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I just ran across a nice example of a Flues Model in 20-gauge. Very good weight (5 3/4 lbs) and dimensions (14 1/4 LOP to the plate, 28-tubes), it even has some very attractive light engraving. I've just not seen many 20s, and most (if not all) that I have run across have been badly used-up. The price tag seemed shockingly inexpensive. Is there something about the Flues guns that I don't know about? I would assume that because of it's rather petite nature, that lower pressure/lower velocity shells would be good policy. Is there something else?
Last edited by Lloyd3; 01/21/16 06:36 PM.
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You got the scoop. They are sweet handling guns. IMO, they do not deserve the reputation they have acquired.
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If the gun is sound and fits you, go for it. I love them. Especially the 20 with 28" barrels. Feed it LP ammo and you will be in high cotton.
Enjoy!
Bill Johnson
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You know, before my 'education' If it had steel barrels, I shot whatever I had. Never had a problem.
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When I was a boy my dad had a field grade 12ga with "smokeless powder steel" barrels that digested at least 3 boxes of Remington high brass heavy field load 6's every year for decades without a hickup. That gun kicked HARD but it is still tight to this day.
At 15 years old, a buddy and I were hunting ducks on the creek. when I fired the Flues, both barrels went off at what seemed like the same time. Thought it had blown up, but it turned out to be a broken trigger spring.
Years later, I had it refurbished. The smith showed me a crack in the receiver on the water table in the thin section on the right side. Welded it up and recase colored it. Still shooting it today although it gets a steady diet of <6k 1 oz loads now. Unknowingly shot it a number of years after it doubled with the cracked receiver. Assuming that's what cracked it.
Took a lickin and kept on tickin.
12ga field Flues 12ga 1S Flues 16ga 1S 30" Krupp Flues 20ga 1-1/2 damascus Flues 28ga gr2 Flues
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Bill Johnson
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Wonderful little doubles. Mine has 30" bbls but is a tad on the heavy side I think, 6lbs 6oz.
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Thanks folks! It's always a treat to pick up an American gun that isn't big and tanky. My upland hunting almost always involves lots of walking and a gun at (or slightly under) 6lbs is always the better choice. The few American guns that seem to regularly achieve this surprisingly uncommon weigh-point are almost always priced into the stratosphere (i.e., graded Parkers, Lefevers, and Foxes). The few exceptions I've encountered are the early sub-gauge Sterlingworths and now this little Flues. Always fun to learn something new. I may go back and pay this gun another visit.
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When I use to live near KTP, they always a Flues or two kicking around on the gun racks. Found them light and swift, and pointed well. Never handled one with 30" or 32" barrels, but I feel they point better then they swing. Thusly a good grouse gun IMO.
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Statement about Ithaca Flues made in Ebonics: When I use to live near KTP, they always a Flues or two kicking around on the gun racks. English Translation of the statement above: When I used to live near KTP, there was always a Flues or two kicking around on the gun racks.Wow. I'm never surprised that you flunked out of college nca225. The question is, how in hell did you ever get in?
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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