76shuvlinoff
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I have a Wards Hercules 12 ga single shot (circa 1930s-40s?) with a 30" barrel and a very short stock in the back of my gun locker. When I was 12 in 1972 it was the first shotgun I ever fired and has been in the family longer than I have.
Although it has not been fired in years it still locks up tight. The butt plate has a big chunk out of it, the wood is chipped and has seen better days the metal is somewhat pitted and there is no bluing left on it.... at all.
Interestingly enough there is some kind of scuff inside the barrel at 19" and in the right light there is the ever so slightest bulge in the same spot.
If it was yours what would you do with it? Leave it be? Try to save it? Cut it to 18"?
- Mark
Although it has not been fired in years it still locks up tight. The butt plate has a big chunk out of it, the wood is chipped and has seen better days the metal is somewhat pitted and there is no bluing left on it.... at all.
Interestingly enough there is some kind of scuff inside the barrel at 19" and in the right light there is the ever so slightest bulge in the same spot.
If it was yours what would you do with it? Leave it be? Try to save it? Cut it to 18"?
- Mark