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All, I am considering purchase of a 12ga husqvarna hammer gun. The bores a very good and the action is tight. The fore end is metal which is something I have never seen before. I have not measured the bores but I have heard that these European guns are bored very full as they were used primarily for Roe hunting. The stock plate has a very nice ingraving of what appears to be a stag. Does anyone have opinions or experience with this double from husqvarna ? By the way, the asking price is $400.00.

Sounds like any one of a number of Husqvarna underlever models. They made them up until the mid 1940's. I believe they all have 2.5" chambers. They are well made shotguns, plain and serviceable. Yes most of them are choked very tight but a few days a Mike Orlen's and you can have the chokes opened or tubes installed for around a $100. ($50/barrel) plus the cost of choke tubes.

If it is in GOOD condition, no rust and most of the blue on the barrels and no cracks in the wood (walnut, you see replacement stocks in beech and elm) $400 doesn't seem out of line.

I shoot a pare of Husqvarna 51's(top lever) for duck hunting, the ugly one for saltwater and the nice bluing for fresh. I purchased a third beater for parts, don't know if I'll ever need any but it is nice to know there are a pair of locks nice and handy.

Here is a link to about a hundred of these for sale in various condition. It's where I picked up my parts gun.

http://www.simpsonltd.com/index.php?cPath=350_354_367&osCsid=b82906e51b66c69e1c5b415b19e3b9b7

Take a look here

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=457853045

Wow.

These are nice guns. I have 3 hammer guns (2-12's and one 16)all under lever and one hammerless in 12 Ga. which is a top lever.

They all came full and fuller choked, except for one of the hammer guns which was professionally shortened and that one is Cyl/Cyl and deadly on skeet field and kicking up grouse...

They seem to attract a lot of attention as most folks haven't seen many of these.

I only shoot 2 1/2" RST's or equivalent reloads in short cartridges. It'll take a round or two to get use to the lever under the barrels but once you get the hang of it, it becomes second nature.

Fun guns. Pick one up and enjoy it... A lot more fun than a Husky Chain Saw but just as durable....

Don

A Husky Model 20 with the Lefacheux underlever started me down the slippery slope of hammerguns. Their a good gun to "get your feet wet" in the hammer gun experience.