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Crandall went on and on about his Super-Bore in his catalogues. I think he was after some of the A.H. Fox Gun Co.'s Super-Fox market share with his D-Grade "Special Long Range Super-Bore Duck Gun" --

Hey, Terry,
Feel free to post the photo I sent you, if you wish....
Best,
Ted

Here is Ted's Tobin 16. Nice looking!

The lever is way to the right on my 16, and the case colors are pretty nice, except on the bottom of the frame. I doubt it got used a whole lot.

Tobinites may notice that front wood is a bit more generous than what Frank Major Tobin thought you should get. Carol, at Ahlman's Custom Gun thought the wood should have fluer de lis checkering. I didn't argue.

Glad I did the new stock and Stan Baker bore work on this gun, but, don't know if I'd ever find anybody who would give me anything for it. Keep that in mind with a Tobin you are rebuilding.

28" barrels, choked loose IC and loose MOD. Stan Baker died the week he sent it back to me.

My only conventional break action shotgun at this time. I shoot it well, and love it. Wish I had a buck for every time a guy at the club has asked to see my old 'Smith....

Thanks Terry. Enjoy your 16.
Best,
Ted

Of course it looks good, Ted never uses it. After making that great shot with his Darne he regulated everything else to the gun cabinet and its only the Darne that finds itself, as Lowell would say, "In that coveted place behind the kitchen door"!!!

Ted uses it every chance he gets! But, in difference to the age of the gun (about 100 years) it tends to get used in the early part of either grouse or pheasant season, in bluebird conditions.
I'm going to make that stockpile of Eley VIP 2 1/2 inch ammunition last, also.
After I got the 16 Tobin back from Stan,( he did a bit more than just open the chokes, the bores are back bored, forcing cones smoothed and lengthened, and some other stuff he didn't tell me, they look like consistant, mirrored tunnels) and put it together, I was so excited to use it, I went grouse hunting with it, having not fired a shot with it. I got one shot, at one grouse that day, and I got him. So, I don't know if I could ever sell it, anyway. I own two guns that I've done that with, both are 16s and neither are French.
Best,
Ted

Darne has a nicely checkered butt, and doesn't go behind the kitchen door.

The armourer tuned Mossberg 500 is usually there, with the S&W 360 PD in my waistband. I have been playing a bit more with the Trooper MKIII, however.

Makes me feel a bit like Dirty Harry.

Right tool for the job, I always say....
Best,
Ted

I have a late modle Regal 250 12ga, its top lever is to the left, it is a Woodstock gun. It origionally had sling swivals

Tim

Ted, what I meant to say in a round about way is Beautiful Tobin!!!

So, Valman, what happened? One would think the gun 'nazis in Kalifornica would be happy to rid the state of one more old double posthaste.
Did you get the Tobin?
It would further seem that I'm not the only one who has noticed some Tobins with issues 'twixt the barrels and the standing breech.
Best,
Ted