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16 gauge with 65mm chambers, English stock, swamped rib, and 27" barrels. Old crappy pad, which will most likely need replaced, gun is triple proofed, good case colors, very tight, with decent figure in the wood. Checkering is still pretty good, but there is an old scratch on the side of the stock. VERY lightweight gun. There is some shallow pitting in the bore and I've considered sending this off to get honed, but figured I'd see if anyone would be interested in it as is first. $900 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/0Zkc9Sl.jpg)
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Stock dimensions? With and without pad, please.
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I haven't seen many Darnes with the case coloring still looking as fresh as yours. Decent wood, too. I had a 16 R10 that I sold last year that had it's sliding action re-blued which isn't Kosher. Gil
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Gil,
The lowest grade Francisque Darne gun was cataloged as having blued action and barrels. I have kept my eyes open for 40 years trying to find one, to no avail.
The same catalog advertised a version of the guns being available in 10 gauge, same deal, have looked for years, no dice.
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Ted:
I have a 10 gauge Darne with 2-7/8 inch chambers.. I think Tim Carney had one, too, although I'm not sure he still does.
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The more I know about 10 gauge Darne guns, the more I believe they were one offs that were built for somebody with a bunch of money, or, by guys who worked in the trade, and did it because they could.
They are very hard to turn up. Paul Bruchet, who started working at Darne in 1964, had never seen one. Neither had his son.
The barrels, sliding breech, and bottom metal were going to have to be fitted by somebody with considerable talent. On top of the regular considerable talent of building the rest of the Darne.
That was the main reason the Bruchets never pursued it.
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Stock dimensions? With and without pad, please. Currently SPF on another site. Thanks guys
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Ted:
The odd thing about my 10 gauge Darne is its weight. It weighs only 7 pounds 3 ounces. I don't know much about European shotgun ammunition from the period in which it was made (probably somewhere between 1890 and 1910 based on its markings), but I cannot imagine that there was much in the way of 1-1/8 ounce or even 1-1/4 ounce 10 gauge loads back in the day. It's certainly an interesting piece of history, though, and I enjoy shooting it with 1-1/16 ounce reloads using RST hulls.
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