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I don't know what it was.

Ithaca made a pistol-gripped double with 10 and 12 inch bbls called the "Auto and Burglar" for a while right before GCA34 stopped them {GCA34, a Democrat-administration Gun Control measure that initiated gun registration and truly stripped Americans of the Right to Bear the only arms that matter...}.

Anyway, check this out pretty interesting. Haven't read it yet but it looks worth printing:

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/puckett/MillerShotgun.pdf

By the way, a few years ago I bought a cheap H&R 12 gauge shotgun from K-Mart. It was actually stamped "Marlin".

Anyway, I started lopping it off from the original 28 inch bbl and then when it reached about 20 inches, swapped the standard butt for a youth butt. That flyweight tipped the scales at about 4 1/2 lbs and would plumb wake you up and put you to sleep again when you sent a 3" mag charge of #1 buck down range! Wow...

Anyhow, I carried it along on elk hunts on a sling and shot some grouse, then decided to let the hacksaw go again. I stopped at 18 or so inches to be TOTALLY legal {due to the slightly shorter youth stock to make OAL legal}.

Unmitigated bad news. The patterns with grouse loads literally evaporated, with huge gaps and "holes" in them. I shot "at" two grouse with that gun and watched the shot strike all around the bird {sitting on the ground} and then watched the bird fly off to parts unknown. I then patterned the gun and found out why. clumps of shot were all I got. Why? Who knows.

I stuck the adult stock back on it {handy to have a youth stock around} and sold the gun.

Even with the "bad-length" barrel on it, at bank teller distances it would have been fairly decisive to be sure.

{BTW: Yogi, yer all right. Keep reading on 'Bama, mull it over and pull the "Mc" lever when you are in the booth on Tuesday.

'Nuff said from me.

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