my newest lever gun: clunky-r-us
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my newest lever gun: clunky-r-us
been looking for one of these for a long time to add to my eclectic odd/unusual/ and just plain weird collection:
yes, it is the famous , elusive [though how can you be elusive when no one is looking for you] : Kessler Levermatic style 20 gauge shotun:
looks to be unfired and actually has nice wood!
yes, it is the famous , elusive [though how can you be elusive when no one is looking for you] : Kessler Levermatic style 20 gauge shotun:
looks to be unfired and actually has nice wood!
cable
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Kinda neet in a strange way. I like it!
hfcable, you would probably like this one of mine, it is a 1957 Mossberg 200K 12gage. Mossbergs first pump gun. Glad they kept trying
Kinda neet in a strange way. I like it!
hfcable, you would probably like this one of mine, it is a 1957 Mossberg 200K 12gage. Mossbergs first pump gun. Glad they kept trying
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[quote="salvo"]What were they thinking
Kinda need in a strange way. I like it!
hfcable, you would probably like this one of mine, it is a 1957 Mossberg 200K 12gage. Mossbergs first pump gun. Glad they kept trying
you know, that is neat! i remember there was a p ump gun with detachable box magazine....isd thaqt one? always thought it would be handy....easy to keep different rounds in different magazines, and load it quickly! this that the way that one works? maybe i need to find one of those!
Kinda need in a strange way. I like it!
hfcable, you would probably like this one of mine, it is a 1957 Mossberg 200K 12gage. Mossbergs first pump gun. Glad they kept trying
you know, that is neat! i remember there was a p ump gun with detachable box magazine....isd thaqt one? always thought it would be handy....easy to keep different rounds in different magazines, and load it quickly! this that the way that one works? maybe i need to find one of those!
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Re: my newest lever gun: clunky-r-us
Well, if you wanted unusual you got a good one!
hfcable wrote:yes, it is the famous , elusive [though how can you be elusive when no one is looking for you]
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i think you are exactly right; and it is unusual; the company that made these, mainly made bolt action shotguns, but i have read that this design, which has a short throw lever, was the predecessor of the marlin levermatic series. it is a very smooth action.505stevec wrote:you know when women look at an UGLY kid or puppy and say "OOOh how cute"!!! Well that is your gun in a nutshell
i have two original 1901 winchester leveraction shotguns, an 1887 winchester [repro] shotgun, and two original old model marlin lever action 410s from the 1920-30s era, and just need one of these to complete the weirdness. spencer actually made some lever action shotguns before they went out of business, but i think they might have functioned as just single shots, and not magazine fed. a few prototype marlin old model 1895s were made up in 20 ga. and there was the Larson Whitner made in ?Germany? that was a leveraction shotgun and Micks guns in england has two of them in 16 gauge for sale way above my budget or i would get one
here is the Larson Whitner:
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cool
over 30 years of guns shows and pawn shop hunting here.... I have never seen one of those shotguns...
I've never come across the Mossberg either...
Neat.
Hill
I've never come across the Mossberg either...
Neat.
Hill
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Not a lever but here's another I never knew existed, Marlin Model 90 O/U shotgun:rjohns94 wrote:never knew such a critter even existed. very nice find. thanks for sharing.
http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/showthread.php?t=337687
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This running with the Joneses boy
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I think azzhandler posted about his Kessler before, but I'd never heard of the others mentioned in this thread. Always learnin' something new around here!
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hey hfcable, check out the choke in your kessler, if its choked like mine was, the choke starts about 11 inches before the end of the barrel, I found out after I cut the barrel off on mine. I should have shot some shot loads through my gun before I cut it off, but I just couldnt help myself,
the moment I laid eyes on the kessler, I knew I had to have it , and It needed some sights for shooting slugs, Ive had mine for about 2 yrs or so, and you are the only other guy besides myself that has ever said they have 1
the moment I laid eyes on the kessler, I knew I had to have it , and It needed some sights for shooting slugs, Ive had mine for about 2 yrs or so, and you are the only other guy besides myself that has ever said they have 1
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i had heard of them, but the pictures you posted in the past were the first i had seen and i knew i wanted one. is a lot lighter and better balanced than it looks. yours looks really well set up.azzhandler wrote:hey hfcable, check out the choke in your kessler, if its choked like mine was, the choke starts about 11 inches before the end of the barrel, I found out after I cut the barrel off on mine. I should have shot some shot loads through my gun before I cut it off, but I just couldnt help myself,
the moment I laid eyes on the kessler, I knew I had to have it , and It needed some sights for shooting slugs, Ive had mine for about 2 yrs or so, and you are the only other guy besides myself that has ever said they have 1
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you know i found this on an online proxibid auction from Kull and supica; first one if ever had a crack at getting, and it cost me a little under 300.00 including the shipping, which i think is a good deal.Ysabel Kid wrote:Harold, where do you find these things?!? Is there a market for unusual firearms up in Alaska?!?
Congrats... I think!
i really do like unusual lever guns.
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