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Show DmcsQQ New SfM By TED RESTING A number of items of special interest to sportsmen are included in Shooting Editor Edi-tor Grits Gresham's "Shotgun "Shot-gun News" in the March issue of Sports Afield. FOR INSTANCE, he tells us that Ruger finally introduced its long-awaited 20-gauge OU at the NSGA show in Chicago in February. Some think Bill Ruger would have done better to come out with a good side-by-side double, but he doesn't seem to have goofed yet since he began making firearms a short time ago. ONE OF the best of the OUs may well be the Pigeon Grade Model 101 which Winchester introduced last year. With a gray, satin steel, handsomely engraved receiver and a hand-checkered hand-checkered stock of beautiful French walnut, it is clearly one of the nicest looking shotguns around. IT SEEMS to point even better than does the excellent standard grade Model 101, especially in the 12 gauge where weight has been reduced by half a pound by receiver cuts to only Tt pounds with 26-inch barrels. In the skeet version the 20 gauge is a quail-hunter's delight. At a suggested price of $695, the Pigeon Grade 101 is a bargain. THAT PIGEON Grade was only one of two new OUs that the Olin firm added in 1976, dropping in the Xpert at the low end and leaving the standard stan-dard Model 101 as the middle of a lineup of three OUs. This plain-vanilla number is Model 96, and, although it doesn't seem to have gotten off the ground very far, it has performed very well in tests. POINTS WELL, has single-selective single-selective triggers and auto ejectors. . .a lot of gun for the $475 retail price. Mossberg has made a sensible sen-sible move this year, making its Model 500 pump available to Winchester's Winchoke, the adjustable chokes of the Perazzi MT-6 and Stan Baker's custom installation. THE Mossberg is called the Accu-Choke, and the tubes are interchangeable with Winchester's and Stan Baker's not with Perazzi. The gun will come with three tubes- I.e., Modified and Full. As an added stroke of horse sense, the tubes are imprinted imprint-ed so you can identify them by feel. Mossberg has swelled the muzzle of the barrel slightly to accept the tubes. SAVAGE HAS made a .410 OU out of its Model 24 rifle-shotgun rifle-shotgun combination. Good walnut stock, beavertail forearm checkering, while line spacer. . .and it retails at $124.50. This is a hammer gun, and the hammer must be cocked for each shot. The barrel selector must be shifted between shots, which can be done quickly with a bit of practice. ITHACA IS introducing for 1977 a version of the Perazzi Competition I Single Barrel Trap Gun with interchangeable interchangea-ble choke-tube systems found on the MT-6 OU. It comes with four tubes. Modified, Improved Modified, Full and Extra Full. |