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ditto on the DO NOT SAND.

Remove the old finish with paint/varnish remover. Most likly a gun that old had a varnish finish, not the modern 'plastic' finish that can resist some solvents.

Iron o ...

Have two DeHaan (Huglu) shotguns, U2 (16ga O/U) and a 28 ga custom SxS, the 16 has a 3 inch chamber so stated in DeHaan's liturature due to the way the barrel manufacturing machinery is set up. Due no ...

Have my dad's MW Mod 50 Delux he purchased around 1930, a Stevens model 620 (updated model 520) 12 gauge. Had a 28 inch full choke barrel and I wanted something more open.

Purchase a 28 inch modifi ...

71 years young, can still chase chukar up the rim rocks South Fork John Day River. Enjoy lots of duck hunting, flushing grouse, trout on cane rods, and flying---on my way for another class three fligh ...

Have a few boxes in 1 1/8oz #6 & 7 1/2, consider them too valuable to shoot (first of the really good 'plastic' loads). Displayed on a shelf along with pictures of my dad duck hunting in the days ...

Have a 311A 16 gauge, basicly same gun. Shoot steel (#3,4) and HeviShot (#5,6) in mine, modified and full choke.

Reload using BP's 16ga Multi Metal and BP12-Tuff (over 16ga nitro card) wads. Wads p ...

Have my dad's old Western Field Delux Model 50, (Stevens model 620 sold by Wards). 1929 vintage. Was his only shotgun from, 1930 through the '60s, harvested many many duck, a few grouse and one deer. ...

Fiocchi hulls.
Have and continue to reload lots of them in 16 gauge. Note on the primers, Fiocchi primers are slightly larger in diameter than US makes, I find that only the Win 209 stays in; makes ...

Would be very cautious with steel or HEVI-SHOT in a 28 gauge without tough wads. BPs 2nd Edition 28 gauge does give loads for both steel and HEVI-SHOT using their HV28 wad+Mylar coiled inside for bor ...

Check out 'shotgunworld' site, forums on CZ, DeHaan, etc. Turkish guns. Reviews all over the spectum. Have Two imported by DeHaan, 16 O/U and a custom 28 SxS, Excellent guns.

I have worked up 16 gauge loads for brass hulls:
A .070 12 ga nitro card over powder, 3/8 16ga filler wad, BP-12 wad (4 slits to base) with two 1/4" 20ga cork wads inside, one ounce shot, one . ...

Nothing wrong with it, does that by design, recoil trips the lock-up.

When dad passed away older brother saw to it that the will was followed: Mother was was the sole heir. Only minor squack I has was that mother gave away most of his handcarved decoys that I thought sh ...

Too me vintage clothing ment WW II gear. Even hunting pictures of Ted Trueblood (Field and Stream I thing) showed him in army issue, right down to the combat boots with the upper leather wrap secured ...

Lock that day away in your memory bank, great adventure, thanks for sharing it.