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< 16ga. Guns Wanted or For Sale ~ here's something you don't see everyday |
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:21 pm
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:27 pm
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hey buddy, the link came up as some sort of error message....what was the gun?
Duncan
(I know, I'm s'posed to be snapping 8 x 10 glossies of the sterly for you, right? I shouldn't be piddlin' around online....) |
_________________ "Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:42 pm
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Joined: 06 Jul 2006
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Midland - Boxlock Non-Ejector
$2,650.00
16 ga, 2 3/4" chambers, double trigger, straight grip, splinter forend, Weight 6 lbs, 0 ozs |
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:16 pm
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Britgun: I was hopin you's see that, kind of - you rascal!
I saw it first dangit! No seriously, as your tag name implies I wanted you to see it for guidance. i've heard Midlands are good and this gun is light-light-light!! 30' tubes and only 6LBS? Wowza!! Opinion please Brit. |
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:47 pm
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jig wrote: |
Britgun: I was hopin you's see that, kind of - you rascal!
I saw it first dangit! No seriously, as your tag name implies I wanted you to see it for guidance. i've heard Midlands are good and this gun is light-light-light!! 30' tubes and only 6LBS? Wowza!! Opinion please Brit.
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Guess what? I imported that gun (it should have my little H R & G stamp on there someplace, maybe the flats...), had it reproofed (I'm pretty sure), and refinished the wood myself. It is a really really nice gun. I ALMOST kept that one for myself, but sold it off (this must have been in '98 or '99), then it came back to me in a trade with that black pad on it, almost kept it AGAIN, then I sold it again, now that guy must have traded it on something at G and H? It has just killer wood. When I got it, that stock looked almost BLACK, you could barely see any figure at all, it was so oily and old, and I stripped it down myself to what you see there. The thing handles really really well, very well balanced, long and light, carries light, but swings like a heavier gun because of the barrels....I remember that one as well as any I had, probably because I worked on it (rare for a sales/marketing dude)....I did a kajillion coats HAND RUBBED linseed on that thing......Midland made a lot of middle of the road, "game keeper" type guns, but this baby was unique in fit and finish. I even had a Midland catalogue showing that particular model, but cannot remember the model name, it was a bit higher end for them.... I wonder if the catalogue followed the gun around because I sent the catalogue along with the gun for the heck of it, as I recall.... yes, that is a unique and very nice gun. You would love it, I promise. One thing I really like, quite rare on an English gun, but common on French guns, is the swamp rib, sunken down into the barrels...
What a sweetheart of a gun....no foolin'...
Duncan |
_________________ "Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:08 am
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I remember the model name: The Zephyr....
Also, it had a few marks in the bbls (outside, but blued over) that didn't buff out all the way when it was being "re-blacked" (them dudes say "blacked" not "blued"), but strictly cosmetic thing, and not offensive...as I recall, they were up towards the breech...
...seriously, whoever winds up with this gun would be thrilled with it's handling, and it is really beautiful....never saw one like it in any gauge in 5 years of handling and looking over thousands of English shotguns..... I'd say I'd handle 15-20 guns for every one I bought, and I sold roughly 100 guns a year.....
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_________________ "Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:45 am
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There's a thread over on SSM that Pete Magas put a deposit down on this one. |
_________________ I feel a warm spot in my heart when I meet a man whiling away an afternoon...and stopping to chat with him, hear the sleek lines of his double gun whisper "Sixteen." - Gene Hill, Shotgunner's Notebook |
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:57 am
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Brit - when a gun continually enters your life and you continually praise said gun AND you're currently on a buying spree...
Why FFS (feerfooksake - all one word) haven't you kept/bid on this thing?
respectfully but curious,
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:11 am
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sprocket wrote: |
Brit - when a gun continually enters your life and you continually praise said gun AND you're currently on a buying spree...
Why FFS (feerfooksake - all one word) haven't you kept/bid on this thing?
respectfully but curious,
Sprocket
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Excellent question that I really don't have a concrete answer for, Sprock, I guess when I sold out, a chapter titled "English shotguns" closed.... and I never could find a gun in all those brit guns that filled the bill like my Frenchie that I go on and on about all the time, and it was because of the Frenchie that I let the Zephyr go..... my tastes have changed: field grade looking guns, no engraving, functional, utilitarian, it's crazy, but that's what happened... I'm just kind of flowing with it....and after this last little fiasco with the 21, my buying spree is on sabbatical....I need to test drive what I have already acquired..... I'm locked on the Yank classics.... it's like a trout locked on No. 18 pale evening duns that won't touch a single other pattern, when a day or two before, you could have hooked him with a number 6 stimulator. It must be some sort of latent salmonid behaviour..... |
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:14 am
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yeah - I get it now. Thanks
Oh and thanks for rubbing salt in the wound - I could be on the way to Lee's Ferry right now. - RIGHT NOW!
But no - here I sit and for what? I don't know either... |
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:26 am
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sprocket wrote: |
yeah - I get it now. Thanks
Oh and thanks for rubbing salt in the wound - I could be on the way to Lee's Ferry right now. - RIGHT NOW!
But no - here I sit and for what? I don't know either...
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It's only 1:30 PM back there....there's still time..... |
_________________ "Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
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Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:06 am
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That Midland arrived today. I put it on a postal scale. 5.82 lbs. I love it. It's nice to have a little history on it after it arrived in the U.S. Mr. Hill, thanks for all the elbow grease on the stock. I will cherish this gun and lord willing, it will be in the grouse woods of the U.P. in the fall. |
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Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:21 pm
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Good luck with that gun - I wouldve had it, but they wouldnt except a 3500.00 gun on trade as (at least the story line went) the gun was a consignment gun. So you did get a very special gun in more ways than one. Guess you could almost say that it's worth about a grand more than you paid. Actually, that gun is priceless in that it has a history promulgated by my dear friend Duncan, or Britgun as he is affectionately know round here.
Gun seems a bit long barreled for a grouse gun . let me know if it doesnt work out for you. |
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Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:03 am
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Pete - that Brit 18 us liable to upset those French Guns you have |
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