Graceful Beast
Graceful Beast
Always love looking at the old graceful hammmer guns and the treatments on hammer design, sculpted fences and detonation shields. This 10 gauge, 32-inch heavyweight Tipping and Lawden 'tipping' (I just had to!) the scales at an even 10 pounds came equipped with sling swivels, so I'm pretty sure it saw some time on the coastal estuaries. Kevin
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Re: Graceful Beast
Kevin, nice hammergun. Do you think it had the high-shine coin finish when new?
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Re: Graceful Beast
Stan Hillis wrote:Kevin, nice hammergun. Do you think it had the high-shine coin finish when new?
SRH
I would seriously doubt it Stan - more likely someone "cleaned it up" with 4/0 steel wool or Flitz or Frontier 45 or the like to remove surface corrosion or oxidation; the barrels are their original period-correct dull pale rose finish, now going to light olive color.
Re: Graceful Beast
I own a few hammer shotguns most of them are sub gauge. This one is one of my nice guns.12 Bore,29"bbl.which I like to use at the Vintage Matches. Brian