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Posted By: AaronN Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/15/18 11:51 PM
Took my new 10g out for a photoshoot yesterday.













Posted By: Tinker Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/16/18 01:57 AM
Nice looking gun.
Have you shot it yet?
Posted By: Steve Nash Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/16/18 02:44 AM
Wonderful pictures, great gun.

What kind of set-up do you have to take such excellent pictures?

Thanks for sharing them.
Posted By: ellenbr Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/16/18 09:25 AM
Hum, lovely Boar on the straight-hand stock. The Belgian marks are worn so I wonder if the retail house Brun-Latrige à Saint-Étienne(Loire), Maison Fondée 1836, actually added some effort or just retailed it? Would a 10 bore have been rare for a French offering?


Cheers,

Raimey
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Fine pictures. I wonder if your 10 bore is a relatively light gun, compared to most 10 bore centerfires. A couple of 10 bore pinfires I have handled have been in the mid 7# range. Would that be the norm ?
Posted By: Hal Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/16/18 11:31 PM
Thank you very much for the link to your wonderful collections!
I passed it on to a friend who collects miniature pistols, many of which are pinfires.
Posted By: AaronN Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/17/18 04:45 PM
Originally Posted By: Steve Nash
Wonderful pictures, great gun.

What kind of set-up do you have to take such excellent pictures?

Thanks for sharing them.


Most of the things I shoot are smaller than the long guns, such as pistols, cartridges, cartridge boxes, etc.



All of those and any detail (closeup) shots I’ve posted of the shotguns I shoot in a MyStudio VS36 tabletop studio. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079LLFJWM

I also have extra lighting. Lots and lots of light is really the key. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SHJJV4/

I actually did a blog post recently that kind of shows both of these in action. https://whitebackground.photography/2018...ite-background/

And this works fantastic for pistols because they’re small enough to fit inside the studio and I can actually suspend them from the ceiling and photograph them so that they look like they’re just floating with no shadows or anything.

Since pistols and cartridges have been the main thing I’ve been photographing for years, all of my equipment is catered to them. I use a lot of macro lenses which works fantastic for close-ups but gave me another issue on photographing the shotguns.

With a macro lens I have to be so far away!



This is obviously inconvenient so I bought a new 24mm lens to go with my Canon 80D and can now fit a shotgun in frame from about 4 and a half feet above it.



Now I can set up this background outside with plenty of natural light and position a little extra light to help shadows and darker areas and get a good picture!



Hopefully next year I am redoing an indoor studio space to have 12 foot wide space for photographing anything with a white background.

So hopefully this gives a decent idea of how I photograph these!
Posted By: AaronN Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/17/18 05:07 PM


Then also use extra lighting and touchups in Photoshop even in shots that may look like they are just straight out of a camera with no thought.

Posted By: Steve Nash Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 10/17/18 06:57 PM
Thank you very much, very informative! I appreciate your taking the time to respond in detail. I look forward to seeing more of your pinfire photos!
Posted By: AaronN Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 11/04/18 08:39 PM
Originally Posted By: Daryl Hallquist
Fine pictures. I wonder if your 10 bore is a relatively light gun, compared to most 10 bore centerfires. A couple of 10 bore pinfires I have handled have been in the mid 7# range. Would that be the norm ?


I Finally got around to weighing this thing. It is right about 7 pounds.
Thanks, Aaron. I think I’ll weigh some other gauges and see how they compare with similar gauges in centerfires. Does anyone have a 24 gauge centerfire to weigh ?
I weighed several pinfires today and since Aaron's 10 ga and my 10 ga. Richard Jeffery weighed in the lower 7 pound range, I expected other pinfires to be relatively light compared to British and European centerfires of the period. I did not find the other pinfires to be really light guns. Here's what I saw.
All French and Belgian guns had variations of the Lefaucheux action. I guess the extra light 10 ga. pinfires mentioned are not the standard.

Bissell [England] 8 gauge, 8 pounds 8 oz.
Harkom [Scotland[ 12 ga, 7 pounds 2 oz.
Sneider [USA] 12 ga, 7 pounds 14 oz.
French no name , high quality 16 ga, 6 pounds 6 oz.
Lefaucheux [Belgium/France] 16 ga. ,7 pounds 7 oz.
Le Page [Belgium/France] 16 ga. , 6 pounds 14 oz.
Claudin [Belgium/France]14 ga., 6 pounds 13 oz.
Belgian no name, 24 ga. ,6 pounds 7 oz.
Posted By: 2-piper Re: Ernest Bernard - 10g Pinfire Shotgun - 11/09/18 10:27 PM
I weighed my W&C Scott & Son 12 gauge pinfire today. The scale I weighed it on is a balance beam & quite accurate, but only graduated to ¼ lb. It just topped 7 lbs, probably between 7 lb 1 oz & 7 lb 2 oz as it was closer to 7 than 7¼. This is a bar in wood with keyed forend so wasn't in the mood to take it apart to get closer. According to Mr Crawford, its an A grade & he estimates between 1863 & 18/65 as to build date. Top lever opening was built under a Matthews Patent. Barrels measure 29 13/16" by tape measure. Has no appearance of having been cut. Both barrels are cylinder bore.
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