Heavy 12 gauges

[Bill Murphy]

The owner of the unique #6 frame 12 gauge that Jack Puglisi sold has not come forward on this site. We would like to hear from him. My fluid steel #6 frame ten gauge is well known by readers on this site and the Puglisi 12 gauge should be "outed" also.

[MarketHunter]

My main duck gun is a fluid steel DHE 12 gauge on a #3 frame with 34 inch barrels, I think it weighs about 9 1/2 pounds. A friend just picked up a similar gun that has factory long chambers and weighs a pound more than mine.

Destry

[Bill Murphy]

Destry, I can't wait to see that one.

[MarketHunter]

Mine or my friends?

Mine has been in several pictures I've posted on the forum over time.

My friends was on Julia's auction a couple of years ago, I'm sure you saw it there.


Destry

[Don Kaas]

Destry is referring to the 34" #3 frame DHE that I bought from a PGCA stalwart last week. It is a straight grip with skeleton bp gun with factory 2 7/8" chambers. The barrels are marked 6/2 and it letters at 10lb 11oz. It also was ordered and sent to OK in 1913 with no dogs or birds engraved on the gun. It originally had a 15 1/4" LoP before the Miller and patterned at 75% with #5 shot before the Brileys. A tall, fundamentalist Christian or Orthodox Jewish duck hunter's gun with "no graven images"

[MarketHunter]

I've never "printed" mine on paper but it prints on ducks pretty good.


DLH

[J.B. Books]

I put my Delgrego 3 frame VH to good use this morning on a flock of lesser Canada's.

[MarketHunter]

It's funny, I've killed I dunno how many geese in my life, but it's in the high hundreds. And I've never killed anything except just your old standard size canada goose and a few of the giant strain. The smaller races seem to elude me for some reason. I'm impressed to say the least, and envious of course.


Destry

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

It's funny, I've killed I dunno how many geese in my life, but it's in the high hundreds. And I've never killed anything except just your old standard size canada goose and a few of the giant strain. The smaller races seem to elude me for some reason. I'm impressed to say the least, and envious of course.


Destry

Destry, don't be envious, smaller geese make for range estimation errors. We do not see Lesser's around here very often either. In fact we had no idea there were Lesser's until they were down. Since we are used to standards and giants we misjudged the range. What we thought was a 40 yard overhead pass was more like 25 or 30. Mine were hit really hard, one of them too hard :-( Good patterns though :-)

[MarketHunter]

I've even been in the field when lessers were killed, but my geese all ended up being standards.

Opening day I killed the largest goose I'd killed in years, I didn't weigh it but it was over 12 pounds I guarantee. Looked like a swan compared to the others we had, really a huge bird.

Nobody believes it, but Dad and I doubled up on one years ago that weighed 19 3/4 on a certified scale at the county deer check station. It's feet were nearly a big as my hands, neck big around as my forearm. I've never seen one even close to that big before or since. I should have had it mounted as it was so tough you could barely cut it when we tried to eat it.


DLH