John Mann has been urging my to register with this group for some
time and now that my gun has been commented on I though I would
reply
1. I can see no evidence of the of the chambers altered, if they have been it was early in the guns life, to open the chambers
to next gauge is not easily done.
2. the action face has pitting around the strikers of 10 gauge
cartridges showing that it has been heavily used as such
3. The scales used to weigh the gun have a resolution of 0.2 oz
the gun weighs 9lbs 11.2ozs brls weigh 5lbs 6.6ozs
4. I gave the od of the brls over the jug choke section as my
wall thickness gauge was giving variable results because of the
jug choking
5.the gun number is 1161
6.The stock was very poorly repaired when I acquired the gun
(repaired with a piece of bent 3/8 steel key stock and glued with some unknown grey glue that had not set, and the edges of the break had been heavily peened was a hammer) I cleaned up the
break and re inlet the two sides of the break together and then
glued it back together while held in a stock vise, then machined
the stock through the break to insert a glue wood spline
re inlet the action and trigger plate and refinished and chquered as needed
7.The action flats are marked with the makers name (Thos L Golcher) and number also with the following mark H.KLT inside
a oval the first and last are over stamped over some other letters the size of the oval is .250" long x .163high the letters and the oval a peer to be a one piece stamp applied when the gun was made, any ideas what it means? .
8. John Mann has seen the gun and says it was made by Linder possibly a 165 grade there are no Linder markers on the brls
Hope this information helps I was to busy to post earlier
SGH
