Pete,
Thanks for the response. The gun is in Sioux Falls,S.D., I'm in Colorado Springs, so a photo will be a little time in coming. You might be disappointed, as I said, we had the gun completely redone several years ago. Put the gun back on face, restocked, reblued and recasehardened so she's not even close to original. Oh, and Bill opened up the right barrel to light modified. On the plus side, that ol' Meriden has killed more geese, ducks, pheasants and grouse than I could count, and the numbers keep rising. It is Bill's "go to" gun for most anything flying in S.D. After 90 years of shooting whatever Federal was selling I've finally gotten Bill to take it easy on the gun and shoot low pressure handloads I supply him with. He shot, and still shoots steel and tunsten matrix with no adverse effects. He stays with the smaller shot sizes, no larger than #1's, mostly 3's.
I own a couple 100 yr. old guns and always wish they could talk and tell me a little about their lives. You've spoken for the ol' girl and we know a bit more about her history, thanks!
Steve
ps, I like Colorado Springs, too. A suprisingly good upland and waterfowl area plus within a day's drive of some awesome hunting!
