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I just saw this Bonehill boxlock for sale at auction (morphy). For the life of me I can't figure out what "L" and "D" indicators would mean. Figured that certainly someone here would know. 
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Cocking indicators
Total guess: Locked & Discharged
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That seems like a good guess.
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I had a Bonehill just like that. I agree with Bsteele.
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Is it a single selectable trigger?
If so then might be Levo and dextro. (Organic chemistry was not wasted on me.) Sort of Latin for to the left and to the right.
Edit: should have paid more attention to the "double trigger" in title.
Last edited by JBLondon; 07/19/20 08:12 AM.
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MMmmm ? Then what is the little button near the L ?
My Simson Suhl DR has such buttons/pins on each side of the action and they indicate whether the action/hammers are cocked or fired.
Simson saw no need for a labelled pointer -- just pin in or pin out.
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MMmmm ? Then what is the little button near the L ?
My Simson Suhl DR has such buttons/pins on each side of the action and they indicate whether the action/hammers are cocked or fired.
Simson saw no need for a labelled pointer -- just pin in or pin out.
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MMmmm ? Then what is the little button near the L ? That little "button" near the L is the axle pin for the triggers. I agree that this a a cocking indicator on the hammer axle pin that points to L for locked (cocked in modern terminology) and D for discharged. Cocking indicators long ago went away on box lock guns but were retained on many side lock guns in the form of a mark on the hammer axle such as an engraved arrow, gold line (my AyA's), raised ridge (my wife's Grulla) or similar.
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MMmmm ? Then what is the little button near the L ?
My Simson Suhl DR has such buttons/pins on each side of the action and they indicate whether the action/hammers are cocked or fired.
Simson saw no need for a labelled pointer -- just pin in or pin out. Hmm, am quite familiar with cocking indicators but (as with your Simson) not with the D and L nomenclature. I was throwing out an idea in case left and right made any sense. Not so, obviously, if the other side of the action has the same device. Organic chemistry study may have been a waste after-all.
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[quote=crs]
That little "button" near the L is the axle pin for the triggers.
Not to be picky the that would be the sear pin, the trigger pin is located farther to the rear.
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