doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Initial Nitro Proof date - VL&D Damascus Francotte

January
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Who's Online Now

7 members (85lc, Jtplumb, ithaca1, Ian Forrester, JBG, 1 invisible), 438 guests, and 3 robots.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

Forum Statistics

Forums10

Topics39,826

Posts566,257

Members14,623

Most Online9,918
Jul 28th, 2025

Print Thread

Re: Initial Nitro Proof date - VL&D Damascus Francotte JohnM #328686 06/19/13 08:56 AM
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 11,574 Likes: 167 Iowa L. Brown Sidelock
L. Brown Sidelock Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 11,574 Likes: 167 Iowa	Nitro proof on Belgian guns dates from 1891. All nitro proofmarks carry a rampant lion. Initially, an abbreviation for the powder was underneath the lion, like EC, SCH for Schultze, etc. Starting in 1903, that mark was replaced by a rampant lion over PV (for poudre vive, or smokeless) on all nitro-proofed Belgian guns.

Entire Thread
Subject	Posted By	Posted
Initial Nitro Proof date - VL&D Damascus Francotte	JohnM	06/18/13 06:18 PM
Re: Initial Nitro Proof date - VL&D Damascus Francotte	L. Brown	06/19/13 01:56 PM

Link Copied to Clipboard

Updated every minute of everyday!

Copyright (c) 1993 - 2024 doublegunshop.com. All rights reserved. doublegunshop.com - Bloomfield, NY 14469. USA These materials are provided by doublegunshop.com as a service to its customers and may be used for informational purposes only. doublegunshop.com assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in these materials. THESE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. doublegunshop.com further does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within these materials. doublegunshop.com shall not be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits, which may result from the use of these materials. doublegunshop.com may make changes to these materials, or to the products described therein, at any time without notice. doublegunshop.com makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. This is a public un-moderated forum participate at your own risk.

Note: The posting of Copyrighted material on this forum is prohibited without prior written consent of the Copyright holder. For specifics on Copyright Law and restrictions refer to: http://www.copyright.gov/laws/ - doublegunshop.com will not monitor nor will they be held liable for copyright violations presented on the BBS which is an open and un-moderated public forum.

Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.0.33-0+deb9u11+hw1 Page Time: 0.401s Queries: 17 (0.380s) Memory: 0.7915 MB (Peak: 1.9025 MB) Data Comp: Off Server Time: 2026-01-26 17:20:30 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS