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This post got me thinking about a newer addition to my accumulation that I picked up at the NE SXS event at Hauseman's last June. it is a very stout G. E. Lewis British single barrel 12 gauge that is Nitro proved for 1 1/2 ounces and has a 3 inch chamber with a 32 inch Improved Modified choked barrel. It weighs a hefty 8 lbs. 8.4 ounces but has great balance and feels lighter.

It is a single side lock hammer gun and what I read is a Dumoulin style firing pin/plunger system. Non ejector/extractor. It also has two small ivory beads on the receiver for aid in aiming in low light, there is no rib.

I have had good success smoking clays with it but have not had it out for actual hunting yet. I actually shoot it pretty well.

Stan, I also have a Sarasqueta Zephyr 10 gauge, but I Have the true sidelock SXS version. I hits like Thor's hammer with 3.5 inch Bismuth 2's and 4's.

Here's Baikal MP18 20 ga. When a buddy retired, I gave it to him. This was the first bird I shot with it over 10 years ago. Gil

My current Baikal MP18:


And campero, this one will knock your socks off. Here's Chilean Pato with his Baikal single-shot. It is indeed the Indian, not the arrow. This was posted years ago at
doublegun by JayCee from Chile.

In 2014, Terry sent me the below photo of his 10 ga. Greener. Gil

Thanks for pictures and words! Beautiful guns! I'm looking for a 20 or 28 ga for clay shooting, but is difficult to find one similar to mine.

Parabola, what a pity you couldn't shoot comfortably with the E. Green single shot. I'm lucky cause I can shot every 28/70 cartridge I want with Milady.

Gil, yes, is the Indian and I hope to find many wild species to reinforce my "one shot, one chance" philosophy.

16-bore by Thomas Seymour of London, converted from percussion. Non-rebounding lock, 2 1/2" chamber, twist barrel, nitro re-proof.

This is the Springfield Model 1929 single 16 with 30” barrel that I mentioned last August in the Priceless thread that has been biding its time in the back of the safe waiting for the grandkids to get old enough to start enjoying it. Typical gun that you'd find standing behind the kitchen door in a midwest farmhouse of my youth. The garden was usually out the backdoor and the mother of the house could keep an eye on it from the window over the sink. When a groundhog was spotted among the rows she would reach behind the door, thumb back that hammer and slip the muzzle out the screendoor. Problem solved.

Campero,

Diggory Hadoke has recently posted a YouTube video featuring a double 12 bore Wiggan and Elliott patent double hammer gun.

It was seller’s remorse at having parted with the .410” William Moore and Gray (it had gone to a collector in Switzerland when I asked about buying it back) that was a major factor in prompting me to buy May Greener’s .410 converted rook rifle at Holts a while back.

That and I didn’t really expect my bid at just over bottom estimate to romp home!

Awesome guns guys. Thanks for sharing. Any more?

Beautiful lady, Parabola! I'm interested in other rook rifle converted to a small gauge too, but I don't know if patterns of this guns are good. What do you think?

Yes, Jimmy, hope to see more single barrel guns!