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"What is the Best gun made in Anerica before 1900?"[/b]

[quote=old colonel]

Easy question. Answer Remington 1894. The best shotguns with American name engraved on them at that time were Birmingham-made Winchester hammer guns. Those were the best two barrel shotguns Winchester ever sold.

I should mention that one of the best bird guns made here was the legendary 7lb 12ga Remington 11-96. It came with lightened steel receiver, Light Contour barrel with RemChokes. It was gun of the year at the time it was put together, rightfully so. Very advanced design. You load magazine tube pull the slide and after trigger is pulled the system self-loads cartridges utilizing metering gas system ie. very, very advanced design. The big upside is it hits like a twelve and recoils like a 20.