Blind pig finds two acorns!
Blind pig finds two acorns!
Scored a 1946 L.C. Smith Ideal Grade - UNFIRED - 12ga. double and a Browning Auto 5, 1953, - UNFIRED. My goodness. Even an old fool like me can still sniff out some good stuff!
GOOD RIDDANCE LGR!! If there isn't a gun range in heaven, then I'm going to hell.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Re: Blind pig finds two acorns!
Those sound very nice. Pricey as well. Pics?
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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Re: Blind pig finds two acorns!
Who the hell back in the days when money was still real and hard to come by would spend for two expensive shotguns and then never fire them?????
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Blind pig finds two acorns!
The fellow who originally bought these guns came to Canada from England in the 1920's. Once established as a farmer, he started a family and bought guns. He was a hunter as well, living in good whitetail, duck, goose, Prairie Chicken, and Ruffed Grouse country. I remember going out to his farm with my parents as a little kid, 60 years ago.
He passed on and his son, who is now over 70, inherited all the guns. Quite a few are still unfired. Some really nice stuff....
He passed on and his son, who is now over 70, inherited all the guns. Quite a few are still unfired. Some really nice stuff....
GOOD RIDDANCE LGR!! If there isn't a gun range in heaven, then I'm going to hell.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
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GOOD RIDDANCE LGR!! If there isn't a gun range in heaven, then I'm going to hell.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
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Not too sure on how to determine what variation of Auto 5 this one is, or if it is just a "standard" model. Anyone out there who can help an old dude! 
GOOD RIDDANCE LGR!! If there isn't a gun range in heaven, then I'm going to hell.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
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I would lean toward standard model as it boasts no engraving. It is a Belgian made one correct? This link will help you date it for sure. http://www.browning.com/customerservice ... .asp?id=13kjohn wrote:Not too sure on how to determine what variation of Auto 5 this one is, or if it is just a "standard" model. Anyone out there who can help an old dude!
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Re: Blind pig finds two acorns!
Yes. Got it dated there. Nice old shotgun, to be sure.millman wrote:I would lean toward standard model as it boasts no engraving. It is a Belgian made one correct? This link will help you date it for sure. http://www.browning.com/customerservice ... .asp?id=13kjohn wrote:Not too sure on how to determine what variation of Auto 5 this one is, or if it is just a "standard" model. Anyone out there who can help an old dude!
GOOD RIDDANCE LGR!! If there isn't a gun range in heaven, then I'm going to hell.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. Heinrich Himmler