Cool new Shotgun

[RichardDarkwood]

I just picked up the Nova for my wife, her first firearm. (They didn't have the super nova tactical in stock). Beautiful shotgun, hopefully will be at the range this weekend.

Her shooting skills just jumped up 65% from you buying that Benelli.

[Flench]

I have a Belgium Browning A5 (FN MFG) that i love......Definately great guns........actually, i think anyone that loves shotguns should consider it manditory to own one   

I have quite a few,and have always loved shotguns, and high end rifles.(I have a Parker SXS thats one of my favs, along with a Kreighoff and Beretta O/U) 10+ as a guess, (I didnt work at the gunshop that i mentioned earlier for the money, it was more to "support my habit" ) It was fun seeing the wife shake her head back and forth everytime an unrecognised guncase came home with me from work.

If i think of it, ill snap a couple of pics of the Drilling that my uncle "liberated" in France in WWII.

<EDIT> German Drilling  16ga (European) on top and 9.3X72r Rifle

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I still think that 30yrold Mossberg 500 that dad gave me on my 12th or 13th Bday is my favorite though.

Cool shotgun the Drilling . what gauge is it ? 12 ?

[mbailey]

Cool shotgun the Drilling . what gauge is it ? 12 ?

16ga, but its European, the chambers are 2 1/2" instead of the standard (US) 2 3/4 or 3". Its a neat gun, that little piece you see under the trigger guard  is the break open,it swings down (to load), and the tang on the top (on most Dbl BBLs its what opens them) is connected to a rifle sight that flips up about 8" down the BBL, and engages the firing pin for the rifle bbl.  . Really some cool engineering for a gun built around 1900.

  Image shows the tang that flips up the sight, you can see it (the sight) about 8" down the bbl lying flat.


This image shows the trigger guard mech that breaks it open to load

[Flench]

That's 2 cool ...

[PFactorDave]

16ga, but its European, the chambers are 2 1/2" instead of the standard (US) 2 3/4 or 3". Its a neat gun, that little piece you see under the trigger guard  is the break open,it swings down (to load), and the tang on the top (on most Dbl BBLs its what opens them) is connected to a rifle sight that flips up about 8" down the BBL, and engages the firing pin for the rifle bbl.  . Really some cool engineering for a gun built around 1900.

  Image shows the tang that flips up the sight, you can see it (the sight) about 8" down the bbl lying flat.
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This image shows the trigger guard mech that breaks it open to load
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That's very cool MBailey.

This is one of my favorites in my collection.  It is a 12ga that we found in my Grandfather's basement after he passed away.  A little research has caused us to believe that it was probably my Grandfather's father's shotgun, dating from sometime between 1880 and 1895.

I had it inspected by a qualified gunsmith (he made new firing pins for it, one was broken) and bought some low pressure shells for it.  I shoot it occaisionally.  It's a pleasure to shoot!







I also have an Ithaca Hammerless SxS 12ga, that by the serial number dates to 1906.  But I picked it up at a pawn shop for $100 and it doesn't have the family history that the one above has.

[Flench]

Nice , here's mine .Great great Grandfather's .wonder when black tape was invented , i did not put it on there ..first time out of the case in 20 year's .

[PFactorDave]

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Funny you should mention that!  When we were going through my Grandfather's basement, we found quite a few old shotguns and rifles.  There were five or six that had cracked stocks wrapped with black tape, just like yours.  Apparently, the black tape repair was standard operating procedure!

This youth rifle, which we dated to the 1920s and believe was my Grandfathers gun when he was a boy was cracked and wrapped with black tape.  I spent a Saturday afternoon repairing it.  My 8 year old daughter likes to shoot it now.

[Flench]

That's wild .
 I guess I need to fix mine up too .  ..Nice job on the rifle .

[PFactorDave]

Here is a link to the company that I buy the low pressure shotgun shells from.  Good people, and I really like their shells.

http://www.polywad.com/vintager.html

Found a picture of my daughter shooting my Grandfather's youth 22 after I repaired the stock.

[Flench]

 

[Reaper90]

Neat, guys, those old double barrells look a lot like my old one I mentioned that was my Grandfather's.... I asked my dad about it, if he had any idea of the age of it, but he had none. My grandfather died very unexpectedly when my dad was 9 and the gun just sat in my grandmother's attic, then our attic, for about 50 years and didn't see daylight more than 2 or 3 times that whole time, until I wound up with it. I'd never been able to find anyone who could tell me much about it, only one gunsmith looked at it a few years ago and cleaned it up a bit, but he couldn't find a serial number of any sort on it, only "LC Smith" on the right side of the lock, and "Hunter Arms Co., Fullton, New York" on the top of the barrell on the rib. His best guess was that the lack of a serial number may have most likely been due to it being a very early or pre-production model of that gun, before they started producung them full-scale.

Kinda glad this thread came up, because it prompted me to do a bit of research it and found an LC Smith website with a ton of information, and found my Grandfather's gun on page 16 of the LC Smith 1910 catalog! Apparently, this specific type was made between the 1890's through 1919, when Damascus steel was no longer used.

http://www.lcsmith.org/images/CoverCatalog1910.pdf

I <3 the internet!

My "Old GrandDad gun"

32" barrells.... looooong (Abby isn't impressed)


The lock and neat finish






The previously mentioned Mossberg 500 "Home Defense"




Browning Auto 5 Light 12 and 30.06 BAR Stalker

[mbailey]

Nice guns guys, what ever you do, dont clean them up to much, Patina is everything when it comes to value. Love the hammer guns, and the LC Smith. That plinker u posted Dave was really cool!

I have a couple more SXS that ill post pics of in a bit, one is a Parker that was my wifes grandfathers. It was given to me by him.
 
When i met my wife, and was invited over to her grandparents for the first time, I was sitting in the living room having a drink, and talking with her grandfather. I saw the shotgun behind the tv earlier that day, and got up the nerve to ask to see it. Her grandfather looked at me and said "that old thing?" "Its sat there for 50years, never got around to putting it away when we moved here" "It was Jodi's (my wife) grandmothers fathers." "go ahead son".I proceeded to go and pick it up and blow the 50yrs of dust off it to take a look at it. Imagine my suprise when i looked at the MFG and found the mark on it that stated PARKER on the side. Come to find out it was a Parker DHE 12ga. I almost fainted and explained to him exactly what he had. The next day i stopped over the house, cleaned it up and gave him a lockable hard case for him to put it in, and stash it under his bed. He let me take it to a high end sxs dealer i know in the area to get it appraised. The dealer valued it somewhere right around $7500.00. Needless to say he kept it in the case from then on, and everytime we were over the house, id check it to make sure it was staying in good order.

He gave it to me as a wedding present the day i married my wife  <Looks around for wife........ok coast is clear> Quite honestly I cant choose what made me happier that day    

[Flench]

All I can find (number's) I can find on mine is some writing .
Laminated figure belgium .

[PFactorDave]

All I can find (number's) I can find on mine is some writing .
Laminated figure belgium .

Sometimes the stampings are on the under side of the barrels, if you take off the forestock you might find something.  If you haven't checked there already, that is.

[Flench]

No , I have not looked under the stock . It been put up so long I had forgot about it until now . Think I will carry it and have it cleaned up if there worth that kind of money . I could never sell it but I could make a place for it on my fireplace in my new home .