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< 16ga. Guns ~ Savage 775A |
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:46 am
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Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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A classified ad in the local paper recently ran that included about 7 guns. Most of them being off brand 12 gauge pumps( JC Higgins, High Standards) but one 16 gauge, 775A Savage at $160. I looked the 775A up in several resources and felt it was built a 12 gauge frame and had some odd nearly acid etching like engraving. So I decided to pass. Well after a few days the thought of a 16 gauge within 50 miles of my house, that I did not own consumed me. So I called. Same old story it was the first one he sold & he remarked "I could have sold that gun 20 times over".
Based on this I have two observations
1) After about 20 years of reading classified adds I do not think I have seen more then a handful of 16 gauges. So I call myself I fool for balking.
2) If an old Savage flys out the door with many buyers missing out, what would a new 16 auto on a 20 gauge frame do?
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:45 pm
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That probably would generate some interest but nothing like the interest that would be generated if Ruger introduced the Gold Label in 16 gauge on a properly scaled frame with a color case hardened frame or if Beretta mounted 16 gauge tubes on their 20 gauge 686 frame for you stack barrel fans.
We all have our own preferences mine happens to be classic double guns. |
Last edited by Twice Barrel on Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:37 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:23 pm
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 2176
Location: Kansas High Plains
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A Savage 775A is the only gun I was ever priviledged to see my father shoot. It's also the first shotgun I ever shot, and thanks to the luck of the draw, I still have it. It's a 16ga, which led me down this wonderful road; I never cared to carry another gauge afield. I'm not trying to pick any fights here, nor to say that knowledge isn't a good thing, nor to talk about the real and/or perceived quality of various guns, but: built on a 12-gauge frame? Don't know, don't care. Crude acid etched engraving? Yep, and at one time in my life, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. Good gun/bad gun? I don't know. But I do know this: there is one 775A that can't be bought for any amount of money. Thanks, Dad; love ya. |
_________________ 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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