Ted: I'm going to be in Duluth in late July for a wedding. Any worthy spots to see or visit up in that neck of the woods?
Also, Mr. Fox: my Riffle book confirms your assessment of first year production of the 28-gauge M12s as 1937. Either I screwed up or there's a typo in the data I was looking at, as SN 746xxx IS 1937(and not 1936 as I had earlier surmised). From everything I been told here (and from what I've read online), if this gun doesn't have the angled channel in the receiver for the shell stop, it has been very creatively made-up. Next question: from what I now understand, some of the clones actually cycle better than the originals, making them far-more useful as shooters. If that's the case here, what is a nicely executed clone worth? Certainly not the $3,500 cited in the Bluebook but likely more than your average Plain Jane 20, right? I'm guessing that if you could pick up a decent copy for $1,500 or so, it wouldn't be a bad buy. Certainly worth that as a conversation piece IMHO.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 02/08/15 10:47 PM.
