Let's see some wood!

[Harry Sanders]

Thank I stand corrected

[Tony Guccioni]

My SCC …..

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[SXS OHIO]

I have two sets of the Merkel barrels that Galazan had made. They cost about 2k and fitting was offered. I ordered a set and had them fitted and my SN added 200.00 The positives are the barrels are hi quality, well struck, balanced and have .031 of choke in the left barrel or X-Full The right barrel start at .018 and I had mine opened to .009 I use this gun in Kansas for wild roosters and quail. It shoots hard and is perfectly regulated. I am very happy with the barrels for hunting use. The negatives are.....barrel matting does not match, but is quality work. They do not have the wedding band engraved at the breach, I really miss that! And the worst part is the dolls head extension. Its undersize and lacks the factory engraving. These are all cosmetic issues that the barrels make up for in hard hit roosters...(-: I bought my second set right her on our for sale thread, got them and they snapped right onto my two barrel set...sweet I did not change the factory chokes of .018/.031 The have a original set of Kreghoff barrels, they only have .026 of choke in the full barrel. So if you want more choke the Merkel barrels are the choice! If I had one wish....it would have been for 30" tight choked PR 16ga barrels!!!! We are lucky to have them at all! , THANK YOU TOM SKUES SXS Ohio

[Bruce Day]

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[MD*GSP]

..nicest 12ga I'm aware of Gary. What a great shotgun!!

[Gary Laudermilch]

What makes it especially nice to me is the choking. 26" are Q1&2 and the 28" IC & Mod. It also has a bt forend which I like for clays work. I has a single trigger where I would prefer double but, hey, you cannot have everything and I have to say the single trigger works flawlessly.

[Setter Man]

Sold this Repro a few years ago to fiance the purchase of my VHE 20/32. Through a couple of gentlemen who are part of this forum I had the opportunity to buy it back. Case coloring and wood refinish by Brad Bachelder.

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[Jim McKee]

Parker Reproduction both are 28b
The 28b is listed for sale here also
Jim

[Tom Flanigan]

I just re-read the posts and saw that the gun was restocked. In that case, if I was going to hunt with it, I would bore a hole through the grip lengthwise from the head of the stock and install a long bolt surrounded by acraglas. Absolutely beautiful wood.

I had to do this with a beautiful civil war muzzleloader that was presented to a general by the state of Maine. Unfortunately, when I bought the gun it was badly cracked through the wrist in multiple places. I fixed it with the long bolt method and re-checkered over the cracks. It was a beautiful piece of wood but the burl ran right through the grip. You'd have to look very closely and know where the cracks were to see them now.

[B. Dudley]

Not wood that is one a gun, but someday will be.

Last week I had the opportunity to buy 42 high quality stock blanks from the estate of a since passed gunsmith that was a friend of a friend of my family. He passed 5 years ago and was a life long practicing general gunsmith. Primarily working on and building custom rifles.

In the lot was Circassian (english, turkish, french), Bastogne, Claro and American. All of it is very old. He had everything dated, not sure if they were cut dates or purchase dates, but the oldest date is 1959 and the newest is 1973!

Now I just need to find room to store it all. On top of the nearly 150 blanks that I already had on hand.

As an aside... there was about 20 blanks of very nice Myrtle that I left behind since I do not work with it, so if anyone may know an interested party... let me know.

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