A Special Gun on a Special Day

[J. Scott Hanes]

I have used old paper shells often on Grouse hunts with usually great success. I am curious, if you care to enlighten me, what the "fit" issue was? Not igniting? Not fitting the chamber?

[Bill Murphy]

What grade?

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

What grade?

Murphy/Harold,

the water table is marked with a 1 over 12, Walt described it as Grade 7 engraving in his article with grade 4 checkering on the stock. This gun was obviously a custom order.
I looked over his Crass article that Wayne referenced, the article was not specifically about this gun, but he did include 3 pictures of this gun.

I did notice that in the article, the gold setter on the trigger guard is (upside down) or not situated as it is now. I'm scratching my head, it is definitely the same gun, but why the difference on the dog???

Stan

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Stan Hoover

Murphy/Harold,

the water table is marked with a 1 over 12, Walt described it as Grade 7 engraving in his article with grade 4 checkering on the stock. This gun was obviously a custom order.
I looked over his Crass article that Wayne referenced, the article was not specifically about this gun, but he did include 3 pictures of this gun.

I did notice that in the article, the gold setter on the trigger guard is (upside down) or not situated as it is now. I'm scratching my head, it is definitely the same gun, but why the difference on the dog???

Stan

Apparently somebody wasn’t fond of the original orientation of the gold setter…





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[Researcher]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Apparently somebody wasn’t fond of the original orientation of the gold setter…





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The bird on the trigger plate is also facing the other direction on the page 37 picture. A case of the printers having the Kodachrome or negative flipped.

[Stan Hoover]

Thanks for confirming what I suspected Dave, I just wasn’t sure how that could be flipped.

As I understand, Crass extractor frames have 5 pins, ejector guns have 6 pins

[WHO]

As I understand, Crass extractor frames have 5 pins, ejector guns have 6 pins





Yes Stan that is correct. Notice Drew's pictures. Those are ejector guns with 6 pins.