I called Buck first on this one due to the large bore size when it arrived, it had .750 bores tapered all the way down the barrel which alarmed me. He explained tooling back then and dean confirmed probably started out around .745.
I set out to find one of these a year or so ago and found 2 online in same night, other one had cut barrels from what I could gather.
This one fits me really well, I keep the ones that fit.
Problem is most effective bismuth loads use slower powders and I don’t know the pressure curve down the barrel. I trust the first 6” of this old girl but few pits past that in one side.
I have some 1ounce bismuth loads i can use faster powders in and will probably have to limit it to those.
But wow what a fun dove and barn pigeon gun.
