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#615763 06/13/22 05:44 PM
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Just bought one at auction, not seen it yet.

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Bottom gun, top is a Valmet Skeet.

Johnny at ProofhouseTGS/TGS Outdoors on YouTube is at least partly to blame.

I know I have read an article on SKB in DGJ in recent years.

Can anyone remember year or issue?

Or why I thought I needed it?

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I had one a long time ago always worked not bad looking. do you really need an excuse to buy one

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Bought my first new one at G.U. in Omaha, Nebraska in 99’. A field 505. Great gun. My full time waterfowling piece nowadays is a old SKB built Weatherby Orion. Pretty damn tough guns…built to last that’s for sure. The Orion has been fed a lot of stout 1 1/4 Oz steel loads in its lifetime….and I just sent it back to SKB in Omaha to get a new top lever spring, an ejector spring and the locking bolt replaced. Not too bad for a 30+ year old gun that has seen a lot of legit use in its lifetime.

Parts are still available, factory maintenance is reasonably priced and do it yourself maintenance is pretty straightforward. Stout, simple, very well built guns.

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Thanks, that’s comforting.

Just hoping this one hasn’t been “rid hard and put away wet”.

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Originally Posted by Parabola
Thanks, that’s comforting.

Just hoping this one hasn’t been “rid hard and put away wet”.

If it has…..you’re in luck. Most all of the important parts are readily available….even new stock sets. If everything checks out and is on the up and up…..I’d go ahead and order a couple of mainsprings, a top lever spring, and a locking bolt. With those basic parts and minimal fitting….you’ll basically have a new gun if any of those parts happen to wear out on you. If the trigger hasn’t been monkeyed with too bad and works as it should….you’re in business.

https://www.skbshotguns.com/parts-tools

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Enjoy! Carried one as a grouse gun for many years. 20ga. Choked SK/SK. Wonderful gun. About to gift it to my son. It’s always been a favorite of his. Now he’ll have zero reasons not to join me this fall.

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Johnny must have had one to sell.

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At least mine is not the BSA SKB 500 one he was showing with the “why bother if that is all you are going to do?” few lines of engraving.

He did suggest looking for SKB instead of a BSA SKB.

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I would say late 70's for the SKB. They were all great guns


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OK, just to save the search. What is a BSA SKB? I know of Ithaca/SKB, Matsui SKB , SKB /SKB and also Turk/ SKB,(NOT SKB). I have a couple Ithaca/SKB, A 100 and a 600. Just want to know, Thanks!

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