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yes - Brads number is 616-459-3636 - Paul
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12-09-2011, 12:43 PM
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Charlie,
Please look at my LC Smith Chain Damascus photo album at: http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=226 Make sure you look at the before photos. I've had Brad restore a dozen or more sets of Parker and LC Smith Damascus barrels and am please with every set. There isn't much that Brad Bachelder can't do to restore a gun. What he can't do I have not yet discovered. Mark |
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12-17-2011, 08:01 PM
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That is impressive indeed. Can't say I've seen a better restoration. It can't possibly have looked much if any better straight out of the box new. What a beauty. I like the micro welding idea. That can fix a lot of issues that just can't be fixed otherwise.
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mark that truly a great gun...brad has brought beauty back to that old ten...brad is truly a master craftsman.. i have several old guns that look like yours before you sent them to brad...i must say this lc smith sure must be a shooter with those chokes.... charlie
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12-18-2011, 12:35 PM
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Hi Charlie,
I am certain that there are other double-gunsmiths who are skilled but Brad is who get's my fun money! He always treats me well and on the few occasion that I had a concern, he happily redid the work to my satisfaction. Restoring a 110+ year old firearm is as much art as science. The Grade 2 LC Smith is choked a little too tight for the Nice Shot that I use. I shoot geese for the freezer on my pond with 10 gauge Parkers with barrel constrictions of .030" out to 60 yards. I have put down 5 (in early season) with my 1 3/8 oz load of Nice Shot #2 more than once! I used this Smith trying to put down a group of geese at 55 yards and ended up with one very dead goose. I think this gun would truely be a 70 yard gun if I could hit anything at that range!!! Mark |
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mark i also have a very tite choked lc smith 10 ga...it will out shoot any gun i have as far as putting shot in a can at 55 steps...i woulds say your gun would kill a goose at 70 yards and mite do it at 75 yards.. hope you get a chance someday to try it... i just got threw shooting a 10 ga buckshot load that i had lost last year in my shooting house..it laid on the shooting window ledge from last seaso till this one...was in the sun and moisture setting on that ledge it does not have glass in in it...was afraid it probably not go off but i put up paper target and tried it...used the old p grade parker 10...the shell firerd ok and i put all 000 8 of them in the circle...i was suprized and proud at the same time...woulda been a dead dear on paper... loaded up 5 more rounds of 000 buck boy did i look good on paper..even shot the old 8 ga pumpkin ball load once from 37 steps i look good on paper with it too...hoping to stretch my range a little bit with it hopefully out to 50 steps but got to shoot it a little more...but at 35 steps i should be ok if i ever get a shot with it...ive still got 6 weeks left of deer season just maybe... charlie
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Back to the original images posted by Bro. Day. Our friend sent me high resolution pics of the 1879 B and I now believe the barrels are also Toncin and not laminated steel. AND I found another gun owned by the same fella, a D Lifter, which might have the same pattern.
Please see http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23997270 It would be fascinating to know how/why these high grade barrels appeared on late 1870s C&B Lifters. Were they left over from the D.B. Wesson supply? Did Wesson's barrel guy go over to Meriden and make some Laminated steel and Twist barrels in-house in that same time frame?? See http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfg2hmx7_1742r4n6vcz
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Looks to be another one. This is the c. 1878 Grade 3 20g now on the Julia site. This is the best image, though difficult to confirm the pattern. It is also marked 'Laminated Steel'
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