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08-31-2018, 04:25 PM | #44 | ||||||
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We will never flush out all of the spuriously marked skeet guns, but we can start by identifying high condition guns with fresh colors, 28" barrels, checkered stock cheeks, and other signs of work by the shop that built the fakes. No big deal. They're still nice guns if you don't pay too much.
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08-31-2018, 05:20 PM | #45 | ||||||
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Unfortunately the factory records are not available to the collecting public on the vast majority of those “fakes”. Consequently, unless a potential buyer knows exactly what to look for, a lot of folks could be burned.
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09-01-2018, 10:54 AM | #46 | ||||||
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A Del Grego skeet conversion is a great gun and a good buy if you don't pay too much.
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09-01-2018, 01:06 PM | #47 | ||||||
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I agree Bill and I emphasize your caveat.
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09-01-2018, 10:53 PM | #48 | ||||||
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My VH was made into a skeet gun, probably in the ‘40’s. It has a replacement stock with modern dimensions and a beaver tail. I hate the look of the beaver tail forend but after shooting the gun, it is oh so sweet. It has 30 in barrels chokes Cyl/IC. It crushes them on skeet. I may make it my main skeet gun.
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09-02-2018, 09:38 AM | #49 | ||||||
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Todd, in an earlier post you mentioned that there is a theory that "Skeet"rules led to the demise of the 16ga. I believe that the 3" 20ga was probably more responsible. When that happened, you could get a lighter gun with the same payload by going to the 20ga.
The Skeet rules allow using a smaller gauge in larger guage competition, i.e., 16 or 20 gauge in 12 (ALL) gauge competition. During my active years in Skeet, many shooters used the 20ga. in 12ga. competition. |
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09-02-2018, 03:02 PM | #50 | ||||||
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I have a wonderful cut 26" DHE, single trigger, beavertail, 207,000 series 12 gauge. The bores were enlarged to about .745 so some choke could be put back. Herschel advertised the gun as an original skeet gun. My friend was the station chief for we can guess who in Kabul at the time. He received the gun by diplomatic mail and immediately contacted HC to bring to his attention that it was nobody's skeet gun. I bought the gun years later along with a ream of letters back and forth, HC refusing to take the gun back. I also have the original ad and correspondence. He did offer to let my friend pick another gun, from Kabul. I promised myself I wouldn't tell this story until Herschel was dead. He's dead and I'm telling the story.
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