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Barrels read Mod/IC. Advertised as IC/Cyl
Whomever F's with Model 21 barrels and chokes (with so few made) should be horsewhipped. I always felt the same way about people who put Brilley chokes in one. 
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If you are talking about the different shades of the bluing, I'm thinking it is just the lighting. I can't really tell by the pictures. I have seen people try to case color a Model 21. Buy it and find out!! Uh NO! That would be an EXCELLENT gun for you, battle!! Brent D. Prof even says so. Jump on it!!  To tarted up for me Jimmy.
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If you are talking about the different shades of the bluing, I'm thinking it is just the lighting. I can't really tell by the pictures. I have seen people try to case color a Model 21. Buy it and find out!! Uh NO! That would be an EXCELLENT gun for you, battle!! Brent D. Prof even says so. Jump on it!! I said what? Show me.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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If you are talking about the different shades of the bluing, I'm thinking it is just the lighting. I can't really tell by the pictures. I have seen people try to case color a Model 21. Buy it and find out!! Uh NO! That would be an EXCELLENT gun for you, battle!! Brent D. Prof even says so. Jump on it!! I said what? Show me. Right there. Page seven. You said those barrels sure did match his baby blue eyes.
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Not a match Jimmy. I have dark green eyes, or hazel if your prefer that...
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Barrels read Mod/IC. Advertised as IC/Cyl
Whomever F's with Model 21 barrels and chokes (with so few made) should be horsewhipped. I once bought one from a Canadian dealer. Very low serial number, early production. Price wasn't nuts, so I rolled the dice. Because of the discrepancy between the listed and stamped choke descriptions (not described in the listing), and because the forend was sloppy-loose, also not described in the listing, I sent it right back. Too much trouble for me to un-fudge; it's not like I live next door to a competent double shotgun 'smith. Got a full refund minus return postage. I've learned to ask for deeply-intrusive pictures and descriptions of condition and conditions of sale since, from private sellers and dealers alike. But. I can at least say I owned an early Winchester Model 21 for a week. I like them, as a species.
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About 15 years ago I was at the National Gun Day gun show in Louisville. I had started collecting Model 21s and I was looking for another one to buy. I got to the table belonging to Charles Hancock from Tennessee and there was a beat up Model 21 laying on his table with a $1900.00 price tag. The bluing was worn a little bit. The center bead was broken off. It had the old style buttstock that they put on the first ones and it had a beavertail forearm that looked homemade, but it still was pretty nice. It was a 12 gauge, with double triggers and extractors. I kept looking at it for some time and finally Charles came over and said, "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you what. I'll let you have that gun for $1600.00 dollars." So I bought it. When I got home I noticed the 28" barrels had been honed out to I/C and I/C and someone had taken a center punch and punched over the words Full and Full on the barrels. I took it to my gunsmith and had him replace the center bead with a gold one. And I put a leather covered (KICKEEZ) pad on it. My first one I ever did, actually. Over the years that gun has been an excellent beater. And a great skeet gun. It has worked flawlessly. I have really enjoyed having it.
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Best deals I have gotten in recent years is a non ejector 20 for $650 and a non ejector 12 for $1100. If I go back into the mid sixties, there was a mint pair, 12 and 20 ejector guns in an oak and leather Purdey trunk case for an even one thousand dollars. Around the same time, I bought a non ejector 28" 12 for $425.
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When considering how little time we have on this earth, aren't they all best deals? My most recent "Best Deal", ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/0cJh8ES.jpg)
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pretty
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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