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Ryan, that is a great looking "shortened" Model 97. I have a couple of 97 Brush Guns that are from the factory as yours is "not from the factory". With 12 gauge shells, it just doesn't matter. The "brush gun" is a great all purpose bird gun.
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Lots of busted/altered/pooched pump guns out there to make projects out of. Did the same concept with an Ithaca 37. Someday Im going to make a clunker 97 into a rifled slug gun. I dont think it will be too difficult. Just need one with a bad barrel. Something like this one. http://www.gunauction.com/buy/11612846 I don't know why I want it but I do. I would like a short barreled O/U too.
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I get a kick out of the dealers who state in their ads- "Pre-64" for the Model 97 pumpguns- hell yes, it was discontinued in 1957, seven years before WRA "screwed their own pooch" and dropped the Model 12 and the good Mauser actioned Model 70's-- Some of these numbnutz actually think the Model 1912 Winchester was the predecessor to the Model 12 Winchester-- Model 1912 from 1912 (surprise) to 1919, when WRA decided to drop the numerals 1 and 9 from the barrel roll stamping die, hence the Model 12- trying to convince them of that fact is like trying to shove a pound of melted butter up a cougar's [censored] with a red hot poker, while in a phone booth with said critter-
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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After I wrote this I got up from my easy chair and checked it again....
Yea I did make the mistake of checking it with the barrels off. I put a caliper on the other end and got an additional .17" so I guess that is pretty close to 2 3/4"
Since many of the manufacturers used slightly short chambers in the days of paper shells, I guess 2 3/4" is correct. My mistake
Jerry
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No problem, it is an easy one to make. I have found that the most accurate way to measure the length of the barrel on a Model 1897, or a Model 12 (or it's two clones, both short lived)-- take a Stanley tape rule and run it down the barrel from the muzzle, hook the tab on the back edge of the chamber ring, and read it at the muzzle. A friend has an early Model 1897 non-takedown with the damascus barrel, and it has 2&5/8" chambers--
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Haven't bought one yet. Still looking around for a good deal. Lots of them out there ........ most of them are asking $100-200 too much for the gun's condition.
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If you find a nice one you'll have to pay a premium.
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I saw a Black Diamond Grade Model 97 at a gun show recently that would knock your socks off!!
Big sign: "Display only NOT FOR SALE"
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