Colonel Sanders SxS (Pics)

[Sharptail]

Here's a genuine KFC boxlock, from before they got into the chicken business.

Of course, the KFC in this case indicates the Kawaguchiya Firearms Company of Tokyo, Japan. This early 1960's (??) example is a copy of the archetypical Birmingham Anson & Deeley boxlock. Well executed in both metal and wood fit, the gun weighs in at a hair under 6 1/2 lbs. The case colour hardening is quite nice, but the colours in the saved - for - the - web photos are a little bright on the blue end of the spectrum.

I think the good Colonel would have approved the use of this gun over southern plantation quail.

Sharptail

 

[marshall]

Ejectors even, what is the wood?
Looks very nice, If you want good yankee
stuff I have a nice stevens pump 12 I could trade
you for
B.Marshall

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

Very nice find.....appears to have been well maintained over the past years.

 

[dilly]

Extra Crispy!!!

 

[straightshooter]

Very nice find.....appears to have been well maintained over the past years.

The closeups show clearly that virtually every screw has been turned. Nice to see that not one of them was "butchered" in the process.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Looks good. The style & quality looks very much like my AYA.

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

The closeups show clearly that virtually every screw has been turned. Nice to see that not one of them was "butchered" in the process.

The point ocurred to me as well but then I thought better of it - due to some images that I had previously taken of a sxs that reflected distorted screwheads but wasn't the case at all when you looked at the gun in person.

 

[jimmyjazz]

Very nice, did you just get it?