Tell us about your 'oddball' shotguns

Grouse Man

Grouse Man

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Sure, everybody here is yappin' about their 870 or their Mossberg or any other common as dirt shotgun.

But let's hear from the guys who own the oddities, the rare makes, the hardware branded guns, the stuff that gets no respect but are perfectly serviceable guns. Who has a Marlin pump shotgun, or a Smith & Wesson Auto? Anybody got a Browning Double Auto or an R500? High Standard? Who is shooting a Savage 775?

For this one, let's save the higher end guns for another thread.

Show and tell time, kiddies! Tell us about their build quality, reliability, function, etc., are they ugly ducklings, diamonds in the rough, or just rough and ugly?
 
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I've got my father's old single shot 12 gauge that I snuck out of the house in pieces when I was a kid and shot my first grouse with.

He said he got it off a great-uncle, so it is at least 110 years old now. I think we are both lucky it didn't blow up in our faces using modern ammo in the 1960s in it.

It is probably a 'hardware store' gun, the only markings on it are "St. Lawrence."

Apparently my great-great-uncle disappeared from Quebec for about 30 years and nobody knows where he went, taking the gun with him. Dad thinks he might have been a railway worker, trapper, miner, who knows, but when he came back from his adventure he had the gun with him that he had purchased new in Quebec.

The firing pin has been replaced with a piece of finishing nail and the stock has been broken and repaired with a screw. I remember a pipe clamp on it at one time.

I asked my father again last week in the care home where he resides now how he broke the stock.

When he first moved to Port Hardy in 1953 it was the only gun he had, and he shot a deer with it. He couldn't remember if he used a slug or birdshot.

Anyway, it was wounded and he didn't want to ruin the meat by shooting it again with birdshot so he clubbed it and broke the stock.
 
Not all that uncommon, but certanly not mainstream are my bolt mossberg shotguns, I've got the 410 and the 20ga with the variable chokes. I shoot trap, and birds with them.

Cool story MD definatly some history in that shotgun.

Nic
 
Mossberg bolt action shotguns

Here are my three Mossqueters,185K 20ga,190 16 ga.195ka 12ga.Still looking for a good 410.
Enjoy CCIC:dancingbanana:
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Mossberg 181K .410 with c-lect choke
Stevens 820B with cutts compensator
Stevens 20 ga bolt action.
Steven 311 double
Winchester M97.
W.W. Greener Police 12 Ga
cooey smoothbore .22 single shot

I sold a Browning double Auto that I reget selling to this day, it was a very good upland gun.
Also in the I shouldn't have sold catagory was a Darne sliding breach double.
 
I have a S&W M1ooo skeet which is in almost perfect condition.
Bought all the parts I will need from Lonestar in Texas to keep it running indefinately. Neet toy
 
Cant even think of the name of the manufacturer, and dont have the gun anymore. But it was a single shot break action 16 gauge, with a rock hard recoil pad on it. Was the first shotgun I had ever shot back when I was about 6 or 7 years old, give or take, I cant remember. My father had to help me hold onto it as I would fall on my arse if he didnt.
 
I bought an old Winchester single for $20.00 because it had no trigger guard. I thought how hard could it be to make a new one? I was quite proud of how it looked and took it hunting.The first grouse I cocked the hammer and touched it off.The pain was terrible. Apparently I didn't have the dimensions of the trigger guard right and ended up donating a lot of skin and blood from my hand. I never fired it again and ended up trading it in on a Remington single shot. Good riddance
 
Rem 58

I own a Remingtom 58 shotgun bought off of another Gunnut and after replacing the firing pin what a great shotgun. This is the smoothest shotgun I've ever shot.
 
I had an Iver Johnson champion 12ga single, a mossberg 295k 12ga bolt, and a savage 29b pump .22, I sold last year to make room, but I don't really miss them :) All 3 went for $125 :eek:
 
joe-nwt said:
Nothing more exotic than a Remington Model 10 trap grade.

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What type of firearm is that beside the shotgun leaning against the wall. I have never heard of a Eureka shotgun before. Looks to be about a 4 gauge or so!
 
Cletus said:
What type of firearm is that beside the shotgun leaning against the wall. I have never heard of a Eureka shotgun before. Looks to be about a 4 gauge or so!
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That is much more modern than the model 10. Why, it even has a electronic firing system. It's recharging in that pic.....:D
 
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