Originally Posted By: GLS
From Le fusil de chasse "Ideal" by Jean-Claude Mournetas:
Brass encased ball for left barrel which has rifling and a barrel reducer insert for the smooth bored right barrel and 8 mm bullet. There's some text I hope to have translated. Gil


i have taken delivery of the morphy gun on 4 march. general condition was actually better than the photos & description led me to expect. haven't had a chance to measure wall thicknesses, but my bore gauge says .722-3 with 40 thou constriction on left,(proofed at 18.3) and....

Last edited by graybeardtmm3; 03/06/20 12:23 AM.
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