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really nice looking gun and ejectors!
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That is a nice one, looks like overhanging sears and maybe-hard to tell from the pics, bushed pins ?
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Yes to the intercepting sears, no to the bushed strikers. 30" barrels, about 7lbs - it looked like a good candidate for SC and/or waterfowl.
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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Intercepting sears or overhead/overhanging sears? German guns can fool you that way. If you see a screw in that position on a Brit boxlock, you can be pretty sure it's intercepting sears.
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Thank you, Larry - you are correct, I tend to forget that distinction between Brit and German boxlocks. That point is further detailed in this link, which also discusses BSW shotguns: Kerner
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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I had a BSW 12 guage made in 1936 for awhile. It was a plain (except for the nice scalloped receiver and their foolish "Nazi duck" on the floorplate) boxlock extractor with original 2 3/4" chambers and pretty clearly intended for export: marked "Germany" with a semi-pistol gripped stock and slightly fuller-than-usual forend. 29.5" barrels choked full and fuller.
Had the name of an Armenian-owned gunshop in Salonika, Greece on the barrel. Always wondered how it found its way into the collection of the US Air Force officer from whom I bought it, but I never found out. He'd pounded it with years of heavy trap loads and US high base duck loads and it was slightly but noticeably off face, so I sold it to another guy who liked it enough to repair that.
Even the plain BSWs are nice guns.
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Even wartime (Gustloff-Werke) were very nice guns. Flying eagle with swastika brings tiny premium for sure just like US military marks on my 1941 Ithaca. Not bad at all for gun from famous bicycle and baby carriage maker. Superb value for ejector gun when compared to modern Merkel 47e. Sixty five or sixty seven millimeter chambers are no problem though typical choke combo might need some pro honing. Ammo is very easy to find I have shipment coming to my front door from Montana USA.
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Ammo is only a problem when you forget to take enough with you on a hunting trip. I remember running short of 28ga shells in the UP. Had a 20 along as well, but had been doing well with the 28. Most places in the boonies, all you can count on finding, for sure, are 12's and 20's.
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A box or two of standard Remington game loads from Walmart aren't going to hunt German made sxs shotgun. That is huge reason to own a 12 bore that is because the only 16s I have seen at Walmart were those in Green/yellow box. I would avoid green and yellow boxed Nitromags thats for sure.
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You answered yet another of my questions about the BSW-Suhl SxS 16 gauge shotgun that I have. Since it is light in weight, I was concerned that it might not be able to take the punishment of a round (or two) of sporting clays. I shoot low pressure, 7/8 ounce loads in 2-1/2 shells. You have made me confident that the gun will hold up well, that is unless I beat the heck out of it.
Thanks.
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