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It's here.









My early American Pigeon gun. Big and heavy, lots of drop, and choked mod & mod. Fresh from a total tear-down (to bits!) and a thorough ultrasonic clean-up (it had oxidized whale-oil residue just about everywhere inside it), checkering re-cut, laminated steel barrels refinished & the original stock stabilized. It's been pronounced "fit" for almost whatever I'd want to feed it (w/45-thou tubes at the breech & ~40-thou at the muzzles). Bring on Whittington!

Very, very, neat Damascus pattern.
Nice gun. But, what other than the fact it shoots shotgun shells would deem this a pigeon gun?
Also I can’t tell- is it truly an early Quality 1 gun or a Grade 1 ?

Well... it's big, long, and heavy (to swing smoothly and absorb recoil) & it's choked perfectly for such an endeavor. It has the infamous 3-position safety (that dangerously renders the automatic safety moot in the back position). It also has that large (& wide), raised, prominent (& stippled!) LC Smith rib (I can't remember the proper name for it, but it was mentioned repeatedly in the Fulton-based advertising over the years). Compared to my other doubles (which are all game guns and mostly no-fun to shoot targets with) it's simply huge. It also has a fair-amount of drop (2-inches and 3-inches) and yet it still fits me (which is a bit of a surprise). I love it!

It is a very early Quality 1 gun (2nd year of production, as confirmed by the good folks over on the LC Smith webpage).

Well awesome, good looking gun. I hope it gets put through the paces. No matter what it is.

Thankyou Sir!

I was a bit of a gamble to buy it, but I had a secret weapon (in the form of a mostly-retired and super-competent gunsmith friend). I also knew he was a closet LC Smith guy so...for very little money I took the risk of buying it (online, from an unknown source, & with no-option of returning it). I grew up with an inherited Elsie Field Grade (long-since moved along) so this is like coming home.

Doesn’t sound like much risk at all?

SWEET !!
Is it coming to Raton??

'Tis!

Wow!! That's really wonderful, Lloyd. I bet it'll shoot like a dream. Good luck with that ol' buddy!!

Thanks Jimmy. I guess I'm shooting American guns again.