Finally located

onpoint

onpoint

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Another long search(a number of years) and I have finally located yet another classic. Now, if I can only get the bid and not get out $$$$$$$$$$. Only one bidder as of now. I'll keep you posted....3 days and counting
 
Yet another 16ga..1939 vintage. The hard part, finding one with a 2.75" chamber, Org. butt plate, uncut stock and in shootable decent condition. Bright bore, wish it had a Mod choke but will put up with the full. This is the only one I have ever found, so I best give it that old bird hunter swing for the fence. Seen lots of 12ga's, several short chambered 16's but no 2.75" chambered guns.
 
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Here's a hot one. Only one person has bid on the gun but get this. He's bid twice(no reserve). Must be trying to out bid himself I guess..:rolleyes:
 
Guess taking you to a live Auction is out of the question!!!LOL!!!! Good luck!!!!:cheers:
 
onpoint said:
Here's a hot one. Only one person has bid on the gun but get this. He's bid twice(no reserve). Must be trying to out bid himself I guess..:rolleyes:
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I outbid myself once at an online auction. I logged in to increase my "maximum auto-bid" since I wouldn't be online when the auction ended. When I put in for the increase, it upped my bid by five or ten bucks, whatever the minimimum increase was. I'm sure whoever else was watching that item probably thought I was really eager...:rolleyes:
 
BleuBijou said:
Guess taking you to a live Auction is out of the question!!!LOL!!!! Good luck!!!!:cheers:
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One time at a live auction. I was bidding on something. Then looked across the crowd to the other side of the wagon and seen my competition was my wife. I'm like hey, hey, hey stop bidding damn it. :laugh:

Toad, I figured that may be the case. Although it did not raise the going price at all. He best have put his price way up there. I plan on jumping it a fair chunk at about 30 seconds to go. If it hasn't surpassed my limit by then.

Just a note, why I'm so bent on buying a old gun such as this, when I could buy something modern and new. I guess I'm just stuck in the past and remember these guns that my father, grandfather and other relatives either used or talked about them being used to harvest loads of game back in the depression days or when they had young children, putting food on the table. These guns have real meaning to me.
 
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Is there a 15 minute rule at the end? That kinda stinks when you want to slam the door..
 
reddog said:
Is there a 15 minute rule at the end? That kinda stinks when you want to slam the door..
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Only sucks when you're the buyer. Great deal if you're the seller.
 
All in good time, it's only a little while more. Bad news, the site keeps going to a failure to load. I might just get beat out by a technical glitch...Grr:(
 
Well it's mine, spent just a little more then I wanted to but it's the only all Org. 1897 16ga with a 2.75" chamber in 16ga that I have ever seen. I have seen lots of short chambered altered guns in 16ga. I have conflicting information. My large thick Winchester hard cover book covering the 97's says, they were made up until 1939 and were chambered in 2.75" 16ga after 1931. My "Old" Blue book of gun values says 1897's were made up until 1957. I haven't ever seen any made that late. My large Winchester book says they were made up until 1939. Which would make this one of the last 97 16ga's made. The 2.75" 16ga's were made during the depression era. Not many were sold, as most folks didn't have the money to purchase one. I see they sold for $25.00 to $27.00 for field models back then.

Here's a pic or two
 
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Very pretty.

First shotgun I got was my '97...although a 12ga.

Still love and trust it.

Glad you realized your dream-quest.
 
That is really a nice '97'.
Well done!
I looked once for an IC 16 gauge '97' on general principles and for a grouse gun....never located one that yelled loudly enough.
Your 16 will make a pheasant good.
Watch your thumb and enjoy the old girl.
 
I bought a 97 12ga years ago at a auction that had the barrel cut down for $75.00. It was in tough shape on the outside but works very well and is in good shape on the inside. Came with a old take down canvas case for it. It has a short chamber. My dad has it, he wanted it. He's shot Red Squirrels and scavenger birds off his bird feeder with it years ago but it's sat idle for many years now. It will be mine again some day after he has went to the big hunting fields in the sky. He will be tickled pink when he see's this little honey. I think I bought it more to please him then to please me.. I love that crabby old codger. He's 80 and still drink a cold beer and a shot before dinner and will choke down a beef steak and bake tater. Although he doesn't get around much but he surrounded by his favorite guns and watches for stray cats, Red Squirrels and crackles stealing his bird food..LOL
 
Very Nice!!! I ran out of 20 ga shells this year while shooting Doves and borrowed my buddys 12 ga. 97 because I had 12 ga ammo with me. Took 2 shots and from that point was deadly! That long barrel was tough to swing at first! Also lost a few whiskers from the hammer!!!! Great gun!:cheers:
 
Just a note, the person who was my only competition who voted twice in a row to start the bidding, lost the auction by a $1.12.... :eek: I bet he was not a happy camper last night. :laugh::laugh:
 
Very nice. Those '97s are smooth working guns. I can remember back in the 1950s when it seemed that half the guns you saw in the field were 97s.

The other half were hump-back Brownings, Remingtons and Savages.

Once in a great while some hunters from "down South" would show up with their fancy Browning Superposeds. SD pheasant hunters used to complain that the southern boys shot pheasants like quail - too close - and blew them to smithereens. LOL.
 
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