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The first time the subject of how to close a SxS came up, I made a comment about not dropping it open, unsupported, and not flipping or slamming it closed, like some "cowboy idiot" or "idiot cowboy". I was jumped on hard by someone who was offended that I could suggest that a cowboy could be an idiot or vice-versa. I will give the "cowboy Action" shooter groups credit for one thing: they are the most safety conscious groups I have ever seen. Trap and skeet shooters could learn a lot about safety from them. As to why they want/need short barrels, the targets they shoot with their shotguns are so close a 32" barrel would put the muzzle out past most of their targets. JL

A Diamond Grade Lindner? My god!

To continue my therapy, saw a high grade 1889 Remington cut to 20" last year. This was otherwise a 90%+ gun. About the same time, saw a Durston Lefever XX frame 16 in about 80% condition trimmed to 20". -Little more to say.

I bought a pointer back from a guy I had sold it to for a big loss, because i seen the dog a month after i sold him, and he looked terrible, I was extremely upset....But 15k for a golden!!!

About the same time, saw a Durston Lefever XX frame 16 in about 80% condition trimmed to 20". -Little more to say.
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Except, NOOooooooo!!

I've had people suggest I trim my 30" Lefever XX 16 barrels and put tubes in them. If I did that, I may as well install curb feelers and hang a pair of dingle balls off the forend.

Blasphemy.

Chux

I raised and trained several hundred retrivers over the years. This Bitch had two litters of pups and all sold in advance for well above top dollar. Like most owner/breaders I could have sold 500 of her pups. I only bread her twice and stopped at that point. Her health was much more important to me than one more litter of pups. Too often a good Bitch becomes a puppy mill until it kills them.

She was the smartest, toughest, best behaved and without doubt she was the smartest dog I have ever hunted over, trained or watched. Picked up every trick, I or anyone else, tried to show her just as fast as possible. She was see one and the set for life. Almost thought she could have just been reasoned with and save all the training.

If I had her back again I would give up half my gun accumulation. She was one in a lifetime and no well healed hunter, who was a bastard in his own right, should ever own such a fine dog. Money might buy happiness for some, but not my dog. At the time, $15,000 was like $150,000 to me, but I never would have forgiven myself for that sale. Sometimes the best sale, is like the best buy, the ones that you do not make.

After watching an oaf mindlessly dry-cycle (by letting the slide slam shut, 3 times) a minty pre-war Colt Woodsman, I silently doubled the price I had in mind and watched him stalk off muttering about me being an ignorant a**hole.

Manners?- outdated it would seem.

I remember James Cann slamming a double shut in one of the John Wayne movies. Maybe the cowboy types think they know so much it's ok to do that all the time and to anyones double.
I saw a Beesley sidelock in a gun shop in Houston with barrels cut down to 20 inches. It was number 2 of a pair when it was born. It didn't last long there.

I'm don't think I should tell you this, but the aforementioned Beesley and Mr.Glenthornes are one in the same!

Soon CAS will have lasted longer than the "lives of the cowboys" as did the penny dreadful commemoration before it. How long did they use the Chisholm trail before the railroads came? In many ways, the Edwardian celebration is much the same. History becomes farce the second time around. Bowling pin shooters don't have to worry about their antecedents and no dress code.

jack

No not me Stormy, every bit of my original 30" barrels are in place.