ive been known to collect odd stuff. but that's what collecting is all about. was a time when they were pretty common, but of course, time marched on. anyone here still shoot ribless guns? I do. my Mossberg 183k 410 and some model 50's. got any pics? post em up!
Ha Bobski ,here’s a couple of blast from the past.a very clean and all original Remington 32 with the hard to find 28 inch barrels and a your favorite model 50 light weight.I have several 50s ,softest shooting auto out there with a great trigger.When you come down to it a rib really doesn’t add that much value on skeet except high one and low seven.
nice pair of guns there m.j.. thanks for posting! those old m50's are sleepers. everyones searching high and low for a nice soft recoiling 12ga gun and spending countless bucks on gizmos to do it...and it was already made 65 years ago!
A marlin 90 was my first skeet gun in the early 60s.it was a field gun and had the barrels cut to 26 inch’s. About ten years ago or more I found and bought a marlin 20 ga “ skeeter “ you maybe never saw one ,factory engraved and very rare.Should have keep that one but seeing I lost part of my trigger finger to Scleroderma couldn’t get on that front trigger I sold it on the Marlin collectors sight.Thought I got good money for it but the buyer said he owes me more money and was tickled pink that he got it.
No,that one looks cleaner,thats only the second one I have ever seen 50 and I have been at many shows all over the country,nice gun
Lots of ribless guns Marlin was a hunting gun . Not a bad design. Could be updated and produced today
I have shot clays and game with both ribbed and ribless barrels, and I don't see any difference at all in the way they perform. I actually prefer the looks of a ribless barrel. Looks more business-like: meaner, all for work, not made for fashion or style. Maybe that's because I was raised on a ribless Ithaca M37.
ribs werent meant for style, they were meant to dissipate heat wave distortion above the sighting plane.
I have a Winchester model 50 that I got back in 1962 with plain barrel and I still hunt with it, there great guns.
agree. problem is, no one wants old things anymore. I got a safe full of them just sitting, not being enjoyed by others.
