And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Is the bottom one a Model 12 shotgun?
ReplyDeleteSure looks like the 1917 version in my possession, was my grandpappy's rabbit and pheasant gun.
DeleteI think that that is a model 42.
Deletevery nice. a couple have butt stocks cut for recoil pads. Collectors cry.
ReplyDeleteShooters understand
Gun porn, me likee.
ReplyDeleteNice grouping '01, '97, '87 and Model 12 shotguns.
ReplyDeleteNice indeed.
I've got the '97 in 16 gA. Granddad bought it in 1913.
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Second one down was grandpa’s my brother got it
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