JABC's

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

Although these are a far cry from fine guns (Mr. Dunkle..feel free to delete this thread if you find it inappropriate) I was wondering if anyone here collects, or has had some JABC's at one time. I would like to start compiling the various names that were given to these guns. Also, if the condition was better than most, did you have any fears of shooting them given satisfactory barrel wall thickness? Photos, if you have them, would also be appreciated.
Thanks,
Austin

[Researcher]

My old friend the late Henry Thomas of Federal Oak Farm in Charles County, Maryland, gave me this RICHARD 28-gauge that had been his father's.

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I actually watched Henry shoot a round of skeet with this gun with factory AAs!! I never shot it.

A few years later he gave me his 1938 vintage 20-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth that he was given for his 21st birthday that year. Over the next 55 years following his English Setters around the Fox-Sterlingworth had been intimate with every thorny growth and barbed wire fence from upstate New York to Southern Maryland.

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I shot a few limits of Virginia Doves with it.

I passed both of these guns on to a younger Southern Maryland English Setter man who also knew Henry just before I left the National Capital region twenty years ago. A couple of years later he sent me a picture of Henry's Fox-Sterlingworth with one of his Setters and an Upstate New York Ruffed Grouse.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Austin, what is a JABC?? Synapses are not firing on this one.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Austin, what is a JABC?? Synapses are not firing on this one.

You’re not alone I’m a bit baffled .

[Mike of the Mountain]

"Just another bad copy"?

[Researcher]

Just Another Belgian Clunker

[todd allen]

I had a chance to buy a Wells Fargo JABC at a gun show once. Barrels were about 20", and it had a copper plaque tacked on the side of the buttstock that said Wells Fargo, so it musta been real, right?

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

I thought everyone knew about JABC's. They used to be found in barrels at almost every country gunshop and gun show for $50.00 to $100.00 apiece. They were my introduction to double guns when I was a kid as I would be allowed to use my grandfathers while hunting with him and my dad. Grandpa passed on while I was in the military and his brother was given his guns. Where they went from there I could never find out.

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Austin J Hawthorne Jr.

I thought everyone knew about JABC's. They used to be found in barrels at almost every country gunshop and gun show for $50.00 to $100.00 apiece. They were my introduction to double guns when I was a kid as I would be allowed to use my grandfathers while hunting with him and my dad. Grandpa passed on while I was in the military and his brother was given his guns. Where they went from there I could never find out.

You often find them above the fire places at many Cracker Barrels down south. General worth imo is less then $100.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by tom tutwiler

You often find them above the fire places at many Cracker Barrels down south. General worth imo is less then $100.

Sounds like the perfect "project gun"!!