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!)
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.
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.
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