I was in Franklin Sports (Athens, GA) a couple of months ago scrounging thru a box of odd discounted ammo when Mark (the proprietor's son) told me he had a file cabinet full of odd ammo (read partial boxes) in the back room; and if I was interested, I could ramble thru his stash to see if there was anything there I wanted. I said why not and proceeded thusly. About half-way thru my investigaion, Mark returned and asked if I was finding what I needed to which I responded NO; as I was really hoping to find some 14 gauge shotgun shells. And to that comment Mark replied; well I don't any 14 gauge stuff; but I got this old gun here you might be interested in, whereupon he reached up to the rack to pulled down an ugly old H & R single-shot. So Mark sez, this here is something I can't put on the showroom floor 'cause all the accessories would disappear. This here is a 32 gauge dart gun. I've got the adapter that shoots .22 power loads and the tranquilizer dart that originally came with the gun; and if you want 32 gauge shells, I've got plently and I'll make you a deal. So I sez, while I don't foresee that I'll be tranquilin' no bears anytime soon, the prospects of having a 32 gauge pest popper is sorta' interetin'; whatcha' gotta have on a rig like that? Well, he sez, you caught me in the right mood; for you Friend, $100 out the door. Long story short, I didn't see how I could go wrong at that price; so I bought the gun and two boxes of 32 gauge #8's. I then take my new toy home only to learn that these Fiochi shells are about 3/8" too long for the chamber. So in frustration, I forced the gun shut (in a safe direction of course) with a shell in the chamber just to make sure I hadn't been shot a line about bore size; well the gun opened OK afterwards, but the stuck shell would not extract. So I got my cleaning rod, bumped the shell from chamber; and basically what I had was a perfect chamber cast of the forcing cone. I then cleaned the crud from the bore and discovered the barrel on this gun was rifled. I still like the idea of a 32 gauge pest gun; but for the time being this gun is in my project pile as I don't know if it would be possible to appropriately lengthen the chamber (32 gauge reamers probably not very common?), and I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to mess with the chamber on this gun anyway? Just one more chapter in Tom's block-buster best selling book, "How to Earn Your PhD in Gun Collecting Thru Your Wallet".
