A friend popped in to the shooting ground with this J D Dougall with the London address. I am sure many of you will be familiar with the 'Lockfast' action, but it was the first I had seen and been able to shoot. It is in such wonderful condition that I thought I should share a few of the photos I took.
For any of you not familiar with this mechanism the barrels move forward slightly to unlock when the side lever is pushed down before dropping open. The other interesting feature is that the breach face has two 'bosses' which push into the back of the chambers as the mechanism is locked, securing the cartridges very firmly in place and preventing gas leakage. I understand that Dougall was an advocate of the pin fire mechanism and this gun certainly has the look of a pin fire. I am not sure if this is a conversion or it was built as a centre fire with the 'look' of a pin fire. Enjoy. John