ribless skeet guns

Discussion in 'Skeeters Corner' started by bobski, Mar 25, 2023.

  1. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    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!
    m50 ends.JPG
     
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  2. Michael jenis

    Michael jenis Well-Known Member

    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.
     

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  3. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    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!
    win m50 field.jpg
     
  4. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    i had a marlin 90 12ga with zero rib. best natural pointing gun i owned.
     
  5. Michael jenis

    Michael jenis Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  6. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    i stumbled on to one on the net a couple of decades ago. maybe it was yours!?
    marlin 90.jpg
     
  7. Michael jenis

    Michael jenis Well-Known Member

    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
     
  8. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    hens teeth indeed.
     
  9. g7777777

    g7777777 Mega Poster

    Lots of ribless guns

    Marlin was a hunting gun . Not a bad design. Could be updated and produced today
     
  10. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    interesting how the 90 had strikers instead of firing pins.
     
  11. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    even the rem M32 had a ribless design.
     
  12. gone7tee

    gone7tee Member

    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.
     
  13. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    ribs werent meant for style, they were meant to dissipate heat wave distortion above the sighting plane.
     
  14. Jack Olson

    Jack Olson Mega Poster

    I have a Winchester model 50 that I got back in 1962 with plain barrel and I still hunt with it, there great guns.
     
  15. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    agree. problem is, no one wants old things anymore. I got a safe full of them just sitting, not being enjoyed by others.
     
  16. Jack Olson

    Jack Olson Mega Poster

    Every one has to have the latest and greatest, I'm old and like good ones they used to make.
    You don't need a vent rib to break birds.
     
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