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It's interesting that those RIAC guns would show up all at once. Someone has been monitoring our chatter and you long barrel aficionados have cause a glut in the market.
 As of now, I plan to go to the preview day at Rock Island. I'll start lifting weights again so I can handle those behemoths. They are very interesting guns, from an interesting time period. I hope someone here gets one.
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Charlie I love the big guns but even to me on a 8 or 4 bore double anything over 36" starts to look disproportionate like on my 6 frame from some angles my 32" barrels look stubby. I think on the big guns somewhere in the range of 34"-38" is where they look good any thing less or more looks odd to me. Then again this can be entirely dependent on the scale of the action/frame size also. Like recently Ive come to the conclusion a 4 bore double should always be a hammergun as the actions arent as chunky around the stock head.
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03-26-2022, 02:50 PM
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How about the 12g with 40” barrels??? Talk about a rare one!
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03-26-2022, 03:16 PM
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I'm most likely wrong but I think their estimations on worth for all three 40" guns are a good bit high . In the past I'd thought they made the estimations low but not on those three .
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03-26-2022, 03:17 PM
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I must have missed the 40" 12 gauge. Milton, I think my 30" DH 8 gauge is in perfect proportion. At 10 pounds, I can still lift it.
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03-26-2022, 03:23 PM
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The 8ga is very nice. Built in 1919 a year after the 8 was outlawed for waterfowl hunting which begs the question what was it intended for? 15 lbs 10oz king sized hippo for sure. That's 2 to 3 pounds heavier than most 36 inch 8's. A round of sporting clays would be a high intensity work out.
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