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Old Topper, fresh meat.
« on: March 12, 2011, 08:07:17 AM »
Took my old 32" fc Topper to a turkey shoot today.  Missed the cut on the Quigley Sharps by a couple  thousanths.  Won a couple of meat shoots.  The guys with the $1000.00 "turkey" guns were over inspecting the rusty old relic, and asking me what kind of gunsmithing I had done on it.  I told them the details of the 0000 steel wool and WD treatment to remove rust........ :)

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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2011, 11:28:12 AM »
I love it when a old stock gun makes those gun butching card shooters ask what was  done.
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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2011, 11:33:42 AM »
Keep up the good work mechanic!
What gauge is your Topper?
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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2011, 02:45:06 PM »
Quote from: streak on March 12, 2011, 11:33:42 AM
Keep up the good work mechanic!
What gauge is your Topper?

12 ga.  Short chamber, but I have some Fiocchi that should do the job on turkey nontheless..

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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 12:27:01 PM »
I wish all the new and improved,supermagnumthunderboomers ,would read this post and realize how many millions of turkeys,and other game have been taken with the  standard 2 3/4 loads. Good hunting skills more than makes up for  bigger guns ,more recoil,and tons of money ,spent on this stuff.
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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2011, 06:32:11 PM »
That is a big "10-4" FLNT4EVER!
 I shot my first bobwhite with a single shot Win Mod 37 12 gauge with 1 1/8 oz of # 8`s.
Sure would be nice to have a Topper venilated rib in 16 gauge, that would be a bird killing machine!
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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2011, 08:23:31 PM »
Glad to hear about the old Win mod 37.Many years ago I took my first ,and best ,Adirondack whitetail with one.I still have that old shotgun and plan on handing it down to my grandson.
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Re: Old Topper, fresh meat.
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2011, 09:03:12 AM »
Quote from: FLNT4EVR on March 14, 2011, 08:23:31 PM
Glad to hear about the old Win mod 37.Many years ago I took my first ,and best ,Adirondack whitetail with one.I still have that old shotgun and plan on handing it down to my grandson.

Last year after my mother`s  passing, I became the heir to my grandpa`s Model 37 in 16 gauge!
Probably not over three shells ,if any, had ever been shot throught this gun. My daddy, also deceased, had bought the gun for his father back in the late 1950~s or early 1960~s.

Of course the gun is like new in appearance.
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