Let's see some wood!

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Wouldn't you just love to find a Repro with wood like this? Make mine a 28ga. SG, SPL, DT with a 14 3/4" LOP -- a 2-bbl. set would make it even more perfect!

Greg - I hope I find it before you do! But I prefer 14 1/4 so I'll need to cut the butt a bit.





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[Tom Flanigan]

My only repro had outstanding wood which is typical. If there is one area where the repro’s are better than the originals, this is it. Because of wood, I decided to refinish it with oil and re-do the checkering. I also redid the barrels using the slow rust blue process. It certainly didn’t need it but I felt batter about the gun with the old style finish. I don’t know how they did it in Japan but it certainly looks good. I’m just finicky about some things.

The gun certainly looked nice and I was going to include it in my grouse gun arsenal. But I hunted about a year with it and decided to sell the gun. That particular gun was too heavy to for a 20 bore, in my opinion and didn’t feel lively in my hands. I understand the 28 bores are jewels for handling and shooting.