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Wondering Beard
09-19-2015, 12:29 PM
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a17376/folding-shotgun/

From the guys at Forgotten Weapons.

It's pretty cool.

LSP972
09-19-2015, 01:26 PM
CWO Swearengen goes into great detail about this amazing gun in Volume IV of his exhaustive work on fighting shotguns. It was truly ahead of its time.

I wish I had one.

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Sigfan26
09-19-2015, 01:38 PM
My boss has a Burgess. It's pretty damn cool (not sure if it's the folding model).

LHS
09-19-2015, 02:40 PM
I got to meet Ian and Karl at a recent match here in Phoenix. Nice folks. I have to admit, I'm jealous of Ian's job. He gets to play with all the coolest toys, including getting to shoot Elmer Keith's personal 4" pre-29. I was really happy to see that he's gotten a gig writing a weekly column for Popular Mechanics. Not only is it good for him, but it says something good about the public opinion of guns when there's a weekly gun column in Popular Mechanics.

1slow
09-19-2015, 07:08 PM
I remember an old article on the Burgess Folding Shotgun ( old Gun Digest I think) it showed a belt carrier to carry it folded and old ad copy featuring it. Great Idea.

Malamute
09-19-2015, 09:32 PM
I've seen the pictures of them being carried in the belt deal, I didnt realize it was essentially a quick draw shotgun. Very cool.

I know a couple guys with Burgess rifles, no shotguns that I recall. Would be fun to mess with one at least.

voodoo_man
09-20-2015, 08:52 AM
...sort of want....