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"Long Tom" shotgun

LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
My father-in-law recently gave me an old single-shot 12ga. The thing has a barrel roughly a mile and a half long. All it says anywhere on the gun is "Long Tom", in flowing script on the barrel.Anybody know anything about this piece?
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  • 22WRF22WRF Member Posts: 3,385
    edited November -1
    I have one in 16ga.Did a "ask the experts" on it sometime ago. The replies were.Made several different companies for a Chicago Hardware Wholesaler and distributed to hardware stores through out the midwest.Mine is a 36" barrel full choke and no marking other than "Long Tom". Value appears not to be much.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    39.5 inches long.I have no intention of shooting it. Might put it over the mantle. The old dude's in great shape. The ol' lady's dad says he hunted with it into the late sixties and it's just been sitting ever since.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    I`ve got one in a 16ga. It kicks like a mule
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  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have a 12ga with 38 1/2" barrel. good for turkey shoots. has tight pattern, but i agree it kiks like a missourie mule. carl
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a Topler 68 12g 36'inch anything longer is a "goose" gun (Birds single A)he he he !
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Knew a guy in school the gals usta giggle and call "long tom". Don't know what that was all about tho.
    "Audemus jura nostra defendere"- - - - - - - - - - - - -It is hard to make a comeback if you have never been on top.
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