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10-25-2021, 09:52 AM | #64 | |||||||
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If it was made before WW-II, we have the old factory ledger which would give the month the receiver with that serial number was put in work, and there should also be a date code on the barrel. |
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10-25-2021, 12:30 PM | #65 | ||||||
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My late FIL shot a 12ga Model 11; he bought it from the estate of an uncle who was a very small man and he'd had the stock cut down to fit him. Jess never bothered to change it, but man, could he shoot it! I know what they say about the importance of gun fit, but...
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10-25-2021, 01:37 PM | #66 | ||||||
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My Father bought a 12-gauge 30-inch full The Sportsman for $35 in 1938 with his employee discount at Seattle Hardware. He always lamented the Parker in their window display which he said he could have bought for $100!! The Sportsman was his waterfowl gun until the early 1960s when he succumbed to Jack O'Connor's short barrel writings and had it whacked to 26-inch with a Poly-Choke. Within a year or two The Sportsman was gone and he had a 2-frame 30-inch VH 12-gauge as his waterfowl gun, which still resides in my gunroom.
In 2002 after I retired and was cleaning out our house in Seattle getting it ready to sell, I found the leather takedown case he made for The Sportsman, so I had to buy one to go in it!! Of course once I had the 12-gauge, I needed a 16- and 20-gauge. Six Hundred Dollor Collection 02.jpg |
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10-25-2021, 02:54 PM | #67 | ||||||
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good storey and some really nice model 11 s....charlie
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10-25-2021, 05:08 PM | #68 | ||||||
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They are all The Sportsman --
Six Hundred Dollor Collection 01.jpg While 99% of the time I hunt with a double, on 27 October 2006 I took my 16-gauge, 26-inch, solid rib, improved cylinder, The Sportsman out and was presented with the perfect opportunity for a triple. 27 Oct 06 01.jpg Full disclosure, earlier that day I poked holes in the air three times around a single rooster!! My 20-gauge is a 28-inch plain barrel modified. I got a 26-inch vent ribbed SKEET barrel for it from Destry. I consider it my Bob Stack memorial gun. |
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10-25-2021, 05:12 PM | #69 | ||||||
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Dave,
Is that the late, great Skitso? Looking pretty protective over those birds.
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10-25-2021, 06:13 PM | #70 | ||||||
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Yes, that is her. Here she is watching me fish in Alaska in 2013 --
DSCN0362.jpg Unfortunately, she felt obligated to get in the water and help land fish!! |
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