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I have a 20 gauge DHE that letters with the medium full stock, and as Dean suggests, the comb is thicker (and more rounded). It’s quite comfortable to shoot.
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12-29-2021, 09:44 AM
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Thank you, gentlemen. Makes sense. It’s a interesting gun. Right barrel was ordered Improved Cyl, left “slightly choked.” Also a 4# trigger pull. It was ordered through a hardware store in GA do I’m guessing it was ordered by s quail hunter.
This is only 20 g damascus gun with ejectors that I have seen. It was ordered/delivered in 1907 and sent back in 08 for a second set of barrels (fluid steel). JDG |
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12-29-2021, 09:50 AM
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Jay, does the gun letter with the ejectors in the original order or was it done at a later date, for instance when it was sent back for the additional barrels?
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It would be the comb that is referred to.
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It was ordered with 28” damascus barrels with ejectors. |
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12-29-2021, 01:12 PM
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Jay, what hardware store? I have a DHE 16 from Anderson Hardware that was certainly a quail gun--6lbs and 26" cyl/M
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The gun was ordered through Dunlop Hardware and shipped to Harry Kendall in Macon, GA. I assume Dunlop Hardware was in/near Macon.
Interesting that the chokes are reversed in that the right barrel has the tighter choke. I had an old 12 DH that had the right barrel tighter than the left. The gun was most certainly used for waterfowl on Long Island sound and I was told the tight (right) barrel was shot as ducks were incoming over decoys and were farther out than when they flared after the first shot. Jay |
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If it was intended as a quail gun I am surprised that the chokes would be "reversed" like that. I often use the tighter choked barrel on an incoming flock of doves, using the tighter choke farther out, then the more open on the second shot as the doves approach closer. But, I never considered having a gun with "reversed chokes". I simply go to the rear trigger first, then the front next. My dedicated quail gun is a 20 ga. Fox, choked .006" right and .016" left. I can see no reason to reverse the chokes in the two barrels, but who knows what one may have wanted?
It was actually Dunlap Hardware in Macon, GA (maybe a typo). It was owned by Samuel Dunlap who died rather unexpectantly in 1928, from angina pectoris according to the obituary. |
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