Gosh that's a beautiful gun Steve! Wonderful to imagine it hitting the woods this fall. Best of luck with it.
Usually the guns I post here have been mostly refurbished. I do that to most guns I buy...part of the enjoyment for me. But I'm going to do something different on this one. It's a work in progress.
A few years ago I bought a Remington 1894 BE. Good thick Damascus barrels with lots of life left in them, a beat up stock with a few cracks in the head (don't all Remington's have them?) and not a trace of CCH left, nor was the "patina" particularly attractive. But it was at a good price and Remington BE don't come along every day. They are an underappreciated shotgun, IMHO, made as well as Parkers (and much better than all other American makes). I think they suffer as a "collectible" brand because so few of them were made in smaller gauges. I think of them mostly as "duck" guns. Never for upland.
So after a few years of languishing in my safe, I finally got going on this gun. Have just got it back from the gunsmith....Stelios of SC Gunworks, lately of Keswick, formerly in Markham....and he has repaired, refinished and rechequered the stock. The gun had had the standard hardware store bolt put through the cheeks to arrest the cracking, so after the repair, we decided to chequer the cheeks as well to help hide the properly done repair that is covered by a walnut plug.
I am thinking of turning this into a dedicated skeet gun. It weighs 7 pounds 9 oz, LOP is 14", drop at heel is 3" and chokes currently are IM/IM in 30" barrels. It feels great in my hands, come up nicely and so I am going to shoot it the rest of the fall in it's current state and if I still like it, will be sending it off over the winter for the rest of the job.....refinished barrels, new CCH and chokes opened to Skeet1 & Skeet2.
Could look pretty spectacular with the barrels redone in the period/continent appropriate black and white finish.
Usually the guns I post here have been mostly refurbished. I do that to most guns I buy...part of the enjoyment for me. But I'm going to do something different on this one. It's a work in progress.
A few years ago I bought a Remington 1894 BE. Good thick Damascus barrels with lots of life left in them, a beat up stock with a few cracks in the head (don't all Remington's have them?) and not a trace of CCH left, nor was the "patina" particularly attractive. But it was at a good price and Remington BE don't come along every day. They are an underappreciated shotgun, IMHO, made as well as Parkers (and much better than all other American makes). I think they suffer as a "collectible" brand because so few of them were made in smaller gauges. I think of them mostly as "duck" guns. Never for upland.
So after a few years of languishing in my safe, I finally got going on this gun. Have just got it back from the gunsmith....Stelios of SC Gunworks, lately of Keswick, formerly in Markham....and he has repaired, refinished and rechequered the stock. The gun had had the standard hardware store bolt put through the cheeks to arrest the cracking, so after the repair, we decided to chequer the cheeks as well to help hide the properly done repair that is covered by a walnut plug.
I am thinking of turning this into a dedicated skeet gun. It weighs 7 pounds 9 oz, LOP is 14", drop at heel is 3" and chokes currently are IM/IM in 30" barrels. It feels great in my hands, come up nicely and so I am going to shoot it the rest of the fall in it's current state and if I still like it, will be sending it off over the winter for the rest of the job.....refinished barrels, new CCH and chokes opened to Skeet1 & Skeet2.
Could look pretty spectacular with the barrels redone in the period/continent appropriate black and white finish.
. Hope springs eternal. That is a fine shotgun you are getting done over. Nice job.
