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It's probably my screen, but it might be a bit of a nicer gun if the duck pics were scrapped and the extra was put into finer scroll work.
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It did 100% of the gunning in Argentina twice, a total of approximately 10,000 rounds in a total of 48 hours of shooting, plus 14 years of dove shooting and clays here, and it's never failed once. Ejectors have never broken, and the single trigger has never failed, doubled or in any way hiccuped. After hundreds of fast paced rounds in Argentina I would have to run a chamber brush in it a few times to restore full strength ejection. The hot barrels would build up with plastic residue in the chambers.
It is most likely the last modern made gun I own that I would ever sell.
SRH
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Seven pounds, four ounces.
Covered with ducks.
Chambered for... 2 3/4".
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Light weight and svelt compared to a 20-gauge Super-Fox, or my 32-inch barrel, 2-frame, Parker Bros. 20-gauge!! Dem web footed fowls look a lot better then Parker Bros. "flying turnips."
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Yes, Researcher, but it's 2017.
SIX and a quarter pound guns are routinely chambered for 20 gauge 3" these days. I find 2 3/4" chambers curious. 'Why' eludes me.
As far as maybe being a special order, there's no telling but the fact is that it's for sale by a dealer now.
Sales departments usually hedge heir bets on bird guns, and use more than one species of bird on a general purpose gun. Appeals to a wider audience that way. Very few rim fire rifles have engravings of big game animals, and it's not likely you will find a bunny chiseled on a 470.
As far as the girl on the gun... that's a sure sign you're going to have trouble with it.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I love that pistol grip design and that deeply-grooved sunburst grip cap. Wood don't get any better than that, either.
JR
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Only if you don't buy an endless stream of flowers and jewelry and dinners and so on and so forth.
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It's not too hard for me to understand why the gun does not have 3" chambers. I've burned tens of thousands of 20 ga. shells in my life ......... and not the first 3" one. Not one.
Maybe there is a gunmaker, or a shooter somewhere who orders a gun, that understands not everyone wants to shoot 12 ga. shells in a 20 ga. gun.
SRH
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The downside of a 3" chambering would be.... ?
It would certainly appeal to a wider audience, hell it might even sell.
I agree it is a beautiful gun, and I would look stunning behind it.
There seems to be a shortfall in my shooting budget however... I'm about 178 Big Bens short.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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If that gun had a standard checkered top lever rather than the pierced top lever that the Italians seem to love, a case colored fully scroll engraved receiver, Perazzi's version of the POW grip & solid top & side ribs you would really have something.
Love the wood, checkered side panels, bbl length, weight & 2 3/4" chambers!
Oh, & leave off the gold plated trigger.
Last edited by Brittany Man; 05/23/17 09:06 PM.
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The downside of a 3" chambering would be.... ?
It would certainly appeal to a wider audience, hell it might even sell.
That would prolly be a good marketing move were this a production gun, but it's not. Production guns need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Guns like this don't. SRH
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