Post by twomoons on May 21, 2009 20:10:48 GMT -5
Couple weeks ago Bill called and said he had a nice Husky undrelever shotgun in. We talked a while and it sounded a little nicer than my current gun so I called a freind who was looking for a Husky and sold him, MINE.
I still had this idea in mind to take my 50 caliber tube and line up a Cape gun. Well today the man in brown made his pit stop at my house and I got this package about 3 foot long and 18" square. I start unwrapping and I thought it was a joke. The WHOLE box is one big ball of bubble wrap and foam. After about an hour of digging I unearth the butt stock to a very nice Husky and soon a fore end appeared in the foam forrest.
Well, put together, the gun turned out to be the nicest of the 12 gauge Husky's I've handled in the past 6 months. Case colors were like from the factory and were almost 100% even to the screws. The blue was 99% and the stock is figured walnut, not beech. Then I get to looking deeper, the gun is marked 20B and should have been a 27 /12" barrel with 2 1/2" chambers and choked full and full. NOPE... Its a 29 1/2" barrel with 2 3/4" chambers and is choked Modified and full. In additin the barrel is NOT stamped special steel. According to my catalog this is not a factory standard gun, but must have been a special order. Serial number puts this gun as made in Feb of 1940, a pre war. It is WAY to nice to make into a Cape gun, for sure. The bores are shiny NEW and I'll bet the gun has never fired a whole box of shells, if it weren't for the handling dings on the stock the gun would be NIB. The only defect I could find on the whole gun was a missing hammer screw on the right side and since I have a drawer full of those....
Boy I can't wait to see how this one shoots dove loads, since it is 2 3/4" that should be just the ticket. As the total weight of this one is 6 3/4 pounds I doubt it will ever see a 2 3/4 1 1/4 oz load but it should be just right for 1 oz. loads.
But now I still need a cape gun starter, oh well I'll just have to get another gun.
I still had this idea in mind to take my 50 caliber tube and line up a Cape gun. Well today the man in brown made his pit stop at my house and I got this package about 3 foot long and 18" square. I start unwrapping and I thought it was a joke. The WHOLE box is one big ball of bubble wrap and foam. After about an hour of digging I unearth the butt stock to a very nice Husky and soon a fore end appeared in the foam forrest.
Well, put together, the gun turned out to be the nicest of the 12 gauge Husky's I've handled in the past 6 months. Case colors were like from the factory and were almost 100% even to the screws. The blue was 99% and the stock is figured walnut, not beech. Then I get to looking deeper, the gun is marked 20B and should have been a 27 /12" barrel with 2 1/2" chambers and choked full and full. NOPE... Its a 29 1/2" barrel with 2 3/4" chambers and is choked Modified and full. In additin the barrel is NOT stamped special steel. According to my catalog this is not a factory standard gun, but must have been a special order. Serial number puts this gun as made in Feb of 1940, a pre war. It is WAY to nice to make into a Cape gun, for sure. The bores are shiny NEW and I'll bet the gun has never fired a whole box of shells, if it weren't for the handling dings on the stock the gun would be NIB. The only defect I could find on the whole gun was a missing hammer screw on the right side and since I have a drawer full of those....
Boy I can't wait to see how this one shoots dove loads, since it is 2 3/4" that should be just the ticket. As the total weight of this one is 6 3/4 pounds I doubt it will ever see a 2 3/4 1 1/4 oz load but it should be just right for 1 oz. loads.
But now I still need a cape gun starter, oh well I'll just have to get another gun.
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