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I love the green man: very distinctive and unusual.
A nice pinfire for my battery has eluded me for years.

Thanks everyone for your comments. Daryl - unfortunately it isn't mine but belongs to a friend. He was thinking of selling it but seems to have changed his mind after all the very positive comments. He brought it down to the shooting ground where he let me have a go with it. It handles very well and broke both the driven targets off my high tower very convincingly. Those old guys knew how to make a gun handle well. I am however in the process of getting a Perrins pin fire restored to working order. Some of you may have seen the photos I posted some time ago of the really nice 14 bore pin fire which was missing it's hammers and someone had attempted to convert it to centre fire and given up. Well we found a set of hammers which with a little adjustment will hopefully work and look right. An engineering friend of mine is doing the work and is going to make some brass cartridges for it. I then have to get it entered on my shotgun certificate before firing it. As soon as I have it back and in working order it needs the engraved name and address re doing and the barrels browning and she should be ready. Hopefully for the start of the next game season which is only about 10 months away here in the UK( we still have a month and a half before the end of this one)
Hope you all have a good Christmas and get lots of long thin presents which will go bang!
John

Beautiful Dougall double....love it. TRW, huge thanks for the history on the Dougall clan... I have one that I feel fortunate to have found. What great workmanship.

4 pin bridle, rebounding lock. That's a best Stanton all right.
JD Dougall was a great inventor and gunmaker.
He was instrumental in popularizing the centre fire, break open gun.
And of course, he had his slide and tilt patent.

His books are certainly worth a read as well.

I own a very similar gun #3284 ca 1874.
It was made in Scotland for a murky individual in St Louis, MO, went to Texas, then Paris, and is now in California. That's quite a trip.

Dougall would advertise the grade on some of his guns. The one I have is graded "Highest quality" on the action, barrels, etc.

I'll post pics when I can.

Best regards,
WC-

Hmmm....that is interesting data. I just checked mine and found that it's a little newer than yours and it's also marked HIGHEST with the Prince's crest. How did you get the records on yours? Can you find any history on mine?

Wow: I'm pretty sure that wasn't engraved on just any old gun...

WoW x 2 how good is that stock head & oil free.
O.M

Brit guns always knock my socks off whenever I see their workmanship. I knew I should have bought that William Evans way back when at that shop in Sharpsburg.

"These doubles are clumsy, I might as well keep my Stevens."

"Here, try this one."

I'll never forget shouldering that Brit nor what he said. The expression on my face made the gunsmith laugh and he said, "Yea, I know, a leaf falls off a tree and a Brit gun wants to point at it........That's how they build them."

Agree with your point above.....this one fits as though it's an extension of my body...

Kcordell, that example of yours bears the crest for the Prince of Wales. If it does have a Royal provenance then you have a real gem. With the age of the gun the then Prince of Wales would have gone on to become King Edward VII. Certainly worth looking into. Lagopus.....