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< 16ga. Guns Wanted or For Sale ~ Looks like a Sweet, not mine |
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Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:21 pm
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:44 am
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AFAIK, the Sweet was always chambered for 2-3/4" shells. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:26 am
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If you were to insist it's not a Sweet unless it's marked as such on the receiver, you would be correct. Those made prior to the marking could be called lightweights and most people would understand. |
_________________ Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:57 am
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It's a 1935 shotgun and the Sweet wasn't introduced until 1937. Still a killer deal. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:46 am
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the serial number chart shows s/n 108729 to be a 1937 which is the first year of the sweet. 1937 s / n show to be 105850 to 111000. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:55 am
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I forgot to say 1937 was first year of actual release but 1936 was the release to a test market. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:58 am
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Is it me, or does that forearm look kinda short? |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:10 pm
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This is why short chambered 16s are so fun...terrific deals to be found on great guns like this one. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:40 pm
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16'er wrote: |
Is it me, or does that forearm look kinda short?
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Looks kinda short to me too. I wonder if it is a three-shot model? There were three-shot sweets and regular 16s made before WWII. |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:19 pm
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Flues16 wrote: |
16'er wrote: |
Is it me, or does that forearm look kinda short?
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Looks kinda short to me too. I wonder if it is a three-shot model? There were three-shot sweets and regular 16s made before WWII.
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Three shot lightweight is the A-5 unicorn.. I've never seen one in person, but have read that a limited few were indeed produced.
(If you had a euro model with a straight stock, It would be the rainbow-coated unicorn, I guess...? I sold all the A-5's I owned, but a three-shot unmarked sweet sixteen with an english grip would be too much to pass up!) |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:33 pm
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Flues15 wrote:
Three shot lightweight is the A-5 unicorn.. I've never seen one in person, but have read that a limited few were indeed produced.
(If you had a euro model with a straight stock, It would be the rainbow-coated unicorn, I guess...? I sold all the A-5's I owned, but a three-shot unmarked sweet sixteen with an english grip would be too much to pass up!)
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:05 pm
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Sure would like to see the choke markings on that barrel...... |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:42 pm
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Bronzebow wrote: |
the serial number chart shows s/n 108729 to be a 1937 which is the first year of the sweet. 1937 s / n show to be 105850 to 111000.
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My error. I transposed the numbers incorrectly. |
_________________ "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still." |
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Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:53 pm
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Another unicorn went off bid yesterday, it had a choke device and a pad added, looks like it was a pretty neglected or maybe just worn unicorn. Cracked forearm and a solid rib, but not very expensive either.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/796902909 |
_________________ Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern |
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Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:53 am
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Looking at the amount of barrel extension showing and the front of the chamber cut out, it looks like it may have had the chamber lengthened. |
_________________ "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still." |
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