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I was surfing the internet the other day and ran across an article that was titled Top 10 American Shotguns (or something like that). The author listed LC Smith as one of the top ten, but what caught my eye was the statement that LC Smith was the only US maker that made shotguns with sidelocks.
I know this is not a true statement as I can name a few myself. Just out curiosity what other US shotgun makers made a hammerless sidelock shotgun?
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Baker, Meriden, Crescent come immediately to mind...Geo
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Wasn't the Lefever's just a side plate?
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Add Waverly Arms to the hammerless sidelocks. There were many hammer sidelock makers.
Early Lefever and Tobin were hybrid sidelock/sideplated guns with only the sears mounted to the plates.
H&A, Iver Johnson and Davenport were sideplated boxlocks.
Last edited by John E; 09/25/17 11:06 AM.
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Clark and Schneider and David Kirkwood
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Ya, pretty much. Having sears mounted on the plates by no means qualifies a gun as a sidelock.
Kirkwood, Schneider, Golcher, etc weren't truly manufactured here were they?
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I think Sneider was made here. They had several sidelock designs. My Kirkwood has a Brit sourcing and Golcher , if you mean Thomas Golcher or one of the more modern Golchers, seem to be German from Lindner/Daly. Older Golchers, by other names, were parts suppliers, mainly from Britain.
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J.C. DANE, Lacrosse Wisc. Made hammer guns. Did he build any hammerless?
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