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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
All posters are confusing the "Steel Shot Special" with the "Sporting Clays" model of Repro. The Sporting Clays model has 2 3/4" chambers and screw in chokes. The "Steel Shot Special" has 3" chambers and IC and MOD chokes in 28" barrels. The difference between a regular Repro with 28" barrels and a Steel Shot Special with 28" barrels is that the SSS has chokes that are compatible with steel shot in 3" shells. The regular Repro with 28" barrels has 2 3/4" chambers and modified and full chokes. I don't doubt that Joe owned a gun that was not serial numbered as a Steel Shot Special that had SSS features. OK, so he did. No one got too excited about 12 gauge Repros as a concept. In 1986, original short barrel D Grade Parkers were not a hot item, and they still aren't today. Why do we think they only sold a few 12 gauge Repros? How hot are 26" 12 gauge Repros today?
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Bill, you misunderstood. Years ago I owned a Steel Shot Special (so marked and purchased from Dunn's) and later sold it. This Spring I bought a 28" bbl, 3" chambered Repro with IC/Mod chokes, but it is not marked SS in the serial number. And by the way, it weighs only 4 oz. less than the SSS weighed, and it has a straight stock/splinter forend while my Steel Shot Special had a pistol grip/beavertail forend, so it's not much, if any lighter.
Joe
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