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Hello Jaime, I believe this is the gun mentioned and it looks like a 12 bore:  JC
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I don't recall if the article I mentioned was written by Roger Barlow or not. The gun itself was on display in a Belgian Muesem & was not in the hands of the author whomever it was. This would of course agree with what Ted said, I was thinking an earlier date, but could well be wrong on that as I don't recall seeing more than one such feature. I also was thinking at least a 16 & quite possibly a 12, definitely larger than a 28. Roger did write extensively about using a 28ga Darne, but it was just a 2-shooter. I also recall an article of his entitled one, two, three, four; in which he described a shotgun having each of those numbers of bbls. I don't recall the one & two now, but I seem to recall the three was a Dickson & the four a Lancaster.
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A couple of years ago I visited Connecticut Shotgun Mfgr and saw a SXS express rifle under construction for a customer. The barreled action was made, if I remember correctly, in Switzerland
The action was a variation of this Darne photo - neat idea.
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Geno, Miller, et. al., Here's the American Rifleman article. Regards, Tim   
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Tim;
That is indeed the article I remembered, thanks for the post. When I stop & think about the date it is within a month of being 33 years now & my issue likely arrived in Jan anyway. I see that it is indeed a 16ga. Now I wouldn't mind having one of those at all.
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Hunting with that, would definately spur conversation with the Game Warden.
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Tim, thank's for the article. 16G version looks not pregnant  Guess 20G would look just fine. Unfortunatly there is no maker name in the article, just said Belgian.
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Tim,
Thanks for sharing. Interesting article. I would love to see this interesting gun in action.
Postoak,
Good observation! I think that conversation would not be pleasant.
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Postoak;
Not familar with the Texas laws, but here in TN it could be used on anything except birds covered by the federal migratory laws, thus no waterfowl or doves. It could be used for anything else. In all honesty in over 50 years of use I have just never felt handicapped by having only two shots, but one of these would just be neat to have.
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There is nothing disturbing to use 2 or 3 cases in such guns depending on local law.
I can use "cartrige belt", no limits.
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