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And Dan Lefever
LC Smith - potentially deep and scary waters for me.
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ApacheCoTodd
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I've been aware of them for a very long time but am so used to people speaking in reverential tones and from time to time hearing scary numbers that I kinda put them up there with things like Stinson Reliant aircraft and real Shelby Mustangs: always out of reach and fairly replaceable on my budgetary levels if not authentic.
I guess it's like my Super-Citori-Posed - once I have one I get it.
I still wouldn't council buying one irresponsibly but keeping one's eyes open can pay off.
Here's my three "didn't see that coming" backed into long guns happily gathering dust.
Browning High Power .308 (small ring Mauser action)
Browning not really a Citori and not really a Superposed 12 Ga. (Gonna need help on that now)
The LC.
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Now here's a dumb questions that comes from a the intersection of curiosity and ignorance.
Would a 1907 LC Smith (Assuming you dated it correctly) have come with that big rubber butt pad? Seems to me that thick rubber pads were a product of the latter half of the 20th century. Might it have come with a steel buttplate originally, and if so, might it be a nice touch to find a period correct one (Numrich could help, perhaps) and restore it to original configuration.
On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong and they did come with thick rubber. I just don't know that much about older shotguns.
Would a 1907 LC Smith (Assuming you dated it correctly) have come with that big rubber butt pad? Seems to me that thick rubber pads were a product of the latter half of the 20th century. Might it have come with a steel buttplate originally, and if so, might it be a nice touch to find a period correct one (Numrich could help, perhaps) and restore it to original configuration.
On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong and they did come with thick rubber. I just don't know that much about older shotguns.
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The Elsie could easily of come with the pad it is wearing might even put the gun in a special order category which would up its value to collectors...I would defiantly get a letter on the gun to find out how it left the factory .....
Could your Browning be the Leige model??? not a Japan made Citori, not a Superposed, but still made in Belgium...
The Elsie could easily of come with the pad it is wearing might even put the gun in a special order category which would up its value to collectors...I would defiantly get a letter on the gun to find out how it left the factory .....
Could your Browning be the Leige model??? not a Japan made Citori, not a Superposed, but still made in Belgium...
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I thought: "Wait a minute... Rubber?" As well, when I saw it but then read GUNNUT's earlier post and happily left it alone.
I found this while doing some background for my Wife's antique business. Interestingly, though I'm sure without connection, one of the attorney's names was Choate.:
http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber.htm
This is a very primitive form of rubber on the LC.
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I won't be messing with the pad at all after your earlier heads-up. If you ever run across a photo of the leather covering that you mentioned, I'd appreciate a link.
Oh yeah, I printed out the membership form for the LC Smith Collectors organization last night. Going to buy "the" tool and a letter as well.
The Browning? I keep getting mildly directed towards that "Leige" scenario but never find any real facts to ground it in. Rather, I get there by excluding the other situations.
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Had one very similar about 15 years ago, but had double triggers, and a bit of rust pits just forward of the receiver on the base of the barrels. Mine was made in the 1920's. Unfortunately or fortunately which ever the case may be, I traded it over for a 1873 Winchester, that had been refurbished.
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Re. the picture...
I hope you keep those in a good gun safe when you aren't home to look after them ... none of those are exactly wallhangers.
I hope you keep those in a good gun safe when you aren't home to look after them ... none of those are exactly wallhangers.
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Well, lets see, I have a poopy '73 that wouldn't go much backwards for being refinished and if someone were to say: "It's the LC or the '73!"... I gotta go '73.
'73 are pretty much universally iconic while the LC is a lovely and significant piece of American firearms manufacturing it is a bit too scary to use much and while I'm lovin' it, it wasn't sought after my entire gun lovin' life like the '73 was.
Fred Fuller - It has a nice snug, no-tip, no-lean place in the corner of the safe where the Brownings go. Nice little desiccant thingee to keep it happy. Fortunately here all we generally have to worry about are thieves, dust, and mis-handling... Not necessarily in that order.
I love looking at them up opposite the entrance to the room.
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