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01-12-2014, 10:06 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Harold
they have been discussed here at least a couple times http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...light=american http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...light=american
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they seem to be good guns i have a 12 ga with steel barrels and it has killed a few turkeys for me..i lentghed the chambers to 3 1/2 inch it really shoots well but is a shoulder bruiser with the 3 1/2 inch loads of 2 1/4 ounce..weighs in at 7 3/4 lbs...in my opinion they are made of good stuff a 20 ga would be a fine gun to add to anybody s collection...charlie
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Charlie: almost all American Gun Co. marked Crescent shotguns were manufactured prior to the introduction in 1922 of the Western Cartridge Co. 12 gauge Super-X Field 2 3/4 inch 1 1/4 ounce 3 3/4 dram equiv. shell. The gun was designed for 1 1/4 oz. 3 dram loads. It is quite likely that the wall thickness at the end of your chambers is now inadequate, and a catastrophic rupture is possible, if not likely.
Brother, do what you want, but please do not have a child nearby when you fire one of your turkey loads.
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drew i have measured the barrel thickness and it is well above the standards for a 3 1/2 inch gun...do nt worry there are never children or adults at my side when fireing heavy or lite loads..the old american 12 ga i have as fired a lot of heavy loads at the dr pepper can..charlie
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lot of sinamental vaue in that gun for sure...i seen a coupla 28 ga guns like your 20 ga but they were outa my price range but woula like to have had them...i have a 410 double with hammers it is a childs gun it is so small and its a american arms gun...in my opinion a poor mans s lc smith...charlie
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I spent my 8th grade year living in Bucklin, KS. My grandfather, my dad's dad, loved to hunt. We'd sit on the fender of his old Buick and my grandmother would drive down the country roads and we'd shoot dove off of the wires, or flying. We'd also get pheasants when they flushed from the brush alongside the road. Jack rabbits were thick. I'd shoot them with an ancient 22 bolt gun of some kind. We didn't eat the jacks, but we did the cotton tails. The meadowlarks sang a constant song. The last time I was out there, in 2010, I didn't see a'one.
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