Small world Vini! I was in back room when sales person brought gun out for you. If you decide to part with it down the line I might be interested....was wondering if it would be a good 2nd barrel donor for my "new" 3E, never had time to check it over good. Is tight gun with crisp triggers though, hope you enjoy it.
Mine is very light as well, have been really digging for some improvised 3/4oz loads for it, have some ideas if you are interested.
Best,
Mark
My old Flues is a POS incapable of donating much. The new one is too nice to cut up. Regardless, the barrels and forends on the two are not the same and not interchangeable. The new one's barrels also weigh a half lb. more than the '09.
The one I bought is in perfect mechanical condition. I cleaned the bores when I got home and they are perfect. What looked like light pitting ahead of the chambers after your co-worker ran a rod through it cleaned up fine. The only issue on the gun other than some handling marks was the 1" taken off the stock to install the pad. With a new pad it'll be good to go.
That gun was there for a while but it was listed over $1000 ($1300? it think) which was a bit much. I've bought four guns from Hammond in the last year and they've all been good deals (IMO) that were way over priced initially but got reasonable after a few months. I did pick up a very nice $300 Husky 17 a couple months ago from that pile of %&$*(#@ they bought from Simpson. Other than that your store has really thinned down the SxS double gun selection. Is that a permanent change or the current economic climate?
