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Not sure if I ever posted this if ignore.. After selling my collection of doubles about 12 or more years ago, I went with my favorite the pump gun.. Have model 12's and model 31's and model 97's.. But my favorites are here: on the left is my old 870 field 12ga. It has been in action since the mid 1970's.. In the middle is a 20 ga. love it, but still am a 12 bore man at heart I guess.. On the right is a special field 12.. My desert quail gun.. Have a 28 in and 870 also.. was my forest grouse gun for a couple years.. still use it once in a while.. Old friends each one..
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1956 12 gauge Ithaca Model 37. Barrel cut to 18.5" LOP chopped to 12.5"
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Outdoor photos of same gun 1956 12 gauge Ithaca Model 37. Barrel cut to 18.5" LOP chopped to 12.5"
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My old school browning 2000 only shoots, 2 3/4". Hoping to sometime very soon get a modern pellet pusher if my plans, don't pan out I'm plenty cool with packing this beautiful girl around.
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Nothing fancy here. Top down: Beretta 12 ga. 470 Silver Hawk; Beretta 20 ga. 471 Silver Hawk; AyA 4/53 28 ga. And to show I'm open-minded and believe in diversity ;), a Beretta A400 Xplor.
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I have been in the habit of trading away and one I regret is my mid-60's vintage 870 Wing master. The 28" tube with a fixed modified choke was about the perfect storm for Iowa pheasants.
And even I could field strip it, clean it, and move on to the next field.
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My old school browning 2000 only shoots, 2 3/4". Hoping to sometime very soon get a modern pellet pusher if my plans, don't pan out I'm plenty cool with packing this beautiful girl around. Perhaps the biggest sleeper in modern automatics. These guns were superbly made and the design and function surpassed any of it's peers...
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Marlin model 90 that I recently picked up.
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My three favorites, top is a '57 Superposed 20g long tang round knob middle is a '72 BSS 20g and bottom is a '71 BSS 12g both very early examples of the first guns Miroku produced for Browning in the BSS line.
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The C.S. Holmes was owned by the Backland family and sailed to Point Barrow in the fur trade. It was one of the last working 4 masted schooners and many photographs exist of it. During the 1930s Seattle dock strike the Backlands bought shotguns and sawed some of them off to 18.5 inches. These were kept the ship's hold. ~1952 my aunt married young Captain Backland, after the ship sank in WWII. The shotguns survived and a sawed off Winchester 1897 made in 1939 was given to my father in 1959 for Christmas. He had Warshall's of Seattle fit a new Winchester barrel. In 1963 my father bought himself a new Remington 1100 and the 1897 was passed down to me, at age 12. While dove hunting in Topinish WA, I fell in volcanic soil, and then next time I fired, the muzzle peeled like a banana. We went to a gas station and borrowed a hack saw. The 1897 was sawed off again. My father cut off part of the butt to fit my 85 pound frame. By the time I was 14, I weighed 100 pounds and could limit on pheasants in Warden WA before my father or his friends could get off a shot. I was with a shotgun like 14 years olds are today with video games. I could shoot pheasants from the hip with my sawed off 1897. And the dogs liked me best. My father had a Poly Choke fitted on the muzzle. In 2000 I was in Lynnwood Guns and Ammo and said I was trying relive my boyhood and looking for another 1897 with a poly choke. I was led into the back room where there was more than enough parts to build one. I paid $75 for the parts. I got the AGI video on 1897 Winchesters [excellent video] and assembled another one. In 2012 I inherited the family 1897.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Very cool story, thanks for sharing.
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Awesome story and pictures clarkm. I just spent a few days in eastern Washington and wish I could hit them from the hip.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"- Michael Scott
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Beretta Silver Pigeon 1 12g.... Incoming, still on layby... Should make a nice partner to my 28g SP1.
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Rattle-canned daughters 870. Grandson helped... DMc
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My wife inherited her Dad's Garbi that he had built in 2001. He put 176,000 rounds through in. I put about 15 through it last Saturday.
long before Rodriguez stole that goat.
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Love those SP I's! I've got a 20, 28 and 410, all 28" barrels.
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Beautiful shotgun! What a great family heirloom! Looks like it works well for you as well!
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