First pheasants with The Big Gun

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Matt Buckley

Wow, 37” barrels. I see it is listed in the Parker book as 37” barrels.

Matt,
It is listed in the book as 37”. It was advertised as lettering with 37 1/2” barrels, I do not have the letter yet but there was a copy of the letter with the sale add showing as such.
Randy,
This gun was was mentioned as having 37 3/8” barrels earlier. They measure just a smidge over, so it is felt the barrels are original length even though they are slightly shy of 37 1/2”.
So pardon me for embellishing on the barrel length, I thought since it letters as 37 1/2”, that is what I would call it.
Charlie,
I didn’t take much time looking through that sale, had I seen those 3 1”4 shells, I would probably be just a little more poor now

[Stan Hoover]

Randy,

Maybe the fellow cutting the barrels to length was having a bit of Knob Creek since it was Friday, and he cut on the wrong side of the line

Hope you had a great day on the sporting clays course

Stan

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Stan Hoover

Matt,

Randy,
This gun was was mentioned as having 37 3/8” barrels earlier. They measure just a smidge over, so it is felt the barrels are original length even though they are slightly shy of 37 1/2”.
So pardon me for embellishing on the barrel length, I thought since it letters as 37 1/2”, that is what I would call it.

Stan I guess that is where my memory left me as I thought the letter actually stated 37 3/8" vs 37 1/2". Not questioning the originality in any way, I was just thinking it was neat for the letter to be that specific. Of course one could argue that either the 3/8" or 1/2" is rather specific.