Help please !
I am trying to locate a Boss 12 bore Damascus SxS underlever hammer gun
Serial numbe 1267 . Any help will be appreciated.

The first pin-fire breech-loader built by Boss was number 1600, built in 1858, so all earlier numbers would be muzzle-loaders and not under-lever guns. Are you sure about that number?

Boss number 1833. Originally a single bite underlever pinfire built in 1860...Geo

May I ask what makes this Boss so special?

I would like to hear about the mystery of the early serial number. The more we study, the more we know.

Could it have been a muzzle loader converted to a Jones Underlever? There is a Reilly so re-done....SN 10354 which I've dated to 1857:

That was my first thought, I have owned a few of them.

Peter, contact Donald Dallas, he was loaned all the Boss records for writing his book, had them rebound for Boss and has had a enthusiastic approach to looking up Boss guns ever since. He might be able to help you with some info, maybe even come across it. ATB Toby

Thank you everyone .
Yesterday I actually shot Boss number 1266 which is as described . The owner Michael Russell would like to know the whereabouts of 1267 which used to belong to the family , but as been lost .

Can we please read one damn thread without you dragging some Reilly crap into it ?

I'd like to read one thread without yOu crapping all over it.

But, I suppose yOu can't keep yOur post count up like that.

If wishes were horses .....

SRH

Amen.


Best,
Ted

Don't you have a granpappy quail covey ground shooting story you'd like to brag about ?

How did it go...

My grandpsppy shot 16 quail with one shot when he shot a covey on the ground.

Dumb dumb dumb...

Need I say "MORE"....BOSS.....I am aPurdeyPerson' 1952 thru 1964 But I have a'lust' for more boss guns. I have 'Owned, Restocked. Re-built,Hunted with, Shot in Flyer-shootsfor the last 60yrs Have three on the bench at this time (re-built the single-trigger selector of the 'Only 16b Three barrel 14k gold spring Would like to know the Whereabouts of the gun these days? (Trevallion of Paddington,W2.

People had different thoughts about game and hunting back in the day, that today's thinking does not align with.

You remember the jackass that put the picture up, here, of a flock of dead turkeys he sluiced, a few years past?

That, was priceless stupidity. What was that idiots name?


Best,
Ted


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Any idiot can do it, I guess.

David, what do you think of the numbering conundrum? Could those two SN guns have been originally muzzle loaders and rebuilt into Jones U-L?

Argo ,
Buy and read 'Boss Guns' by Donald Dallas.
He explains most things . Except where number 1267 is.

I have a friend who has owned at least two Boss pigeon guns. They were magnificent! I presently own a very nice 1928 Boss in it's original oak and leather case. Imported here to NY to Abercombie & Fitch. The guy also had my friends Boss pigeon gun and a twenty bore made for him as well.
Boss guns handle like no other.