DGW 28 gauge

[Tim_IA]

Found one, probably paid a little too much, but I feel like that all the time anymore! I did sand down the little clam shell patch box and paint it black. Originally just pot metal and shellacked? This one is marked 13.4.

Can't wait to get it out and patterned!!

 

[NorthFork]

Found one, probably paid a little too much, but I feel like that all the time anymore! I did sand down the little clam shell patch box and paint it black. Originally just pot metal and shellacked? This one is marked 13.4.

Can't wait to get it out and patterned!!

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Oh dear Lord! I'm in love!

 

[azmntman]

Please post how it does, I may have a rifle bored smooth by MR Hoyt. I know Nathan from the UK has EXCELLENT luck with is lil .45.

 

[Hermit Tim]

These guns are better than some folks will say. They aren't top of the line but they are fun shooters. It'll make a squirrel just as dead as a NW trade gun. I've got the flint version. Nice little shooter ya got there.

 

[Sam squanch]

That old rusty yard frog sure likes it….

 

[ppg1949]

Tim_IA, I have a DGW 28 gauge also. Although marked 28 gauge on the barrel, I have talked to other members and theirs have run from 13.2mm to 13.9mm. Mine is marked 13.4mm and mic’d at .526. Or 32 gauge. So I would mic your bore if you are planning on buying wads and OP cards. I made the mistake of buying 28 ga supplies before putting a mic to the bore, lol. My stock was a crappy dark orange. So I sanded it and it had a deep dark wood underneath similar to your stock. The original wire ramrods are terrible but I made a wooden field ramrod for mine. It goes in the ramrod channel deep enough to snugly secure it but most of it hangs out to about an inch below the muzzle. I over paid for mine about 20 years ago but I wanted it as the DGW marked guns are hard to find. My buying price was $200. I shoot standard 28 gauge loads of 55 grains of whatever I have and 3/4 ounce of shot. Out to 20 yds it is good. It is my favorite woods gun because they are only about 3 1/2lbs and a very easy carry for an old man. And they are just plain fun to shoot. I have even shot .495 PRB with the same 55 grains but the “rabbit ear” rear sights leave a lot to chance. Good luck and have a lot of fun with it.

 

[87TT]

Haha. That is just like the first Muzzleloader I bought back in 1968! I paid $19.95 from an ad in the back of a Field and Stream magazine. I was 15 at the time but I can remember checking the box,"yes" I am 21, please send me this gun.
i still have it but since I had no idea how to clean it properly, I don't trust the breech any more.. My little brother bought the full stock 410 that cost $5 dollars more. He could save his money better than me.

 

[87TT]

Haha. That is just like the first Muzzleloader I o bought back in 1968! I paid $19.95 from an ad in the back of a Field and Stream magazine. I was 15 at the time but I can remember checking the box,"yes" I am 21, please send me this gun.
i still have it but since I had no idea how to clean it properly, I don't trust the breech any more.. My little brother bought the full stock 410 that cost $5 dollars more. He could save his money better than me.
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It was hell on rabbits and ground squirels too!

 

[Tim_IA]

Amazing how light weight these guns are! Hand checkered too, don't see that anymore on factory guns. I wonder what the years of production were on these?

 

[BillinOregon]

I had a cheap single from Dixie many years ago, too, but could swear it was more like a 12 gauge. My memory is it was made in India --long before the present Indian gun industry we all so thoroughly disagree about these days.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Those were the days! We have come a long way since those guns were made.

 

[Hermit Tim]

Those were the days! We have come a long way since those guns were made.

Yep. But I wish I had bought and stored 400 of them when they were that price. I'd be keeping GunBroker hot right about now...

 

[87TT]

I had to get my Mom to buy a can of DuPont powder for me and we used those plastic percussion caps that were made for cap guns. My measure was a sawed off 20 ga shell and used equal shot and powder loads with crumpled paper wads over and under the shot.

 

[Tim_IA]

This one was made in Spain, AMR, Antonio Marcus Reread. I can't find much about the company, mostly what I read here on the board.

 

[ZUG]

Back in 1968 or 69 I bought a 32 gauge breach loading barreled action from DWG for about $20.00 or less. It was in the white and rough. I had dreams of turning it into a fine SXS breach loader. Big dreams but little talent -- I put it aside and to this day I don't know what happened to it.

 

[godutch]

I had that same gun as my first m/l. I think I paid 14.50 for it. 'Late 60's. DGW

 

[centershot]

Nice little gun Tim, good luck with it! I'm curious about that ramrod, there's another section that attaches, right?

 

[Sam squanch]

The ramrod hole is drilled all the way to the butt plate. Hence the ramrod slides down past the lock area, looking like it’s too short.

 

[hanshi]

I think they are cool "loners" and kick around guns.

 

[NorthFork]

I think they are cool "loners" and kick around guns.

I think they are just plain cool game getters!