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Long Tom

YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
If you have this bit of information and a dollar you can probably get a cup of coffee anywhere in town. I met a collector at the local Gun Show that was displaying his collection. One of his pieces was a LongTom shotgun. So I asked and here is the info: The name is LongTom written in script on the side, knock off's will have it stamped in block letters, The real one has a 42in barrel, the knock off'e have a 40in barrel. The name long tom is a nick name given to all single barrel shotguns. So except no imitations; There is a real LongTom. Anyone who knows anything more, please tell us.90% of what I know came from people who knew more than me, and I listened.
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    How about... All this doesn't really matter???Not all singles are called "Long Tom's". In fact, they go by a variety of names. Script doesn't make one the "Real Thing" as the name was used by several manufacturers including Ithaca.And it all boils down to a non-collectible $35.00 gun no matter what you've been told. I know... There are those who would tell you differently, but they're sitting on the sell side of the table. And they can't find buyers at table prices.
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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Long Tom: Trade name used by the Sears, Roebuck and Company of Chicago on shotgunsthey retailed.Made by H&R
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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SaxonPig,you're right. Long Tom was a Sears Trade name much as Ted Williams was. Sears never made a gun of any kind, they were all contracted out.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Well, that's interesting. I started a thread several weeks ago trying to find out what I could on these shotguns. My father-in-law gave one to me and I knew nothing about it. It DOES have the name "Long Tom" in script. And brother...it's LONG.
    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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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heard when Turkey season was in they were advertised as turkey guns. When water fowl season was in, they advertised them as GOOSE guns. Very versitile for a single shot I'd say.
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  • songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't they call them rabbit guns year round?songdog
    Be bold in what you stand for, careful in what you fall for.
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    Here's the REAL "Long Tom": http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m59.htm
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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Xracer, must be GOOSE season.
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In my Wife's Grandmother's house, there was a Long Tom shotgun standing in the corner of her bedroom.(There were guns in every corner of every room.) When she went into the Nursing home, one of the family removed them for safekeeping.We never found out which family member, although the one that lives on the property would be very suspect. Wife lost 2 grandparents that year, one from each side. One estate was settled in three months,not a cross word spoken, the other took years, a battle til the end. I am in the middle of purchasing what is left of the estate just to keep it in the family and to prevent the "other bunch" from breaking it up any more than it already has. The shotgun will probably never show up again.
    Have Gun, will travel
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To the coment on " when some one wants to sell somthing" That would be true if he was a person at gun show to sell, The person that I got the information from was not selling, just displaying his collection.
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