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Whittington Epilogue: A good time was seemingly had by all. The weather was challenging at times (endless wind and a little rain) but lots of shooting still managed to happen. Missed some old friends but... made a few new ones.

Shot this big old Ithaca even better than I had anticipated. The tighter chokes limited me somewhat in close but seemed to work fine otherwise (& most shots there were at some distance).



This was at Kiowa Creek yesterday (at one of the more-interesting stations). The gun worked for me there as well.

Springtime in the Rockies!

Hi Lloyd,

Not a very recent video but if you have not seen it before it might well interest you?

Thank God for closed captions. I think they're talking about shotguns.

Parabola: not quite as heavy as mine but useful for all the same reasons. Neat! Thanks for finding this.

Parabola: Also my thanks to you for finding this interesting interview.

Eight years ago I bought a W. Jeffery 12 bore hammer gun, and after some research found that it was their "Farmer's Gun", with heavier 13 bore barrels, 2.5" chambers and zero engraving. Mine still has the original 30" barrels and it weighs in at 7 lbs 1 oz. Chokes are 1/8th and 3/4 , so it quite useable for game. The stock on mine was also an inch too short, so have added a longer butt plate in black.
I have fired 400 one ounce loads through it and it works fine. Many observers have never seen a hammer gun before; the more intelligent ones ask where the safety catch is...

HB

and they still are...

https://imgur.com/a/nYblwD3

Just skated out of trouble with this Baikal hammer gun. With less than 24 hours left on the timed sale and no bids on it I found myself pressing the button for the £2 opening bid.

Fortunately (the other residents of the cabinet might not have approved) a couple of other guys wanted it more and ran it up to a princely hammer price of £24.

The description intrigued me :- Ⓕ +VAT (S2) 12 bore Baikal Double Hammer, 28½ ins sleeved barrels, full & full, broad raised rib, 2¾ ins chambers, treble grip black action, 14½ ins pistol grip stock with sling swivels

It looked in fairly new condition, and I can’t envisage anyone having sufficient commercial or sentimental reasons to spend the cost of sleeving a gun like this. I wonder if the Proof House looked at the monobloc barrels and thought it had been sleeved.

Parabola: The new stuff just doesn't get it for me, but I can see why you'd venture a few bucks on this one.

I'm also noticing that almost all hammerguns (including this Baikal) are sidelocks. My Ithaca seems to be one of the few boxlocks I've seen.

Imgur has changed its layout, so in my last post (2 above) shows a link that will open but not the picture for immediate effect.

Any ideas how to get it to go back to working as before?

Lloyd, on this side of the pond it is most unusual ro find a pair of hammers that aren’t nestled up to a pair of lock plates.

I asked my software engineer son about this. Why when they get things working well do they have to “improve’ it so it no longs works? (He just smiled.)

I had the same problem with Imgur the last time I uploaded a picture. I clicked around a bit and found a place where I could choose to revert to the old procedure. Plus, they asked me why I preferred the old system. I told them.

Sorry I can’t guide you to it but give it a try. It’s in there.