Shotgun picture thread.

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I am an absolutely dreadful shotgunner, so have been missing out on this thread, but I do have a soft spot for the guns despite my utter lack of ability with them.

Here is my Taylor's "Wyatt Earp", because I simply could not live without a short hammer double.

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I can't hit aerial targets with it any better than I can with any other shotgun I've ever tried - and the tang safety is utterly silly - but it knocks tin cans off the fence post just fine, and the clouds of blackpowder smoke more than make up for the bruised shoulder!
 
ApacheCoTodd said:
Trench, Aerial Gunnery and Riot; Stevens, Remington and Winchester with an old Ranch-Riot '97 underneath.
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Winchester 97, Browning anomaly, L.C. Smith.
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Todd.
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Like your display racks, great idea.
 
When I got hired at my first LE agency in 1993 (a suburban municipal PD) they had two of these in the back of the armory, left over from when they issued them. They had switched to 1100's several years before I got hired...I never heard of what happened to those Model 10's, just noticed that they weren't in the armory one day.


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My High Standard Model 10B. I own the proper Kel-Lite and the adapter plate to go between the light and the receiver, but still have to drill a hole in the light body and tap for threads.

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Maverick 88 with an ATI Strikeforce forend, UTG 590 Optic Mount w/ 4 round side saddle, Bushnell TRS-25, Limbsaver recoil pad. I don't generally like the tacticool look but I couldn't help myself, plus I didn't want to drill and tap the receiver to mount an optic be it a red dot or scope. To return it to its stock configuration I only have to remove/replace 5 screws/bolts and the forend. Nothing is permanent.
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A couple of years ago I went to a convention that Bruce Campbell was going to be one of the special guests. For those that don't know, Campbell was the lead in the campy horror movie series "Evil Dead", which includes the film "Army of Darkness". In Army of Darkness, he refers to his shotgun as his "BOOMSTICK" and proceeds to tell the "primitive screwheads" incorrectly that it is a 12 gauge double barreled Remington, but all info shows that it is actually a Stoeger Coach Gun. In preparation of going to the convention, I ordered a Coach Gun, took the stock off and during the event, had Bruce Campbell sign it.

For those that don't know,

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And with the Necronomicon pillows.

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My grandfather's Winchester Model 97 12 gauge shotgun that was manufactured in 1956. I acquired it when he moved to an assisted living facility. So I had it since the late 1970s.
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aaaaa said:
My grandfather's Winchester Model 97 12 gauge shotgun that was purchased somewhere about the 1930s I acquired it when he passed away in his 90s. If anyone can tell from the picture what year or year range it is, I would appreciate it. I am guessing 1930s based on my father was still living there when they bought the gun.
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You should be able to type in the serial number here and it will tell you, https://oldguns.net/sn_php/windateslookup.php?file=win1897.dat
 
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An old Beretta 426E 12 ga. *("I spent a stupid amount of time, and took several rounds of ibuprofen trying to decipher Beretta's 'system' of marking their older shotguns, and THIS is the best I can figure. So please, if there's old Beretta SXS experts out there, I'd be way more than happy to learn something.")

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An old Marlin Model 19-S 12 ga. I just refinished.

Here's a couple of my more 'interesting' shot guns I've acquired over this past year coming back into this hobby.
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aaaaa said:
Well it goes to show how mistaken one can be. The gun checks out to,
"The year of manufacture for serial number 1012302 is 1956."
Going to fix it in the above post if I can still edit.
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Glad that worked out for you, at least now you know for sure.

Here's my 1927 from what it looked like when I received it, to the conversion and refinish. Originally there was so much slop and it was in such bad shape, I wasn't sure what to do with it.

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^ That is a beauty. Definitely looks different than my newer one. A buddy had the same gun as mine but with a cooling rib along the top of the barrel. That second gun (last two photos) looks interesting.
 
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Cokeman said:
That site shows my Model 12 was made in 1926. All other sites show 1927.
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Very odd, maybe a file they use in their search engine has a number transposed, all other searches for my 1897 serial numbers show the same as the link I sent. I don't own the site or anything, I have just used it in the past and it was accurate for me.

The search engine looks to be for 1897s though.
 
You select your model on the page before that and then enter the serial number.
 
Cokeman said:
You select your model on the page before that and then enter the serial number.
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I was not aware, thank you again for the heads up that the info may not be 100%.

Like I said before, it isn't my data, and everything I looked up seemed to be accurate.
 
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