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...and whoever heard of the deluxe field grades anyways.
What about the smallbore field guns, did dust bowl farmer Brown pick thru his guncabinet for his uppity little quail gun.
Don't think so!
No need for the bigger 10g., and no need for the puny 410 - If we're talking about working field grades.
The 12gauge gun, could only be the real field grade.
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Well, my Fulton is a "field" grade and it's 20ga, My two Fox SW's are 16ga, my two Nitro Specials are 410, one LC Field is a 20g converted to 28ga., a very old singleshot H&R I have is 16ga. From each of their condition, I'd say they were all working guns. So, no.
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Field guns are do everything guns, and that mostly likely is the 12ga.
Sorta like the English gamegun is a 12b.
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You're going to worry this bone to death if we don't bury it. 1) How many gun catalogs of any period have you seen in which the words "field grade" are actually used? Perhaps there's a latterday effort to distinguish field from target use (a Superposed "field" as described by Schwing can be as high-grade as they come in terms of wood and decoration), but generally I'd consider "field grade" a convention of convenience to differentiate entry level guns with few frills. 2) Why do you think, as you've previously stated elsewhen, that a Fox S/W was a "farmer's gun"? You could have attended a million farm auctions and estate sales in the midwest of the 50's and 60's and picked up break-open single shots by the boxcar load, most of them three or four decades old, but very few doubles. Farmers, if not dedicated upland hunters in the modern privileged mode, needed only a utility gun and bought accordingly. 3) Why would not a ten or eight gauge be a "working" gun if you're standing in two feet of water? 4) You win on the .410; what of the 16 and 20? 4) Are you really talking about a GP do-it-all gauge and confusing the issue with talk of stratified levels of decoration and price commensurate? I think so.
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Obviously the Fox Sterlingworth buyers saw things your way with over twice as many 12-gauges sold as 16- and 20-gauges combined.
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I think the .410 was considered more or less a youth gun. It was my first gun at age 10.
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The 12gauge gun, could only be the real field grade.
hmmmmmmmmm. My Ithaca NID 20 ga says on top of (I think) the right bbl "New Ithaca Field Grade". I dunno Lowell. 
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was that a farmer yout or a field yout?
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Lowell, you will not catch me in the field with a 12 gauge! It will be 16 gauge or smaller and maybe field grade sometimes and maybe not! Bobby
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