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LC Smith Special Order 12ga 30"
Unread 04-26-2022, 04:48 PM   #1
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Default LC Smith Special Order 12ga 30"

I bought a new gun at the Southern. It's a very interesting LC Smith Special Order from 1919. It has engraving like the early A-1's. The stock is highly figured with a crushed silver recoil pad leather faced. The checkering is fine and the pistol grip has a fancy shape. The gun is 2 3/4" chamber but beefy at 8lbs 14oz with 30" IM/F chokes. The min. walls are .049/.049. It is built like a Super Fox or Parker 3 frame 12 except it has standard bores of .727. I did sell a LC Smith Grade 3 10ga 30" damascus so I came home from the Southern with the same number of guns I left with LOL. Fulton NY is only about 30 miles from my duck club, I have always had a soft spot for Smith guns.
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And you shot it well my friend. I just love the grip "curl". Maybe you can shoot for Team LC next year.
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Is there a name or term for that grip style? It is seen on a lot of early Marlin rifles & shotguns and Ballard single shot rifles.

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Dave wasn't a early Fox DE stocked with the same pistil grip design?
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The C.A. Godshalk Fox shotgun the looks like a Gough-style DE-Grade but is marked X has a grip that terminates in a subtle interpretation of this style --

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That's a good-looking LC Smith. You did good.
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Very nice! I would be interested to see the letter on that one.
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Some early Baker grip caps has a shape like that. And also some Ithaca guns in the Lewis era used that style of pistol grip.
But yes, Marlin/ballard would be the most common users of it.
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According to Steve Cambria the proper name for the style is ogee flourish
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Sounds like a New England name to me.
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