Tom: Well...who can't use a little more romance in their lives, eh? I just didn't realize that "romance" was what I was dealing with here. The other thought that, sadly, keeps going through my mind is what my paternal grandfather (& my namesake) would occasionally churn out... "There's no fool like an old fool".

FWIW: I've read more-deeply into Crudgington & Baker's book and learned a bit more about this action. T. Saville's patent number 1559 of 1864 seems to be origination of this particular system, with the authors speculating that Lang's then purchased said patent somewhere along the way, which might account their (Lang's) patent claim on the action of this gun. There was also talk about how much work was being performed in this period that converted pinfires to what became the now-standard centerfire system, so...a very "transitional" period indeed. The authors also allayed some of my fears by mentioning that they had actually used a gun with this type of action and were fairly pleased with it...

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Last edited by Lloyd3; 05/17/23 03:46 PM.