What makes a skeet gun a skeet gun?

[PML]

[QUOTE=Pete Lester;44435]But to be a true factory "Skeet' gun don't they need to have the skeet in/out stampings, option 14, and the more open choke on the left???


There are factory skeet guns that are marked option 5 in the serial # book even though they have a factory skeet beavertail. I don't think option 14 is a must on a skeet gun.

Patrick

[C.O.B.]

A skeet gun should have open chokes but they could be oredered any way the customer wanted. I have a VHE 20 skeet with a 13.5 LOP a slip on pad takes care of LOP.

I think the better term would be skeet configured. Checkered butt, SST, BTF, ejectors. Most skeet guns had 26 inch barrels but I have seen them with 28. I once had a GHE 20 w/28 inch tubes, I miss that one.

[Bill Murphy]

I have seen more than one 28" skeet gun. I have never seen one that I thought did not originate in Del Grego's shop.

[C.O.B.]

The one I had didn't have the telltale DelGrego case color and there was about 40% color on he gun. It was a Remington era production but as I sold it a year ago I didn't keep the serial number.