Do you use the wrench on the gun? Just kidding.
James Wayne brought in a group of those guns, graded, case hardened 28s. You do have to watch the chamber lengths, 2 1/2” was the common 28 gauge length on the continent, long after 2 3/4” was standard on everything else. R12 seems to be the common number, it was likely a cleanup of parts shorty before the end of the road. The company suffered an embezzlement toward the end of the 1970s, and closed the doors for a few years.
I walked into a local gun shop on my lunch break at work, and they had a leather cased pair of those guns, 29” tubes, 28 gauge, for stupid cheap $2500. I told the guy I didn’t have the money on me, but, would be back in an hour or so.
When I got back, they were gone. Those guns haunt me, to this day.
Good hunting, in the coming new year.
Best,
Ted
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