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  1. #21
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    Hope you locate guns and glad y'all are ok. It's all fun and games until that water comes over the side! Scary as hell!

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    Was able to get back out to where we flipped for the first time Friday to try and find the guns. After about 45 minutes of tossing a scuba magnet and having to strip down and go swimming, I came up with the 28. No luck on the others. The magnet helped locate it but couldn’t pull it off the bottom due to being buried. Was covered in about 4” of sand and in rough but not irreparable shape. Got it broken down and soaking in a mixture of Evapo-rust and Transmission fluid. The rust fell off it, will get it reblued and possibly some new wood. Glad to have it back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FULLCHOKE View Post
    Was able to get back out to where we flipped for the first time Friday to try and find the guns. After about 45 minutes of tossing a scuba magnet and having to strip down and go swimming, I came up with the 28. No luck on the others. The magnet helped locate it but couldn’t pull it off the bottom due to being buried. Was covered in about 4” of sand and in rough but not irreparable shape. Got it broken down and soaking in a mixture of Evapo-rust and Transmission fluid. The rust fell off it, will get it reblued and possibly some new wood. Glad to have it back.

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    Glad you were able to get it Im sure if you had your choice of which to find that would have been it.

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    Fantastic, I've been hoping for this story.

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    Congrats on the recovery, that will make a cool story now.

    A $30 full zip floating gun case is worth its weight in gold btw.

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    Great to hear you found it.

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    Awesome.
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    Glad you found it! Impressive.

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    good stuff.
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    Glad you found it.
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    Literally translated to, "I smell like Scotch and Kodiak".
    "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"- Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

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    Those little pond boats...

    Glad everything came out ok and you found your piece...

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    Finished up the makeover on this little gun.

    Probably have over 20 hours in it. Reblued, too many hours of prep and sanding, and re-engraved it myself. Trophy shops wouldnt touch it and the jewelry stores around here wanted way too much to bring out the original engraving and rightly so. Took me three very tedious hours to re-etch the engraving myself.

    The wood has its blemishes but it came a long way. You can still tell that it sat at the bottom of a river for two weeks but overall Im very happy with how it turned out.

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    Looks great
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    Hell yeah

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    Well done. Did you do the re blue yourself?

    The blemishes will remind your grandchildren of the time grandpa flipped a boat after bird hunting and recovered it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chessbay View Post
    Literally translated to, "I smell like Scotch and Kodiak".
    "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"- Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

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    Wow...inspiring. I've been wanting to re-finish the stock on the sweet sixteen my great uncle gave me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smitch320 View Post
    Well done. Did you do the re blue yourself?

    The blemishes will remind your grandchildren of the time grandpa flipped a boat after bird hunting and recovered it.
    My first thought as well. You’re never going to sell it, so who cares, now it just has some character and a story.

    Looks good.

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    Shot the 28 ga A400 yesterday. Improved Mod choke and it smokes them just like a 20. 7/8 oz 9s.

    That refinished 870 is beautiful
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    Quote Originally Posted by smitch320 View Post
    Well done. Did you do the re blue yourself?
    I wasted about half of a Saturday trying to teach myself to blue. Ended up stripping it all back down and realized it’s one of those things that is worth a professional doing. Took it to Darlington Gun works and they did a great job.

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