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Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this amazing double barrel shotgun today for a penny start auction, this is the L.C.Smith / Hunter Arms Company Ideal Grade "Long Range" Configuration!
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: L.C. Smith / Hunter Arms Company
Model: Ideal Grade Long Range Configuration
Serial: RE182617
Range of Manufacture: 1912-1950
Caliber: 12 Gauge / 3" chambers
Finish: Blue & Color case hardened
Barrel Length: 30" barrel with Full and Improved Modified chokes
Optics/Sights: Brass bead front and mid
Stock/Grips: Walnut buttstock and forearm with checkering
Action: Break Action
Markings: Standard / The locks are engraved with a simple oak leaf design. The trigger guard and frame has additional but minimal, engraving. "L.C. SMITH" roll-stamped on the lock plates. The right barrel is roll-stamped "L.C. SMITH IDEAL GRADE", Bottom barrel lug is stamped "Long Range".
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Model: Ideal Grade Long Range Configuration
Serial: RE182617
Range of Manufacture: 1912-1950
Caliber: 12 Gauge / 3" chambers
Finish: Blue & Color case hardened
Barrel Length: 30" barrel with Full and Improved Modified chokes
Optics/Sights: Brass bead front and mid
Stock/Grips: Walnut buttstock and forearm with checkering
Action: Break Action
Markings: Standard / The locks are engraved with a simple oak leaf design. The trigger guard and frame has additional but minimal, engraving. "L.C. SMITH" roll-stamped on the lock plates. The right barrel is roll-stamped "L.C. SMITH IDEAL GRADE", Bottom barrel lug is stamped "Long Range".
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The Hunter Arms Company advertised the Ideal Grade as a "general purpose" gun with "just enough engraving to make it attractive." The locks were engraved with a simple oak leaf design. The trigger guard and frame had additional but minimal, engraving. L.C. SMITH was roll-stamped on the lock plates. In 1913, the Ideal Grade was regularly available with London Steel barrels but could be ordered with Damascus Steel barrels. Barrel lengths were 26, 28, 30, and 32 inches, and they could be bored from cylinder to full choke. The right barrel was roll-stamped L.C. SMITH IDEAL GRADE while the left was marked THE HUNTER ARMS CO. FULTON, N.Y. Gauges were 10, 12, 16, and 20, and .410 was available later.
The 1913 price with two triggers was $37.50. A Hunter One-Trigger added $20 to the price. A gun with ejectors was $49, and one with both ejectors and a Hunter One-Trigger was $69. In 1945, the base price for the Ideal Grade was $87. Between 1913 and 1945, Hunter Arms Company manufactured 22,542 Ideal Grade shotguns. The combined production figures for the period of 1912 through 1950 show a total of 26,686 Ideal Grades separated into the categories of 205 10-gauge, 18,130 12-gauge, 4,460 16-gauge, 3,659 20-gauge, and 232 .410 shotguns.
Anyone who has studied L.C. Smith is aware that their famous “LONG RANGE” configuration was made to shoot a heavy 1 3/8oz. Load while keeping patterns 90% 40 yards. The Long Range is very sought after and nearly impossible to find. Special attention to chamber bore, and chokes from the finest barrel men in the business made the L.C. Smith Long Range gun a legend. The Long Range had heavy barrels with reinforced forend lug, standard frame, 3” chambers, long barrels, and tight chokes. Those are the features that make an L.C. Smith a Long Range gun. 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 1913 price with two triggers was $37.50. A Hunter One-Trigger added $20 to the price. A gun with ejectors was $49, and one with both ejectors and a Hunter One-Trigger was $69. In 1945, the base price for the Ideal Grade was $87. Between 1913 and 1945, Hunter Arms Company manufactured 22,542 Ideal Grade shotguns. The combined production figures for the period of 1912 through 1950 show a total of 26,686 Ideal Grades separated into the categories of 205 10-gauge, 18,130 12-gauge, 4,460 16-gauge, 3,659 20-gauge, and 232 .410 shotguns.
Anyone who has studied L.C. Smith is aware that their famous “LONG RANGE” configuration was made to shoot a heavy 1 3/8oz. Load while keeping patterns 90% 40 yards. The Long Range is very sought after and nearly impossible to find. Special attention to chamber bore, and chokes from the finest barrel men in the business made the L.C. Smith Long Range gun a legend. The Long Range had heavy barrels with reinforced forend lug, standard frame, 3” chambers, long barrels, and tight chokes. Those are the features that make an L.C. Smith a Long Range gun. 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.
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