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The sense I get is that American classic smallbores still move pretty well at reasonable prices. When you look at what's available, you see lots of 12's--which is understandable since far more 12's were made. I think it's even truer with Brit doubles, where there's an even greater spread between 12's made vs smallbores. The smaller gauges move well. LGS had PA A.H. Fox 'Sterlingworth' 16ga with medium weight barrels with Whiteline recoil pad and poorly installed single non-selective trigger of origin not known to me. I passed on the gun because the inertia trigger did not work right. It sold quickly despite $1400 price tag. They also had 16ga West German Sauer, pre-WWII 16ga Simson, German Merkel 147 20ga. All sold in reasonable time and not for give away prices. The 12ga offerings seem to linger on.
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The LGS said that the sun gauges are becoming more and more popular. I see 20ga sxs's come and go through that shop all the time, so they are moving.
12ga on the other hand...
-Leverhead
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May God bless America and those who defend her.
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I thought maybe fair weather guns as opposed to rain guns.
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These little typos may be the result of device's "autocorrect" functions. I'm constantly having to go back and correct my text before posting. It appears they were programmed by people only semi-literate, and with a small vocabulary.
Regards
Ken
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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That's correct, I made my comment via the omnipotent IPhone. Sorry I didn't catch it, whether it was a predictive text fail or a fat-fingered keyboard. SUB gauges. 
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Maybe some shooters eyes and brain just cannot handle seeing more than one barrel?
After learning to shoot and hunt with a single shot .410, my grand son tried my 1900 Parker 20 and a Repro 20, and a Weatherby Orion 20 and picked the latter. He became a good clays shooter with the Orion and has now graduated to an Orion 12 and does well with it.
Go figure?
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One of the U.K. Dealers I have patronized provides a newsletter to his clients which occasionally contains an apprisal of the market. Below is an excerpt from his fall 2016 newsletter:
"The market in the gun world has become polarised with little interest in hammer guns boxlocks & lesser known sidelocks.
Condition has become paramount & those that are not all original or have defects such as thin barrel walls do not sell except at a very reduced price."
Fairly succinct apprisal of the market in general.
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So is this the time for me to buy a long barreled Lindner Daly 12 ga. hammer gun?
SRH
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