Sand-Resistant 15-Round (SR) model features a synthetic base pad, a full-length "sand slo Mfg: Beretta Usa SPECS: Body - Carbon steel, heat treated. Built from high carbon, heat-treated steel for maximum strength includes a high tensile strength music wire spring that resists memory and won't weaken over time. Numbered witness holes on the backside allow easy viewing of remaining ammunition. Self-lubricating follower and is injection molded from high-strength polymer for durability. High-tech manufacturing techniques allow seamless construction for snag-free follower movement and smooth insertion into the mag well. The gun has been sold several times since "and the price has changed, too: to $42,000, to $48,000, to $60,000 to God knows what by now."Īs McIntosh writes: "What killed the classic American double is the very thing that, ironically, ensures its survival when quality becomes too expensive to achieve, it also becomes too precious to be without.Beretta Usa 15-Round Beretta 92 9mm Magazine, Sand Resistantįactory, double stack 9mm magazines is ultra-reliable in combat or competition. 410 gauge was bought at auction in 1978 for $31,500. It won't be for sale as long as I'm alive." A vault is the right place for many of these guns. One of McIntosh's friends, in his 80s, told him: "I don't hunt any longer, and I keep the Parker in a vault. Fox, of which he once wrote: "No better gun was ever made." Annie Oakley used an Ithaca in her competition and exhibition shooting. Ithaca named a top-of-the-line gun in his honor - the Sousa Grade. The author mentions other gun enthusiasts by name: March king John Philip Sousa was at one time president of the American Trap Shooters Association. It has a way of exciting a possessive instinct that is almost irresistible." In discussing the popularity of the guns: "My correspondents - and more than a few of them are women - speak of the double with a fond tenderness usually reserved for wives (or husbands), children and aging bird dogs." Come now. Writing on the only over/under shotgun in the book: "The 32 is like that. McIntosh never sounds like a "gun nut," but on a few occasions his enthusiasm for his topic pushes him to verbal excess. Much of the information in the book is technical, but McIntosh manages to present it in terms any interested person can understand (although a glossary would have been helpful to the general reader). He fleshes out the facts with stories of the guns' inventors, of their eccentricities and innovations, of the design problems they encountered and their revolutionary solutions. McIntosh tells the story of these guns simply. According to McIntosh, only about 30 are sold each year, at prices ranging from $6,000 to $15,000 apiece. Today, the Winchester Model 21 is the only one of the seven classics still in production (on a custom-order basis only). Labor and production costs were up, demand was down and, as with several of the other gunmakers, the choice came to selling out or shutting down. By the early '30s, the figure dropped to 500 a year. Through the '20s, Parker was making around 5,000 or 6,000 guns a year. By 1930, the Trojan was selling for $55, and the top of the line was going for nearly $800. In 1915, Parker introduced its Trojan model, which sold for $27.50. In 1899, for example, the Parker doubles ranged in price from $50 to $400. As they were refined and improved, and as each line was expanded, the price range increased, with top models selling for $1,000 and more - even during the Depression. In each case, the guns started out moderately priced. McIntosh traces each of the guns from its invention, through its development to its ultimate demise. Following that are chapters on each of the classic double guns, and then sections on collecting them, shooting them (do), the use of steel shot in them (don't) and finally a guide to the serial numbers and other source information. His prefatory section is a concise thumbnail sketch of the origin and development of shotguns through the late 19th century. McIntosh's writing is generally as crisp and well-ordered as his subject. To author Michael McIntosh, the names represent "The Best Shotguns Ever Made in America." In his book so titled, McIntosh takes the reader on a thoroughly engaging trip through the golden age of the American shotgun - the period from shortly after the Civil War up to World War II. Other people look upon them simply as investments. To others - individuals with ordered minds and an appreciation for mechanical things that work well - they represent the pleasure and satisfaction that come from fine machinery beautifully designed: compact, solid works, an artful blending of metal and wood. To some, those names bring visions of crisp autumn afternoons treading stone-walled fields with a pair of spirited pointers.
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