Let's see some pic's of your SxS's & O/U's

Felix Sarasqueta O/U 12ga fine scroll receiver :D

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Well none of these are mine yet I'm still working on convincing my wife it makes perfect sense to re-mortgage the house to get just one here are some pics from a trip to James Purdey & Sons Ltd that I took while in the UK last year.

If you ever get the chance this shop as well as the others nearby, William Evans, Holland & Holland, Beretta Gallery are all in one little area near Bank Street in central London it's a day well spent touring around these shops.



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They even let us handle the merchandise, this was a highlight for me as I was absolutely blown away at how welcoming the people in the Purdey shop were. We spent a good 2 hours in the shop talking with the staff and they took us through the whole process of how you go about ordering a Purdey and getting fitted for the gun etc...we were allowed to look through the old order books from the early days up until today they still take the orders down in these massive books by hand.
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This last shot is of "The Long Room" where the founders used to run the Purdey business. Purdey is now run by a large conglomerate but the store and staff stick very close to the traditional ways they were founded on.

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We haven't had any pinfires yet, so here is one by Christiansen of Copenhagen plus a double flinter that I am working on. The flinter looks better in photos that in life. I found with pinfires, they are difficult to shoot because the hammers are close together and stick up in front of your eyes even when cocked. My centerfire hammer guns, the hammers are farther apart and down out of sight when cocked

cheers mooncoon

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rthook said:
That flinter looks great. Where did you fine that and is there a makers name on it.
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It was made by Greenwood of Leicester. Die Neue Stockel lists him as being in business in Leicester from 1817 - 1820 although conceivably he could have been in business before and after that date. I bought it in a local gunshow. It had been converted to percussion then the drums removed and hammers lost plus some stock damage and most bizarre, someone had cut 1" off of another shotgun stock complete with buttplate and fitted that to the Greenwood stock. For the time being, at least, I intend to keep the original stock. I had to chase out the threads where the drums used to be, to get to fresh metal and you can see how deeply the original pans had been removed. I am guessing that snail type bolsters might have been somehow screwed in but hard to visualize quite how because the breaches are recessed to make the gun thinner accross the breach. Perhaps because of their early date (relative to the use of damascus in british barrels) the damascus pattern in the barrels is very plain and seems to be made of relatively few pieces in the skelp or spiral strip

cheers mooncoon


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rthook said:
Did you do the convervion back to flint? What is the condition of the bores are they good enough to shoot? What ga. is it?
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I did the conversion myself, although there is still a bit of tweaking to do. I welded up the deep notches then silver soldered material in for the pans. I used 1/2" plate for the pans with a bit of weld bead for added material on the fences. Right hammer was a rough sand casting from Dixie and the left was 1/2" plate with some weld bead in the area of the jaws plus about 6 hours with a file. Frizzens are rough sand castings from Dixie and I had to case harden them. For some funny reason without casing they hardened in a very patchy fashion.
Bores are shootable and I have shot the gun. There was a bit of a learning curve; the pivot arms on the frizzens have to be as long as possible so that the pan covers clear the recessed breaches as the frizzen opens and I have to move the left frizzen for that reason. Also the tumblers had unusually long noses or arms connecting them via a stirrup link to the mainspring and I had to make a new tumber with a shorter link and arm to speed up the hammer/#### and flint to get it to spark.
Almost forgot; the gun is 16 guage and quite light. A double flint is something that I have wan't for many years and now finally have one :>)

cheers mooncoon
 
Here is the first bird shot with my Chapuis 28, today. I used Federal Gold Medal Target load in 8.5 in the first barrel and Winchester #5s in the second. This bird was shot with the first barrel.

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Regards,

henry;)
 
hnachaj said:
Here is the first bird shot with my Chapuis 28, today. I used Federal Gold Medal Target load in 8.5 in the first barrel and Winchester #5s in the second. This bird was shot with the first barrel.

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Regards,

henry;)
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Sir, you own a piece of art. Lucky you!!!
Congrats.

Where did you buy it if I may ask? Price range?
 
I know René Chapuis since the early 80s. I have visited his plant in St Bonnet le Chateau which is near St Étienne. He bought the Manurhin revolver and pistol line from FN. With it came all the new cnc machining. It took me 2 months to convince the sales manager to make me a 30 inch version of the new round body. I finally told him to speak with René. The French have an atitude that: This is what we make, this is what you want and will buy!

As it is a one and only one, and I bought it directly from the plant, I cannot devulge the pricing. Chapuis is available fro Griffin & Howe in the US and in Canada at some dealers. I think that Ellwoods Epps handled a few.

Here is the website:

http://www.chapuis-armes.com/

Also look in the French versionof the website as there are more pictures.

Regards,
Henry;)
 
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