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Hello All

L.C. Smith 10 gauge Grade 2 Syracuse Hammerless made ??

It has been very difficult to get data on this hammerless made late in the Syracuse days.

I'm going to try my "lion" gun for the first time this year, a 12ga belgian guild choked m/f, using Kent TM 1 1/8oz. 5's over decoys.

Jerry: I know what you mean about "alternative" dogs. I married the girl who came along with a half-Irish Irish Irish Water Spaniel. I'd really get some looks when we showed up in the field. I told them he was a Standard Poodle and most believed me. Anyway, they shut up pretty quick when they saw him go to work.

For duck guns, I've got a 10#4oz Lefever G 10-bore with 32-in damascus barrels ... no "wand," as they say, but man, will it whack those high-flyers! When I'm going easier on myself, I take a 1956 Model 12 Duck gun, one of the last made with a solid rib, or a 1961 A-5 Magnum with a spare Hastings barrel for steel shot.

By the way, I really enjoy putting faces with names (what a bunch of geezers we are!), and seeing all these pretty guns. Happy hunting. TT



P.S. This is my Sweet Sixteen, built the year I was born, and loaded with Bismuth. A change of pace for decoying ducks. Not all of these birds were mine, but my buddy wanted an impressive looking bag.

In recent years it has been one of following three Husqvarnas. A M51 16 bore with 75cm barrels, half and full chokes, a M34 16 bore with 80 cm barrels, cylinder and full, or a M48 12 gauge with 75 cm, full and full barrels. All hammer guns. Ammo for 16 has been #6 or #5 bismuth handloads with 28 grams shot at about 1250 fps and some factory 16X67 bismuth loads with 28 grams #6. For 12X65 it has been factory 12X67, 28 grams #5 bismuth at 1300 fps.

Hunting where I go was terriffic some years ago but in recent years the South Platte has become so overgrown with brush and small trees that ducks and geese find little to attract them. About time to find somewhere else to hunt.

Niklas

A new to me Model 21 Duck is going to the field this year in addition to another Model 21 and an RBL.

Favorite picture of the RBL and an Aleutian Teal from last season.

Nine times out of ten I'll have my Maxus with me but at least twice a year I take out the Winchester model 50 that my Grandfather left me and my Flues model Ithaca. I sure wish that Hevi-Shot Classic Doubles ammo didn't cost so much. I'd use those guns a whole lot more if it was cheaper to feed 'em.

A couple of proven performers :
D grade Parker 10 g with 30 & 32" barrels


Lindner Daly 10 g


and a new one this year: Garbi 3" 12 bore heavy proof!


All will be fed bismuth # 4s and maybe try some of BPs new shot made for the old guns.
best regards,
JBP

absence of winchester m21 users is thunderous!

There is at least one out there.

Gentlemen,
And you too HoJo!
I'm selling a 1936-37 vintage Nitro Special with beautiful original case colors, 30" barrels choked .050/.025 (yes! .050!) I'm not a duck hunter, but this gun would look really fine in someone elses duck blind. I put an ad in the doubleguns for sale section of this website on August 4th. Check it out!
Email me at steve_thornhill@hotmail.com and I'll email photos.
Steve