NOW, FOR THE FINAL CLAIM TO AN EXTREMELY RARE FIND…THIS GUN HAS 98% FACTORY CONDITION TO GO WITH ALL THE REST! L.C. Smith guns) and you have A VERY RARE COMBINATION INDEED. Now that is RARE! Now consider the factory English stock (only found on about 10% of the total production of L.C. Not so “Rare”, but only 343 had ejectors, and only 66 had single selective triggers. Smith Collectors Association letter and the Cody Firearms Museum letter documenting it is a Long Range, one of about 2000 ever made. It does have all the features of a Long Range and we have the L.C. This Field Grade Long Range, snRE51777, was built and shipped in 1922 and does not have the “LONG RANGE” marking on the barrel lug. The Long Range was not officially introduced to the public until 1923 and most (definitely not all) were marked with “LONG RANGE” on the bottom of the barrel lug visible on the underside of the action. The Long Range had heavy barrels with reinforced forend lug, standard frame, 3” chambers, long barrels, and tight chokes. Special attention to chamber, bore, and chokes from the finest barrel men in the business is what made the L.C. load while keeping patterns 90% 40 yards, the Long Range is very sought after and in high condition like this one, nearly impossible to find. Smith is aware of their famous “LONG RANGE” waterfowler. Smith 12 Gauge – LONG RANGE, 3″, STRAIGHT GRIP, SST, SxS SHOTGUNĪnyone who has studied L.C. Smith 12 Gauge – LONG RANGE, 3″, STRAIGHT GRIP, SST, SxS SHOTGUN: I’ll let the seller tell you all about it: Smith had fully developed the features of these guns and come up with a consistent way to designate them. This Field grade Long Range Water Fowl Gun was made in 1922, a few years before L.C. Smith 12 Gauge – LONG RANGE, 3″, STRAIGHT GRIP, SST, SxS SHOTGUN These Long Range Guns don’t come up very often and this is a particularly useful and popular configuration. Mechanics are crisp and bores are bright and shiny. There is a small repair to the bottom left stock finger as seen in the photos. Stocks are sound and retain most of a restored finish. Action retains about 35% light original color. Barrels show most of an older restored blue with an area of light pinprick pitting at the breech end of the left tube on top. This gun remains in fine condition overall. The tip of the beavertail on this gun with a bone inlay that appears it could be original. Gun with large original beavertail forend, capped pistol grip buttstock and made with Hunter One SST.
Smith Specialty Grade Long Range gun made with 32″ barrels. Smith Specialty Grade 12ga “LONG RANGE” 32″ – FANTASTIC Duck Gun: Exceedingly rare configuration with ONLY 2 made in this configuration!! Matches the LCSCA letter as found today! 12ga L.C. Smith Specialty grade 12ga “Long Range” 32″ fantastic duck gun! They weighed 8 – 8 1/2 lbs and had 30″ or 32″ barrels with 3″ chambers and were designed to handle 1 3/8-oz of shot. Smith Long Range Wild Fowl Guns were big 12 gauges built with wide, heavy actions and barrels built to withstand the recoil from heavy loads. These Smiths were also made to shoot Western’s new ammo and the company claimed “The killing range of this gun is from 70 to 85 yards, and the gun is capable of killing at even longer distances.” Smith got into the long-range game with its Long Range Wild Fowl Guns. Western Super X ammoĪround the same time as Fox, L.C. These guns were built to take ducks at long ranges using Western’s new12-gauge Super-X shotgun shells. In the early ’20s, Fox introduced its contribution to this tradition: the A.H. Power and range have always been obsessions with shooters, and as long as people have been using shotguns, they’ve tried to build ones that can reach out further and take game at longer ranges.