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I am curious about one early statement. He said it was a "SxS but built like an O/U." What did he mean? Was he referring to the single trigger? He was probably referring to the stock dimensions of the gun and its likelihood of shooting high in comparison to the game guns of the day
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When competitors saw that stock, there must have been a collective "gulp'. Gil
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I like how they referred to it as a "Side to Side".
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It is unlikely that anyone has won a national skeet championship with a full and full choked gun. He obviously shot another gun or this gun with another set of barrels. Screw chokes, I hope not.
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It is unlikely that anyone has won a national skeet championship with a full and full choked gun. He obviously shot another gun or this gun with another set of barrels. Screw chokes, I hope not. According to Mike Yardley. ,who I think would know , he used the Webley 400 for all his clay pigeon shooting and all his game shooting. I have never heard mention of a separate open choked set of barrels and if this was the case they surely would have been mentioned at some point in the discussion of his successes , perhaps you have a source of such information to back up your conclusion.
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[quote=eightbore]
According to Mike Yardley. ,who I think would know , he used the Webley 400 for all his clay pigeon shooting and all his game shooting. I have never heard mention of a separate open choked set of barrels and if this was the case they surely would have been mentioned at some point in the discussion of his successes , perhaps you have a source of such information to back up your conclusion. In the video, David called it a Webley 700. However, if it was built in 1921, it wouldn't be a model 700. The shotgun in the video looks like it has the Screw Grip rib extension. More likely is a customized Proprietary Model 400. TC
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[quote=eightbore]
According to Mike Yardley. ,who I think would know , he used the Webley 400 for all his clay pigeon shooting and all his game shooting. I have never heard mention of a separate open choked set of barrels and if this was the case they surely would have been mentioned at some point in the discussion of his successes , perhaps you have a source of such information to back up your conclusion. In the video, David called it a Webley 700. However, if it was built in 1921, it wouldn't be a model 700. The shotgun in the video looks like it has the Screw Grip rib extension. More likely is a customized Proprietary Model 400. TC It was a 400 and was described as such in the Mike Yardley article in DGM’s link earlier
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It is unlikely that anyone has won a national skeet championship with a full and full choked gun. He obviously shot another gun or this gun with another set of barrels. Screw chokes, I hope not. The book “Successful Shotgunning” author F. Blakey page 50 describes Percy’s gun as a Webley and Scott side by side “choked full and full and he used it for skeet, trap and all his live bird shooting” Edit to add Mike Yardley’s book Clay Pigeon Shooting : A History. Page 7 has a full page photograph of Percy Stanbury at the Skeet Championship meeting Northolt Middlesex, in September 1949 showing his shotgun to E T Peacock ,a fellow competitor, the gun appears to be his 30 inch barrelled Webley.
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I was thinking about those tight chokes and the Brits going to steel shot, but this video must have been just before that transition. I looked up the shells and they were described as having very hard shot containing antimony.
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Thing of it is with the hundreds of British BLNE guns out there, Anyone could configure Mr Stansburys gun for themselves. It would be a bullet proof shooter.
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