Originally Posted By: Terry Lubzinski
Another Tolley. This is their "Altro" model which was marketed as a combination waterfowl and live pigeon gun. A 3" BLE circa
1905-10 which is proofed for 4 Tons /in sq.It is alive and well and yesterday afternoon I took it out for some fresh air and it accounted for 8 snow geese.I hope yours gives you similar pleasure.





Very nice gun.

One comment concerning the "tons" proofmarks: They refer to the service pressure of the load to be used in the gun, not the proof pressure. It wasn't until the British switched to metric proofmarks in the 1980's (850 bar etc) that there was a proofmark that actually indicated proof pressure rather than referring to the service load appropriate for the gun, either in terms of "tons per square inch" or actual shot charge.