Judy and I were present at our new Italian baby's arrival!

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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I got a call yesterday from my buddy's sporting good store saying that the Breda 12 ga. SXS I got on AuctionArms.com had arrived. Judy & I drove right over and picked it up (no waiting period in Oregon, instant background check by phone!)

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This is a Breda model B-4-C about 30+ years old. It's a 2-3/4" 12 ga. with 28" IC & Mod. chrome lined barrles, beavertail forend and pictol grip stock. Gun has seen very little use with 100% blue and the wood is 99%. There is no wear at all on the blued triggers. It was shor a few times, then stored in a closet for many years.


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The oil soaked "gunge" that was around the base of the lever cleaned right up with a little Hoppe's #9 and a toothbrush. I took the gun apart and hit all the metal with Gun Scrubber and the toothbrush and re-assmebled it with liberal coats of Break Free lube. Gun looks, feels and works like new now.



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Judy had a smirl on her face all the way home and when we walked into the house she went to her closet and came back out with a box and haded it to me. Now I knew what that grinning smirk was about.

I opened the box and inside was this new Cabela's heavy green canvas duck & leather break-down shotgun case. She gave me a peck on the cheek and said "your nice gun needed a nice & proper gun case". How can you argue with a woman who has that kind of logic?

Dave

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Dave,

That is an absolute beauty. I'm not a scholar of firearms so I've never heard of that manufacturer. Is that a custom piece? Where does it come from.

Ed L.
 
dave,

another beaut as always. make sure i'm in your will! :) some of the nuggets you mined back during the gold rush would be nice :p

jeff
 
Wow, sweet gun ya got there Dave. Is it an ejector or extractor? See how it shoots with slugs and go after that big bear!!
 
Yikes, Dave! That is one sweet shotgun. I doubt I'll ever own anything as nice, but thanks for posting the pictures.
 
Breda is an Italian gun making company that has been around for years. It's just one of many Italian gun makers that are well known in Europe as well as with old farts like me. It was a Breda gun that won the International Clay pigeon shoot in Madrid, Spain back in 1950. If anything, they were known for their very populat Breda simi-auto back then.

Dave
 
Congrats on your new baby Dave. That's a really beauty you have there. Keep us posted on how she shoots.

Hunt Safe.
Ryan
 
Dave, I'd be sure and get some fine Corinthian leather gloves to wear when you shoot it. Shooting a gun like that with Missouri Mules is like using monofilament for decoy lines. Sweet piece!
 
Thanks Jeff. Hey, where have you been lately? I thought you might have gotten lost in all that cork dust at your place. Glad to see you posting again.

Dave
 
When I was young I wanted doubles with ejectors because it was cool, now being older I want doubles with extractors because I don't have to bend over to pick up my hulls for reloading. :^)

Nice Harlequin drake....where ys get it?

Dave
 
I be danged, that is the very same place I shot mine! Take a look at the pretty Purday I just posted, you may be interested in it....the price is RIGHT!

Dave
 
I saw that..trying to stuff my eyeballs back in the sockets. Let's see....145,000.00 ? What are those two tools that look like testical torture instruments?
 
Lee. you cheated on the Purdey price, but you sure do know your English cased gun tools! Those two tools are called SCI tools. They are used as warnings to your P.H. while on Safari.

If he says your cape buffalo will make book and it don't...he gets to be tortured with these SCI tools.

Dave
 
you see them more commonly without the screwdriver end.....and also way more often in nickel silver instead of gold plate....

Look at them and imagine them without the screwdriver end.....the round hole is a finger hole and the clawed end is used to extract swollen cases from the chamber after they get "swolled up", (not likely a Purdey term), after firing....

the screw driver end looks curved and likely serves to lift the case out far enough for the claws on the ring end to engage....

I'm not sure waht the three little toothpick thingys are that surrond them.....gee gaws maybe?

Steve
 
Hmmmm...and I would have just pulled out my Swiss Army knife and dug them out or jammed the correct size stick down the barrel to pop them out. Is "gee gaws" Suthin' for fancy trim? Dave, was my price guess close?
 
that own Swiss Army Knives.....or that use convienant sticks to clear barrels.

Gee Gaws....yep..Southern for "fancy trim" although we often call that "walky leg" as well....

Steve
 
Why those bastards! I suppose that each of the nut wrenches is marked so as to be used on the correct barrel?? Jeeves..OH Jeeves, hand me my ball socket for the upper tube sil vu plait..
 
two different gauges, two different wrenches.....the claw on the 410 wouldn't fit the 20 ga case, and vice versa....

And I thinks Jeeves and "silvous plait" is mixing two different cultures......

And they callus Southerners ignernt....

Steve
 
Ya might be a redneck if......ya talk francais to a english butler..... So why wouldn't a hook that pulls the rim of a 20 ga pull the rim on a 410? I'm going to demand a pearl handled Swiss army knife in my set.
 
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