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Offline Cajun Gal

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W. Richards shotgun??
« on: January 22, 2010, 04:41:19 AM »
Anybody ever heard of one of these?  My husband has one.  It's a double barrle 12 gauge with rabbit ears.  Very old. 
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Re: W. Richards shotgun??
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 04:54:20 AM »
Yep check out Double Gun Journal , they are on line also and should have alot of info on your husbans gun . Shooting Sportsman would also be a good source .
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Re: W. Richards shotgun??
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2010, 06:08:38 AM »
Thanks so much Shootal.
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Re: W. Richards shotgun??
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2010, 10:55:49 AM »
I'd be more incline to think it a cheap knock off intended to be confused with the well known and respected Wesly Richards. I probably murdered the spelling of the first name.

There were a LOT of cheaper knockoff guns being made in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s intended to be confused with the well know London makers guns. It worked surprisingly well and a lot of folks didn't realize they were taken until they had them in hand and found them not up to the standards of an English BEST gun.
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Re: W. Richards shotgun??
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 12:37:01 PM »
GB, you are so correct in your assumption.
That is exactly what the company tried to do and by the looks of the numbers of them I see around it must have worked.
Even I have one of them.
Cost a grand total of $5.00 used when I bought it about 30 years ago.
Really ain't worth much more now.
They do make nice wall hangers.


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Re: W. Richards shotgun??
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2010, 04:12:26 AM »
I have a W. Richards 12 ga double with laminated steel barrels.I think that it was  one of many guns that was produced with names that sounded like famous makers of that day.I have probably had mine for fifty years and have shot it many times with black powder loads.For many years collectors only collected the shotguns made by the master builders but today you can find a collector for just about anything.
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