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Post by Carolinaman on May 20, 2017 12:49:12 GMT -5
Hello, Over the years, I have owned at least a dozen or so shotguns. Some have passed as my interests changed. I have owned some really "high end" shotguns that included Berettas 686 and others. However, this one remains a favorite and it wasn't a very expensive shotgun when it was built. It is a simple Crescent Arms SXS in 12 gauge.  It has a lovely English Style stock and traditional fore end. Hopefully, it will go to the dove fields with me this fall. Best, Chris |
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Post by huntershooter on May 21, 2017 19:28:03 GMT -5
Love SXS's.
My favorite upland guns.
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Post by CXM on Jun 11, 2017 14:20:14 GMT -5
Finding myself with a few minutes on my hand I thought I'd add to the shotgun thread... with what is my fav shotgun overall... This gun is from around 1884 it came from a long deceased family member who used it to hunt ducks in the swamps of Louisiana...I surmise he must have been a pretty tough dude all things considered  Everything about this gun is jumbo sized...  Here is a 12ga shell placed on the breech of the old gun...  This is a Greener double 4ga... I have never fired it and doubt I ever will if for no other reason than it has Damascus barrels. Whilst it has little utility it is a good conversation piece and a bit of family history... part of which will go unreported as a concession to political correctness... In it's day Greener was a fairly up market gun... and Greener is still in business today... they will restore old guns but it would have to be shipped to England and I expect the total restoration price would buy a pretty nice car. V/r Chuck |
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Post by Carolinaman on Jun 12, 2017 10:55:09 GMT -5
Hello Chuck, That is a fantastic shotgun! It reminds of the one's described in James Michner's book "Chesapeake" when he describes duck hunting on the "Bay" back during the turn of the century. It is truly a historical firearm...  I certainly would cherish it.... Best, Chris |
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Post by huntershooter on Jun 13, 2017 5:10:07 GMT -5
Ouch.
Tough ancestor indeed.
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Post by BHP940 on Jun 16, 2017 22:23:24 GMT -5
Love that Greener, reminds me of John Wayne in "Big Jake". I'm thinking of picking up a CZ Drake 12ga. for skeet to spare my Beretta. My heirloom is my grandfather's old Hercules 12ga goose gun. Not worth much, but priceless to me. I do still have my first shotgun, a Stevens 20ga single shot, I got it for my 12th birthday.
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Post by CXM on Jun 17, 2017 9:01:00 GMT -5
For many of us (me included) the story with a gun is as valued as the gun it's self... I have a Colt's 1911 that my grandmother used in 1919 to terminate a home invader who struck whilst my grandfather was away at WWI... My grandmother was at home with my aunt who was about 4 months old at the time. The story is somewhat long but interesting... to me at least. Wouldn't trade that old 1911 for love or money... V/r Chuck Love that Greener, reminds me of John Wayne in "Big Jake". I'm thinking of picking up a CZ Drake 12ga. for skeet to spare my Beretta. My heirloom is my grandfather's old Hercules 12ga goose gun. Not worth much, but priceless to me. I do still have my first shotgun, a Stevens 20ga single shot, I got it for my 12th birthday. |
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Post by gt40doc on Jun 17, 2017 13:50:42 GMT -5
I agree with Chuck, the story that goes with various guns that we have in our possession makes them worth far more than Gun Broker prices. I have my father's first 22cal single shot and 410ga single shot shotgun. He used them to teach his three sons gun safety and how to hunt. Many years ago I refinished both guns to nice condition, because I wanted to do it. The bore on that 22cal is completely shot out, but I don't care. It is a Stevens Little Scout with a factory 14 1/2in. bbl. that he got with so many (?) bread wrappers and one(1) dollar!! It is a boy's gun built in the early 1900s.
The shotgun is the cost efficient Iver Jonson single shot 410ga. I have no idea how much game(ducks, quail, etc.) have been taken with this gun, but a bunch!! I hunted a lot during the cooler months, and my mother would cook any game that I gathered.....but I had to clean/skin it. Extra meat on the table was never scoffed at in my house. So many fond memories with these guns!!
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Post by Jäger on Jun 21, 2017 1:05:53 GMT -5
I have a couple of favorite shotguns. One is a Superposed; pictures of them are everywhere so we'll pass on that one. A couple are more special to me however. The first is a Browning 2000. I bought it in early 1974 as my consolation prize. I had always dreamed about owning a Remington 870 as a teenager; used to look at the ads for them in every issue of Outdoor Life. Well, eventually I had a job that paid enough and I bought the 870. It took two years of suffering before I finally admitted that the 870 simply did not fit my body and my face. I don't know whether I sold the 870 or traded it on the B2000, and I bought the B2000 mostly because it had the magical name "Browning" attached. Nobody bought semiauto's where I was from, except the odd pogo stick that a few guys owned. Anyways, in the intervening 40+ years, I have no idea how many ducks, geese, pheasants I have shot with it, never mind rounds of trap and skeet. I retired from waterfowl hunting when the steel shot laws came in, my next dog was a Griff instead of a Chessie, and now it mostly chases pheasants, trap, and skeet. Swings like a dream; no screw-in chokes, so usually have to travel with a couple of alternate barrels. I shoot very well with it, and it tamed even the old 3" 1 7/8 oz goose loads.  The next... it seems I can barely hit anything with this 12 bore side by side. But it was my grandfather's that he purchased after coming home from WWI, then it went to my father, and now to me. So it has that family cachet - plus I like really old firearms. This is an N.R. Davis, the mighty Hy-Power grade, which buyers were assured was sudden death on ducks at 90 yards. I do get lucky with it once in a while...  Scan of some of the original documentation. Such a deal to get a new Hy-Power for only $35  Old shotguns are cool. |
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Post by BHP940 on Jul 14, 2017 21:34:01 GMT -5
My 'smith has a Browning Citori someone wants to sell for $1k. My son, back on leave, liked it so we now have a new addition to the family coming. |
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I certainly would cherish it....
