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Tinker,
That is one dam beautiful hammergun you got there!. Please, please put up some more pics.
JR

John-


The hammer gun is a WR 16-bore double rifle (not straight-wrist though), quite a ripper.
It runs best with 5-1/2 or so drams of FFg
Relatively brisk recoil, glorious sound, and it's accurate.

Here's something with a better view of the little forend, and a nice cape (try to ignore the 'bolt trash')




It's companion is also a WR, from 40 or 50 years later, also quite slender.
More on the 16-bore

I don't think I'd try a perfect score on clays with it, but any way it goes I'm not wanting for more in the wood department at all.
I don't have anything against those who run BT forends on their guns and rifles, and I've seen a few slinky and slender ones that looked nice to me, but I just don't own a double that's not set up with a splinter forend.






Cheers
Tinker

And by the way, they do sell gloves here in Ohio. I even use them on occasion. But I can't see sweating through a leather glove onto the barrels of a gun when you can have a beautiful BTFE to hold onto. And I have yet to have someone tell me how they set a SXS into a gun safe without: (1) taking the chance of having the gun slip out of your hand because you tried to hold onto a skimpy little forend, (2)grabbing ahold of the barrels you just oiled or (3)grabbing the gun by the buttstock and taking the chance of having it fall into the safe, possibly onto another gun. Nope. No, practicality to them at all other than turning them into a woman's gun. Or possibly giving them to an ex-wife that you want to ridicule because she looks almost as hideous as it does. HA!!

Try putting them in "barrel down" Jimmy...and maybe you'll stop dropping them.

I don't even bring the forend along when I duck hunt with my Nitro Special. About all the forend does is collect water below the barrels.

I heAr it makes for a quick take down.

It's really quite simple Jimmy. Squirt a bit of Breakfree or your favorite rust inhibitor/lubricant on a quarter sheet of blue shop towell, wrap it around the barrel, grab the barrel where it is protected by the shop towell and put in the gun cabinet or safe. It takes longer to tell you about it than to do it.

It's getting pretty obvious here that he's not interested in hearing much besides the sound of his own voice.
Looks like a combination of self-loathing, alcohol, and a general threat to his sense of masculinity.

Meanwhile the rest of us remain able to own, shoot, and maintain our guns despite of the amount of timber screwed to the forend iron...



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Could be they don't use shop towels or rags in Ohio either, from the sounds of things. Sweat through a leather glove? Darn . . . we may have the living, breathing example of a "sweathog" here!

Yer think'n with yer dipstick Jimmy...