutive serial numbers). I assume made in advance to have on hand and sent out when an order arose. I had Brad Batchelder restore one of them -- it was pretty rough. Neither is a very light gun, even with the 0 frame and lightening cuts. Both have 28 inch barrels and were originally choked pretty tightly, although the '87-shipped gun has had its right barrel choke opened at some point in time...and a straight stock (with Parker long tang and serial number stamping under it) added somewhere along the road. Certainly not collector status guns, but "venerable" none the less.
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