Ever have a gun you sold and you later regretted doing so? Here's mine. Last week I got it back after selling it 20 years or more ago to a buddy. I traded him out of it after years of semi-begging for its return. After seeing an ad in the Shotgun News, I bought the gun over 30 years ago from Thad Scott a recently departed gun dealer from Indianola, MS. At the time, I paid too much for it. Serial #500691 made in 1939. NID 10 gauge, chambered for 3.5" shells. Field grade with ejectors; 32" barrels. I used it for turkeys but got tired of carrying it around. So did my buddy. I'd call it a safe queen, but it was more of a gorilla than a queen, and it being a hair under 11 lbs., there is nothing feminine about this brute. I'm happy to get it back. The Prodigal Gun returns with its hairline stock crack and non-factory pad. Turkeybuster should remember this "blaster" from the past and the spectacular misses it generated from my shoulder. In addition to the gun, I got back my old 10 gauge MEC Sizemaster, a sack full of hulls, powder, wads, etc. I was also tickled to get back about 10 lbs. of lead #3 shot which is unobtanium these days. I'll need to run down some primers and I'll be back in business with this old gun. I plan on having a stock man glass bed the stock and add a reproduction Ithaca Sunburst pad on the butt.
When I hunted the gun, I shot a 2 1/8 oz. load of big shot out of the left barrel for far away birds and a spreader load of 2.5 oz. of #3 out of the right barrel for close shots. Over the years, I've progressed through 12 gauges, 20s and spent last season carrying a 3 lbs., 9 oz. single-shot .410 (successfully). Whether or not I tote the gun in the woods again ( I feel I will occasionally for old times' sake), I am very grateful to get the old gun back; my buddy was a good steward of it for two decades or more. I feel like I've found a long lost child getting this one back.
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Hang onto that , those are rare indeed
beautiful shotgun
That would be a great duck gun while hunting from a blind. Wouldn't want to carry it far though.
that is sweet
Thats slick, definitely one to hold on too. Thanks for sharing. :icon_thumright:
Ahhh, always nice to get and old family member back in the fold. And just in time for Christmas!
Thanks, folks. The stock man finished his work and I should have the receiver back in a week or two.
Quote from: eman375 on December 19, 2013, 01:15:46 AM
. And just in time for Christmas!
, Jingle-Bang! jingle-bang! Merry Christmas all! Gil