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01-03-2021, 07:37 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Here is a similar tiny K on the lug of the massive 6-frame 12-guge Quality VH the Puglisi had some years ago --
6 frame 12-ga 3.jpg I have also seen that tiny K stamped in the space between the lug and the cocking hook, but can't lay my cursor on a picture right now. I have recorded a very tiny J.S on the lug of many hammer guns and some early hammerless ones -- 42647 14.jpg |
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01-03-2021, 07:40 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Keith, of all the 16’s I’ve handled or even seen about half have been on the 0-frame. Of all the 16’s I have owned only 1 is other than a o-frame.
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01-03-2021, 07:42 PM | #5 | ||||||
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They are not rare by any means.
I have personally seen more 0 frame 16s than I have 1 frame 16s. By a lot.
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01-03-2021, 07:47 PM | #6 | ||||||
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That's odd. Searching hard, no price limitations, I find one #0 frame for every 100 #1 frames for sale (estimation and maybe exaggeration but it's clear I can't find them). Maybe the folks who have them never sell them?? I probably wouldn't.
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01-03-2021, 08:13 PM | #7 | ||||||
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But we must remember the standard frame size for the sixteen gauge was always the 1-frame.
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01-03-2021, 08:28 PM | #8 | ||||||
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I have 2. They each weigh in at just 6#. One has 28" barrels the other 26". Don't plan on parting with them any time soon. And that is why you don't find as many for sale that often.
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01-03-2021, 08:34 PM | #9 | ||||||
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In the later years, anything over 200000, I seem to see far more 1-frame 16-gauges.
In continuing to look through the pictures I've saved I see tiny O, B, D, V in addition to the K and J.S on the lug and in the space forward of the lug. And, just to be different, my Father's old 12-gauge Quality VH has a tiny 6 next to the much larger 2 frame size stamp on the lug?!? |
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01-03-2021, 10:20 PM | #10 | ||||||
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I have 2 16s that serial number over 200000, one a VH SST, one a GHE SST, both are on #1 frames, 28", both about 6#6oz. This gun weighs 5#14oz, barrels stamped 2#15oz.
I wonder what the tiny letters indicate. |
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