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I have a 4E and a 7E 20 gauge NIDs with 30 inch barrels. Once owned a 20 gauge NIG with 32 inch barrels.
Last edited by Walter C. Snyder; 05/18/07 07:17 PM.
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I once owned a 20 ga. LC Smith Field grade with 30" barrels, F & F. Wish I still owned it.
Gordon
If you don't fly first class, your heir's will!
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A friend has a 34" 20 Ga LC. It is not for sale, but an interesting piece.
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I just saw a pair of bar in wood Purdey 20 bore hammerguns circa 1878 with 30 1/2 inch barrels. Dynamic guns!
All the best, Mal
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Hello Gents:
I inherited a Parker 20 VHE with 30 inch pipes which I've been hunting upland with for the past 15 years. My great grandfather originally bought it as a duck gun, complete with F/F chokes. It has been through a few iterations, the latest being a Turnbull recase and refinish of the now unoriginal stock. I use it every season to chase 100 or so targets and a few prairie sharptails and blue grouse, usually handloaded with low pressure spreaders. Still a workhorse!
About 10 years ago I came across a VHE in 16 ga. with 32 inch barrels at a backwater gunshow here in Montana. It was choked EF/F, also set up for waterfowl apparently. Being hotblued, I thought little harm in opening the EF barrel to M, and I now use it as perhaps my favorite wild pheasant gun.
Both guns carry and handle wonderfully (I actually shoot the 16 somewhat better, particularly on long crossers).
If I could find more long barrelled guns, I'd sure get into another one!
Ben
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Have owned 2 Darnes in 20 gauge with, just to be different, 29 1/2" barrels. Both guns weighed under 6 lbs, the one I still own is 5 lbs 12 ozs. The first was choked quite tightly, and was a favorite of mine for clay birds and roosters, the second has modern (bigger) bores and IC and IM chokes. I'm struggling at the pattern board to find a 7/8ths oz load that really works well in this gun, but, every 1 oz load is a winner, so far. I hate 1 oz 20 gauge loads. Isn't that what a 16 is for?
20 gauge is the rare number in Darne guns. Fewest made by far, over the years.
Best,
Ted
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Hey Ted did you receive the PM I sent you awhile back about the Darne trygun that was for sale?
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The interest in 30 & 32 inch barreled guns seems to be fueled by current popularity of sporting clays and dove hunting. Since I don't hunt dove and shoot more skeet and 5 stand than SC, if I were to order a new CSM M21 20ga or K-20 I would probably stick with 28".
Last edited by Erik W; 05/19/07 10:55 PM.
A Springer Spaniel, a 6# double and a fair day to hunt.
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No, Mike, the PM feature isn't what is used to be, at least not for me.
Sounds interesting, but, I need a try gun like I need, well, another gun. Thanks for thinking of me, though...
Best,
Ted
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My uncle's early NID 16 "Star Model' w/ejectors and cocking indicators came with 30" "full and fuller" barrels. He bought it cheap in a store in Long Beach, California in 1938 after the person who had orginally ordered it failed to pick it up, and it sat there unsold for about seven years. Long-barreled small-guage doubles with TIGHT chokes seem to have been the rage in Southern California at one time....My uncle never used it for anything but to blast rats and crows--it and a Colt "pre-Woodsman" and an old nickeled Benjamin air rifle were his "arsenal." Now that I think of it, that isn't a bad arsenal for a practical fellow (non-gun-nut) to have. (The 16 is now IC and full and I use it for more traditional purposes, like pheasants, ducks and informal trap--my brother has the Colt; maybe the Benjamin was buried with Uncle Ray!).
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