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Old 11-04-2011, 02:23 PM   #1
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Longest I've seen on a single shot is that one you and I swapped back and forth Charlie. I've got my 36 inch Super Goose Gun that I'm pretty pleased with, that's the longest in my gun closet.

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Many years ago, a Virginia dealer displayed a GH grade 16 with 40" Vulcan Steel barrels. I would guess that the 40" barrels were a factory rebarrel. This dealer, at the time, was selling the Bill Mitchell collection, so the 40" 16 may have been a Mitchell gun. General Mitchell was known to own some weird special order Parkers. Has anyone run into this gun over the years?
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EDM knew where that long 16 gauge was. He'd had a chance to photograph it for his first book but passed for some reason. It's in a collection but that's all I can remember.

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I'll ask about it first chance I get. Pass on a picture of a 40" 16 gauge?
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Hopefully you won't get a chance to ask EDM for quite awhile yet Bill.

I think he just figured the way he took gun pictures, a 40 inch one wouldn't look like much. He was big into the still life type stuff, long barrels just don't show up in those.


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