Lagopus,
I'm interested to know what you think about the "long cone" article...this gun is clearly a live bird or pidgeon gun yet it doesn't conform to standard barrel dimensions or weight limtattions (weighs 8 pounds 10 ounces)...
I'm hoping that you will be the "voice of reason" ...clearly this shotgun is bored with Cashmore's "long cone" dimensions yet was stamped 13/1...
The gun is clearly a live bird gun but weighs over 8 pounds...
Chances are that other live bird Cashmore shotguns of that period have the long cone boring, but the other owners won't dare say because of the known temperment of the members who use this system...
Your opinion may be vital to the overall understanding at this bulletin system...here's an example...
10 years ago or so, when I openly told some kid that "LLH" on his Ithaca was the touchmark of the Belgian supplier of barrels that Ithaca often used, this bullitin system went completely apeshit and roasted me like I was some anti-American muck raker...Now of course it's beyond common knowledge, but after the witch hunt where I was burned at the stake, members started looking at the barrels of their American made guns a little closer...many members had known all along that most barrels were imported but wouldn't speak out in my defense...this gave rise to such rediculous posts that I couldn't stomach to even read them...members were saying, with conviction, that they had Lefever's made in Belgium on Lefever patents and other nonsense that would make your head swim...
My point is...that we must acknowledge when evidence and published information prevail...if not, before you know it there may be posts about John Dickson sub-contracting T Barkers and Crescent shotguns and Kornbrath engraving on Mossburg 500's
Please acknowledge...one way or the other
