Thanks guys!
This gun has become one of my favourite pheasant guns. It has a long and colourful past. I purchased it from my wife's uncle for $200.00 as I wanted to keep it in the family.
It was made with full and modified chokes to which I had changed to i.c. and mod. The gun is in great shape with great wood and bluing on the barrels has thinned due to age.
There is no damage to the barrels inside or out. There is no sign of bluing on the receiver despite being buried in a muck slide at a chemical plant. It was lost to the original buyer for years where it turned up in a Negro barbershop in Virginia. How it got back to the original owner, I was not informed. I guess that somebody in the past polished the receiver to bright metal.
Today's value means nothing to me but I guess that is not worth much. Perhaps my son or daughter will keep it in the family when I am gone, but once again, "It is just an old gun. "So sad."
Franchi
