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How rare are 32" barrels on a 20 ga. field grade L.C. Smith?
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I own a Trap Grade ejector 20g with 32" barrels. I've seen one or two others.
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Chuck H, you are a lucky fellow. How much drop does the stock have?
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The Cody Firearms Museum can give you that information, and research your gun, for a fee http://www.lcsmith.org/shotguns/search.html
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KMM,
I found the gun with the original stock chopped to about 12"LOP. So, I had a guy in Oregon machine a stock to my builtup pattern and head it up. I was so disappointed with his work that I put it away for a couple years. I should pull it out and finish it. In the scheme of things it's not all that bad, especially for the money. You get what you pay for.... It will finish up nicely, but the inletting is just so, so. Glass bedding took care of his sins which mostly won't show. It's a really nice piece of feather black. It'll make a heck of a nice SD phez gun or for an occasional round of sporting clays.
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Abner,
I don't know how rare they are, but, if you have one, there are a least two.
Hairy
This ain't Dodge City, and you ain't Bill Hickok!-Matthew Quigley
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It seems there were only 7 32" barreled 20 ga. L.C.'s made from Olympic Grade to A-3. From 1907-1918 After that the only breakdown would be the Cody Museum. There was 1 A-2 out of 200 total guns made, 2 Premiers out of 28 guns made, 2 Monograms out of 128 total in the first serial number series, and 2 out of 138 made in the second series serial numbers. No Deluxes, Grown Grades and Olympic Grades with a 20 ga. 32" barrels. Also there are no 16 ga. 32" barrels in any of those grades.
So no matter what grade you have, you are lucky to have one. It's hard enough finding a 32" barrel in a Field Grade.
In Chuck H. area in the 20's there was a gun club in the bay area I believe that specilized in 20 ga 32" barreled guns.
Revdocdrew knows the name of the club, it slipped my mind.
David
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A couple were the Widgeon (which ordered a number of 3" chambered 20s from Parker) and DuBray. Interesting reading http://www.gunsandhunting.com/MakingMagnums.html
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I believe my gun is a '20s gun. My CRS is acting up again. It's proofed 2 3/4" Nitro (NP) and has the extra wide bottom filler between the forend lug and watertable on the barrels.
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From what I've seen in my years of looking I'd say that Parker Bros. made the most 32-inch 20-gauges, followed by L.C. Smith a distant 2nd place. 20-gauge Ansley H. Fox and Ithaca doubles with 32-inch barrels seem to be really few and very far between. A few years ago at the winter Las Vegas show I looked at six different 32-inch barrel Parker Bros. 20-gauges, a Crown Grade L.C. Smith and a Grade 4E NID with all the options.
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