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Today at the Southern Side x Side there was a vendor (ACG Ammo) who was selling BPS (Turkey) 12 ga 2 1/2 inch 24g 6,000 psi shotshells(do not know the velocity) for $140.00/flat of 250.

thank you, fab500.....

the earlier lunette gun has a unique (at least to me) stock - lower at "comb" than at heel, with an "ambidextrous" checking pattern....and viewed from the side, an almost "art deco" appearance. i have seen many photos of the lunette guns, but have never had the opportunity to handle one.

best regards,

tom

Plenty of Foxes there. I looked at an A Grade 20 bore today

I shoot 14 gauge components from Circle Fly in my 15 gauge MH Blood ML. My gun was made in Memphis, TN with Osborne barrels. It's a left handed SxS restored for me by MV Highsmith late of Memphis.

That’s great!
Excellent pre reg

I hope 🤞 Mother Nature cooperates for you.

Make sure you post pics.

Thanks for the photos. Nice case. Very unusual arrangement. When I first saw it and asked for pictures I was thinking it appeared to be a hinged case. This one all the more interesting.

That's me! I use them on field birds. I do not in the woods. Different strokes I guess.

The UK sporting goods business is similar in function to that in the U.S. They have to stock what sells.

You may stumble upon some trinkets in a shop that you like, but every shop knows where the good stuff needs to go to get a turn.
There’s a fishing/shooting shop in Edinburgh that has been there for ever, ….sorry, name eludes me.
Vintage book stores with all sorts of old titles.

You can find piles of Spanish boxlocks in many gun shops, low grade hammer guns, and some SLNE’s.
Half the fun is just looking at your itinerary and calling the little sporting goods shops in the town you are visiting.

In Edinburgh, (I confess I mostly confine my time to relaxing at “Number 11”, and eating haggis at “The World’s End”) I always touch the statue of Adam Smith, like a gladiator returning to the Colosseum.

It’s a good town to explore but finding vintage firearms will be a challenge.

Note: if you travel through Dunblane, the church has magnificent wood carvings ( best I’ve seen in the western world) All done by two brothers before the Great War.

Builder, thanks.

Hinge pin free, again.



Best,
Ted

PS
Fab,

Cela fait beaucoup de canards. Trop de canards !

Might have gotten lost in my prior ramblings but all the software & security settings ARE NOT a substitute for judicious preemptive personal decisions.
If in doubt; Don't.
If totally oblivious & certain: consider darwinawards.com

BTW: NICE Gun!

I'm not normally a German gun guy but....I like it. Six pounds six makes for a useful gun afield and being a southpaw makes it interesting to me to see that cheekpiece.

Have you shot it yet?

Yeah it's the same idea. No idea if it was converted or made that way. But unlikely a pinfire cartridge would work with it.

I have a handful of these, some of which are US patents.


I did a short article on these some time ago, focusing on the pistol cartridges. This gun had an insert that allowed it to work also with pinfire cartridges. And some had a very tapered "pin" to allow it to work in existing 12mm revolvers:

I can understand why the scalloped ones would have problems. I think I always just liked the looks of a boxlock, too. But that's just me. I don't mean to run down or ridicule someone else's admiration for certain guns. If I have I apologize for that. As I said earlier, the eye of the beholder. And I respect that. Thanks.

Remington Society of America website forum. Ask in early shotguns subforum.

Thanks for your excellent investigative gunsmithing Dustin. To give credit where it is due, on the disassembly questions the person who responded to a post on passionlachasse.fr was FAB500.
https://www.passionlachasse.com/t40494-damon-petrik-superposes-demonter-larme

This is a historic line and surely will be consulted by others, who might acquire this French relatively unknown over here but classic and beautiful superposed shotgun in our country.

He is right next to my chair. He had a good day.

You can ask any price you want. Making a sale is an entirely different issue

I will sell you CCI BR2s at $300/1000, but not a penny less. Any takers? Did not think so.

Unfortunately the not cocking is the most common complaint.

You can try this:

maiso@wanadoo.fr

This is the last contact information I have for Michel, Grandson of the founder of the company. I last had contact in perhaps 2006 or so. He reads, writes and speaks English.

This was an address for the firm:

13 rue Clement Forissier, Saint Etienne

Since you likely won’t ever meet anyone who would argue with you about what the case label looked like, you could likely use the form from one of the catalogs. A graphic artist could probably work wonders with this:



Best,
Ted

Yes LK, the fact that it hit where it was aimed made me want to post it. Thanks.

Many tree slab cutters do the pressure injected resin technique to stabilize big table slabs.
It follows bug runs, cracks unseen,crevices,worm holes, etc.

I’ve seen some videos where it was done by vacuum and also by gravity.

A highly figured blank might really respond to the treatment.

I’d impregnate it with ebony black resin and see how it shaped up before I discarded it.

Partly out of curiousity, and partly because synthetic and semi synthetic stocks are much more acceptable today.

Buckstix’s recent post about a Sauer 8x57 taken into military service 1914/5 reminded me of this old veteran taken into service on the other side of the conflict at the same time.

It started life as a Model 1892 Steyr Mannlicher Romanian service rifle.

At some point prior to 1914 Daniel Fraser converted it to a stalking rife. He used the original military stock cut down to half length, added a longitudinal foresight dovetail for a caterpillar sporting foresight, a 3 leaf (all folding to clear the view for the Lyman cocking piece peep sight) express sight and cut a transverse dovetail for the Lyman sight at the back of the cocking piece.

The bolt handle, originally straight is curved down.

He marked the barrel “Shot and Regulated by” with his address and stamped a D. Fraser cartouche on the right side of the butt.

Then (note the British Government crossed flags Proof or Acceptance mark stamped partly over the NITRO PROOF mark on the barrel) it was taken into British military service.

A number of Mannlicher rifles in this calibre have been observed with these marks.

The late Tony Edwards, author of 4 volumes on British substitute standard Great War small arms, was unable to find any documentation on their purchases or deployment.

Theories include sniper use, sniper training or Royal Navy use to sink mines by trawler crews.

Hard to say if your barrels have been reblued at some point. The streak in pic #2 could have been there all along, and just became more evident as the barrel bluing thinned and wore over time.

I agree completely with Dustin on the need for proper barrel prep, should you decide to reblue them. With this gun, I think it would not hurt the value one bit. It would probably enhance the value. Cerrakote would be a great way to lower the value. So now you need to find someone who can do it right, and your new concerns are shipping both ways without loss or damage.

Well,

I found another ring assembly on eBay and bought it. This had a wider ring, and it was lower by 0.025" and it worked just fine to level the scope. I didn't adjust windage on this target because the group was so nice. I adjusted the scope to the left to center the group before putting away the rifle. I fired a total of 15 shots and recoil was very comfortable and could have shot more but ran out of time.