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< 16ga. Guns ~ Perplexed |
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:23 pm
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Hey 16GG. I'm still perplexed So how DO you hold the stock of the Citori/Verona/Huglu/et al with the funny 8 brls so it shoots like it's supposed to (oo)?!? |
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:38 pm
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Wo what's up with those Fox Sterlingworth's? There are 32 of them listed on GunsAmerica (I think some are double listed) and 14 of them are 16 ga.! Also, what's a "fluid compressed steel barrel"?
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:18 pm
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I just picked up a Marlin 90 in 16 ga. O/U. Bought it because I liked my Dad's old Marlin (J.C.Higgins) 90 in 12ga O/U. this gun is built on a 20 ga frame so it is fairly small and light. Have only test fired it so far, not hunted with it, but I think I will like it. Not as minute as my Franchi Falconet O/U in 20ga with an English grip, but close. Also, price was right. - simple $400 double trigger shotgun. I also use a Fox Sterlingworth in 16ga that is a favorite upland gun.
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_________________ Give me a drilling or a combo gun. |
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:29 pm
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mbyoh: ANOTHER 16g Sterlingworth Society member Story of my life though, getting on the ship after everybody else buys their ticket. |
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:48 pm
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The Sterly Society is growing rapidly. |
_________________ A bad day of hunting is better than a good day of work. |
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:39 pm
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Do we need our own website?.........Nah. |
_________________ 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 22, 2006 6:16 pm
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fin2feather wrote: |
Do we need our own website?.........Nah.
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Nah, we do just fine right here with the rest of the 16 ga. nuts. |
_________________ A bad day of hunting is better than a good day of work. |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:37 am
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revdocdrew wrote: |
Hey 16GG. I'm still perplexed
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Yup. so what else is new. (Sheesh!... you'd think the poor fellow would be used to it by now.) |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:20 am
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That's a bunch of 16ga SW's. Probably guys selling them because they found out how much they're worth. They've probably doubled in value over the last 5-7 years.
Fluid compressed steel . . . you'll see lots of strange terms for steel on old American doubles. But with Foxes, you don't really need to worry. They're the only one of the old American classics (outside of the Model 21, which was a real late-comer) never made with Damascus barrels. |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:46 am
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Fluid compressed Steel? Now I'm perplexed! If its fluid, how do you get it to stay on the gun?
It sounds like another of those oxymorons like jumbo shrimp. (as opposed to a run of the mill moron.) |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:14 am
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I think Fluid Compressed was Fox's way to embelish and dramitize "forged". |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:25 am
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Fluid Steel Barrels is kinda common terminology, to describe any barrel that is NOT Damascus. Fox probably put the compressed in there to make people think they were stronger than Parkers. |
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:45 am
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See the post today in the '16g. Sterlingworth Society' thread over in 'General Discussion' |
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