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My 20ga LC Smith field model surprised me when I measured the barrels to be only 25 1/2inches. The gun points well but is too light at under 5 1/2 lbs for a lot of skeet shooting but it is great to carry in the field for quail and pheasants. I do well for an occasional round of sporting clays with it as well. The chokes measured out to be .006 in the tight barrel and .018 in the left.
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Slipped my mind, but forgot to mention another 25" gun I have; a William Ford 20 bar action sidelock, mfg. 1937, 15 1/4" LOP straight grip/ splinter, checkered butt, hidden third fastener, DT, made and proofed in Birmingham in 06/37 for 2 3/4" 1 ounce loads, has 25" barrels with Churchill rib choked IC/ Mod, fully engraved with Holland style deep scroll pattern, wgt. 5lbs., 10.5 ozs. A veritable wand that won't wear you by the end of a day afield. Probably built for a American customer.
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Slipped my mind, but forgot to mention another 25" gun I have; a William Ford 20 bar action sidelock, mfg. 1937, 15 1/4" LOP straight grip/ splinter, checkered butt, hidden third fastener, DT, made and proofed in Birmingham in 06/37 for 2 3/4" 1 ounce loads, has 25" barrels with Churchill rib choked IC/ Mod, fully engraved with Holland style deep scroll pattern, wgt. 5lbs., 10.5 ozs. A veritable wand that won't wear you by the end of a day afield. Probably built for a American customer. That sounds like a wonderful gun to me. Can you post some photos of it?
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/ ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Brent, I'd love to, but I have never been able to figure out how to do that on this website. It always ends up fouled up.
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Brent, I'd love to, but I have never been able to figure out how to do that on this website. It always ends up fouled up. Send them to me, and I'll post them. I'd really like to see this gun. I have wanted to try a Churchill style of shotgun for a while now.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/
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Last edited by BrentD, Prof; 10/23/23 10:24 AM.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/
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25" 12ga Bernardelli 5lb 15 oz with an ounce of 6's(B&P High Pheasant). It is one of my favorite upland shotguns. ![[Linked Image from imagizer.imageshack.com]](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/UpN2qD.jpg)
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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Beautiful gun!! Thanks for posting!!
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25" 12ga Bernardelli 5lb 15 oz with an ounce of 6's(B&P High Pheasant). It is one of my favorite upland shotguns. My brother has that exact same gun that I found for him at Ron Peterson's years ago. He has used it on a little of everything in the uplands with great success.
Perry M. Kissam
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