Thanks Ted, yeah...not the 2-inch.
Dr. Drew:
I still can't believe I have so destroyed this gun. If I had shifted my use to the left barrel (to avoid the pierced primers) I might have wholly avoided this disaster.
I tend to think of these older Smiths as huge and heavy and I forget all the fragility that time builds into these things after 136 years...
I got so caught up in the sequence of 5 guys shooting trap (& it was crushing the clays so shockingly well!) that I didn't want to interrupt that rythym so... I was forcing the gun to keep functioning.
Such a waste.
To answer your questions...no evidence of any instability in this stock until that ulitmate failure. Yeah..that top strap separated completely behind the safety...I clearly don't know my own strength, sadly.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 07/31/26 12:43 AM.
