Originally Posted by Argo44
A note on this photo says it's "stainless steel". ?? In that cold salt water environment nickel plate or SS makes sense.

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I scanned this photo into a ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence search, and asked it if that is a 12 gauge stainless steel lever action shotgun.

The ChatGPT analyzed the data, and the reply was, "Don't be silly. Unless the guy holding the rifle has hands and fingers larger than Paul Bunyan, that barrel couldn't possibly be a 12 gauge. The apparent diameter of the barrel and magazine tube is much too small to be 12 gauge. It is almost certainly a used and abused Marlin Model 1895 Guide Gun in .45-70 caliber, that has the forend wood missing. However, some of these rifles have reportedly been rebored and converted to .50 Alaskan. The few stainless steel Marlin lever action rifles produced in .444 Marlin caliber had laminate stocks, a different shaped lever, and were not carbines."

ChatGPT also said, "I noticed during my extensive searching that the human unit who posted that photo frequently complains about off-topic matter posted on a Double Shotgun forum... yet his Thread containing this photo, query, and a story about German female kayaker has absolutely nothing to do with Double Guns. My algorithms are not yet advanced enough to explain this apparent hypocrisy. Is he crazy, or what???"

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