Old Gun Loading Data

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

Was at a local shop and they had an interesting antique shotgun.  What is really interesting is the loading data label in the upper left hand corner of the gun case.

[twelve mile REB]

What was the price tag?  I doubt I could afford it but it would be an investment worth making. 

[Pat Riot]

88-95 grains of BP 

 

That is very nice. Thanks @Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

38 minutes ago, twelve mile REB said:

What was the price tag?  I doubt I could afford it but it would be an investment worth making. 

 

 

$5,500.00

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

That’s pretty cool right there. 
 

I found the Abercrombie and Fitch connection humorous. Once upon a time they did outfit safaris. Now they sell overpriced Chinese clothing to gender neutral youth. 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

10 minutes ago, Charlie Harley, #14153 said:

That’s pretty cool right there. 
 

I found the Abercrombie and Fitch connection humorous. Once upon a time they did outfit safaris. Now they sell overpriced Chinese clothing to gender neutral youth. 

 

When I was in high school and college I loved to wander through the San Francisco store, marveling at the amazing good that I would never be able to afford.

 

Eventually, I began to make small purchases - a cleaning brush, a handful of flies... just so I could tell myself that I shopped at A&F.  (More than once was I followed through the store during my entire visit by an "undercover" security guy.  ).

 

And now... oh hell, now they're far worse than Eddie Bauer - another one-time terrific retailer...  from "Eddie Bauer, Expedition Outfitter" to "Eddie Bauer, Tennis Togs For the Upwardly Mobile."  

[Alpo]

Anybody good at deciphering other people's handwriting, could you tell me -the second line of CHARGE OF POWDER. The first word and the last word. The first word appears to me to be Aain, which makes no sense, and the last word is _itr_s.  Looks like it starts with an L, maybe, so equivalent in liters (metric weight?). But it looks like it ends in an O, so equivalent in nitro? That makes more sense, but it does not appear to start with an N.

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

25 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Anybody good at deciphering other people's handwriting, could you tell me -the second line of CHARGE OF POWDER. The first word and the last word. The first word appears to me to be Aain, which makes no sense, and the last word is _itr_s.  Looks like it starts with an L, maybe, so equivalent in liters (metric weight?). But it looks like it ends in an O, so equivalent in nitro? That makes more sense, but it does not appear to start with an N.

“Plain black or its equivalent in nitro”

 

Nitro was short for nitrocellulose, an early term for smokeless powder. 

[Tom Bullweed]

6 hours ago, Charlie Harley, #14153 said:

That’s pretty cool right there. 
 

I found the Abercrombie and Fitch connection humorous. Once upon a time they did outfit safaris. Now they sell overpriced Chinese clothing to gender neutral youth. 

Ernest Hemingway bought his Winchester shotguns at A&F.  The model 12 that he shot for years was traded in on a newer model 12 in the late 1950s.  That lost gun would be worth a fortune.  Lots of pictures and stories of Hemingway with that gun that he used to kill injured leopards and lions.

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

Ask the clerk if you bought it, would their gunsmith cut the barrels to 18.5 inches so you could use it for SASS.  Fun to watch them stutter and stammer.