GHE 28GA Skeet

[Researcher]

Cody called my Model 21 Skeet Gun "skeet grade" in the letter on it. No Winchester Catalog ever called them "skeet grade." They were the Model 21 Skeet Gun. In the early years the Model 21 Skeet Gun could be had in Tournament Grade, Trap Grade or Custom Built Grade. A few years in the Tournament Grade was dropped and for a few more years the Model 21 Skeet Gun could be had in Standard Grade, Trap Grade and Custom Built Grade. By the late 1930s the Trap Grade was dropped and from then on the Model 21 Skeet Gun was made in Standard Grade or Custom Built Grade (except for those few years it was Deluxe Grade).

[Bruce Hering]

My God..... Look at the current bid.... Crazy, or...

[Researcher]

The barrels have a date code of BE (B = January, E = 1936) then there is a repair code of KF3 (K = May, F = 1937). Seems like every Skeet Gun barrel flat I see has repair codes.

[Bill Murphy]

Dean's gun seems to have been "reconditioned" according to an earlier post. In Remington files, there seem to be many late guns that were "reconditioned" or "completed" before being sent out to dealers.

[Dean Romig]

Skeet being the hot new game, I’m sure most of them saw a LOT of use.

Yes, mine went back to Remington to be refurbished and not used a whole lot, apparently, since then.





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[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

My God..... Look at the current bid.... Crazy, or...

I’m not at all surprised and with 10 days to go I think it will go a lot higher.





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[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I think the jury's still on that regard John. The wood is appropriate for a Remington era Grade 2 but maybe a bit over the top in figure. Generally speaking the super nice figure on the lower grades didn't start appearing regularly until after the move to Ilion. To my mind the borders don't have that perfect concave mullering we might expect to see on a 1935 Meriden produced Parker but there was more than one person doing the checkering and each had his or her own style.





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I would still be concerned that the Parker Identification book still list the stock as straight or what I call an English style stock.

[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

My God..... Look at the current bid.... Crazy, or...

If the gun is right(Haven't heard any comments on if the case and barrel bluing is original) then wouldn't it sell for way more that the $16000 its currently at?

[Jim DiSpagno]

Not unusual for the stock configuration to be in error in the book. I’ve had it happen twice so far

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by John Bastiani

If the gun is right(Haven't heard any comments on if the case and barrel bluing is original) then wouldn't it sell for way more that the $16000 its currently at?

There's still 0 days to go until the auction ends...





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