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Bob, my Lindner Daly is .047/.047 When you figure out what to call it, let me know.  Tighter than the spandex on a 400 pound woman
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700 12 gauges isn’t very many. I’m not going to mess with mine. I know it is a very overused term, but, these are a bargain.
Best,
Ted
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Don’t forget that chrome lined barrels look like ass after they’ve been teamed.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Greg,
I don't believe that Browning chrome lined those barrels.
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Even though fairly rare with 1100 total pieces, and being rather nice guns, I don’t know how ‘collectible’ the Japanese made Browning BSS Sidelock shotgun really is, at least at this point in time. People are different, and some prefer 28” barrels over 26” for shooting/hunting. With that said, I have not heard of any of the 28” guns with open chokes from the factory. If I bought the 28” gun as a safe queen, I’d leave the chokes alone. If I bought it to hunt upland game over pointing dogs, esp Ruffed Grouse hunting, I’d open the chokes, and would have a pro do the barrel work. Plus, all those guns have 14 1/4” LOP. For me to shoot, I’d have to lengthen the stock to 15” LOP in a DT gun, and there again......goes away the originality.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Yep...they photograph well but for what they are 12 gauges are over priced.
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Took my BSS Sidelock out to the range this past weekend. 12 gauge, 28", DT, English, Factory choked Full/Mod.
I loaded some Federal paper hulls with a 7/8 oz load with a spreader disks and had at em' on a Skeet field.
23 first round, 21 the second. All losses out of the left barrel.
Pulverized doesn't begin to describe how hard this gun hit clay.
With some 1 oz 1190 FPS paper loads, this little 6 1/2 lb marvel dusted birds out to 65 yards. Hmm.
65 yard SKEET targets? Well, I guess if I were to shoot skeet targets at 65 yards, then I certainly wouldn't want a gun choked skeet/skeet! Whether to open a very tightly choked barrel . . . depends on what you want to do with the gun. For some reason, the Japanese choked Parker Repro 28ga guns with 28" barrels M/F . . . which might have been OK except for the fact that the constrictions they used are more appropriate for a 12ga than a 28ga. Even M/F constrictions for a 28ga are tighter than I want. But then my uses would be recreational skeet, grouse and woodcock, and quail. Might want those tighter chokes for doves, but I don't shoot them. Unless your gun has "collectible" value, I see no reason not to open a choke that's tighter than you want for your intended purposes. Even when I was shooting a lot of wild pheasants, I didn't want anything tighter than maybe a tight mod in the L barrel of my sxs. That's because I don't intend to take shots beyond 40 yards. Increases the chances of crippling and losing a bird, even with a good dog.
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On Japanese Parker Repros, here is a fine article by David Trevallion on the subject. Just been published in "Shooting Sportsman." https://shootingsportsman.com/parkerrepro/
Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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Yep...they photograph well but for what they are 12 gauges are over priced. Some folks choose to listen to guys like Jack Haugh, Kirk Merrington, James Flynn, Abe Chaber, and George Hoenig, for opinions on the quality of the BSS sidelocks, and figure out for themselves what they should pay for one, instead of a blow hard with an SBE on an internet board. You have no idea what the subject gun cost. Name another gun that is a Holland pattern sidelock, with chopper lump barrels, intercepting sears, Southgate ejectors, AND 2 3/4” chambers, that is a better deal, blow hard. Go ahead. Ted
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I been trying to be nice to you Ted since you been sickly...(I'd hate for you to get your blood pressure up a pop something in yer eYe.)
Ive handled a few and I don't think they compare to an English sidelock in workmanship or feel...I can think they are over priced and you can think they're not.
Would it be nice if I called you a "blow hard" because you think a Mossburg pump is the finest pump gun ever made ?
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