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This one's been in the project-rack for years.

Hopkins & Allen Forehand 12.

It's missing the hinge-pin lever, another pin was formerly a drill bit, fence-wire is the stock's salvation and the springs barely remember their old glory. One sympathizes.;)

Sat behind the back door of the cabin for time immemorial. Always a couple rounds of 3 or 4 Buck and some bird or BB on the hat rack. Grab it, throw a roll of TP on the barrel and grab a lantern or flashlight for dusk & later trips to the thunder-box down by the lake. Stink-closets being magnets to all sorts of unwelcome critters.

Also, more than a few rabbits went cold... then hot & tasty behind one of us encountering them on the way to the crapper.

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Todd.
 
Looking for a photo of my Stevens .22 shotgun, I realized I had not put it up here yet:

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gobsauce said:
I'm seeing a lot of pump, singles, and SxS and O/U.

Very few of these:

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It's a JC Higgins 583-16. It's my only shotgun, nothing fancy. Got it at the pawn shop for 110 OTD.
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I had one of these except mine was a Sears&Roebuck model. Think they were made by Stevens. Mine was a 410 ga.
Gave it to my younger brother when I left for the Army in 67. He still has it as far as I know. Action worked great as long
as you were deliberate and made sure you gave it a full stroke. Choke was Full and it was a dang good Squirrel gun.
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omega5 said:
I had one of these except mine was a Sears&Roebuck model. Think they were made by Stevens. Mine was a 410 ga.
Gave it to my younger brother when I left for the Army in 67. He still has it as far as I know. Action worked great as long
as you were deliberate and made sure you gave it a full stroke. Choke was Full and it was a dang good Squirrel gun.
Dano
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Mines in 12 gauge with a full choke. My buddy bought one like yours ,but with a modified choke.
 
gobsauce said:
I'm seeing a lot of pump, singles, and SxS and O/U.

Very few of these:
It's a JC Higgins 583-16. It's my only shotgun, nothing fancy. Got it at the pawn shop for 110 OTD.
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I just had one of those in my hands a few weeks ago. My girlfriend's father has one. His is a 16 gauge. The 12s were recalled. If yours is indeed a 12, I wouldn't fire it. Believe they were made by High-Standard.
 
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gobsauce said:
Mines in 12 gauge with a full choke. My buddy bought one like yours ,but with a modified choke.
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Uncle had a (I believe) Mossberg Goose gun. Bolt action 12ga with a 36 inch barrel. Like my 410, bolt required
deliberate full stroke action but would work every time if you did. Lot of folks had them and berated them for
the action. Didn't understand that you couldn't work the action like a rifle. If I ever run across another like the
one I had, I'd be sorely tempted to get it.
Dano
 
Stevie-Ray said:
I just had one of those in my hands a few weeks ago. My girlfriend's father has one. His is a 16 gauge. The 12s were recalled. If yours is indeed a 12, I wouldn't fire it. Believe they were made by High-Standard.
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It indeed is a 12 gauge. I'm not too worried about the recall as I don't shoot hot rounds anyways. Since I'm not much of a shotgunner, all I have is bulk ammo that's about 1200 fps, relatively light loads.

The recall is about the receiver cracking under pressure, I'd imagine winchester Super X and Magnums would obliterate it.
 
ApacheCoTodd said:
This one got an unfair showing above. I took a whole week after I retired from the Army to drive from Tombstone, Az to Flagstaff dedicating the entire drive to dirt. Ended up using something like 11 miles on asphalt the whole way. One of the amazing places I found while following the San Pedro River was an old, no screwin' 'round trading post with its own dirt air strip beside it.

Inside, while digging the vibe of the place, I noticed a sad and ill-attentioned shotgun over the *bar*. When I asked about it they said it was "... jes for lookin' at..." but were happy to show it to me.

I fell instantly in love with it. Plumb-colored steel, the stock was cracked at the grip, the sear had not been searin' lately and the rust was just enough to be scaring off the straights.

After whiling much of the afternoon away (imagine - RC colas and moon-pies in Arizona!), cracking wise and letting my Rottweiler's charms do their work I asked if they cared to part with it and since I had the good sense to be sociable rather than carpet-baggery they said why-not with warnings as to its sad state of being.

Here now, I wasn't scared of ghosty tales (yup; J.J.) and dire predictions surrounding the ultimate condition of all well-shot '97s. I had resurrected several for CAS friends to keep them from buying ChiCom knock-offs in the past. As far as the stock was concerned, I have a weird affinity for brass pin/screws and sinew in the case of wandering cracks.

In the end, this 1911 '97 which was once a *Full Choke* hunter, knocked down in the distant past to a Ranch-Riot, has become one of my all time favorite guns of any platform.


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That's a shotgun right there.
 
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