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Hi Mike and Russel, I assume that there was a transition period between roughly 1885-1895 where Scott guns came in an amazing variety of shapes, sizes,models, and options. The gun below is circa 1888 and as you can see has back action,bar-shaped locks, crystal indicators,Lever-grip third bite,ejectors, and damascus barrels.I use it regularly for sporting clays and waterfowl.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid,than open it and confirm.
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Terry, You continue to amaze. That does not appear to be Premier quality engraving but it has the triplex third bite and ejectors. Very nice. Now if you had only held onto the 8ga hammergun so I could talk you out of it...... Remember, if your guns ever need a southern home, I'll make room for them. On 'temporary' loan of course.
Mike
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I should rephrase that. The engraving quality is great, it was the amount of coverage and lack of game scenes that I meant to describe.
Mike
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Mike, You'll have to forgive me if the photos don't appear: Shown above is the Scott built gun with crystal indicators, steel barrels & ejectors. Here's a closer view. This is a rifle of course but shotguns with the same combination of features can be found. Above is another Scott built rifle - this time with damascus barrels & it's a more common non-ejector. This is ann earlier gun & dates from about 1884/5 Regards Russell
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great thread, i have a wc scott 12ga. monte carlo B no crystal indicaters,damascus, extractor i think it was built in 1892?it has the square crossbolt.double underlug i would like to find out mfg. date and value mc
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OK, Mc, you have given enough info to put the value around the same as your year estimate. You must give condition, measurements, and gauge if you want an estimate of price , and of course, the manufacturing date depends on a large extent to the serial number. You did not give the serial number as I see it. Can you publish some photos ? That would help.
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Russel,
The pics worked just fine. Thanks!
If you compare your pictures to the one I posted (w/ pheasants) you can see that the locks are different though both are back action. More importantly the cocking mechanism is different. The earlier back action like I pictured had the cocking rods w/ hooks that come up through the action flat. I imagined that fitting a workable ejector mechanism to that action would be difficult and it is likely why your rifle has different locks.
I'll try to get some pictures of what I so poorly described posted over the weekend.
Thanks again.
Mike
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BTW - What caliber is the rifle and whose name appears on the rib?
Mike
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monte carlo B damascus 30 inch 12ga. 507xx i have no idea how to post pics. it has pitting on the action. i have a photo that shows it.condition is fair to good.thanks mc
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Wow - I've never seen such early hammerless Scott DRs. Those are very cool.
Thanks for sharing.
OWD
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