Fourth Double Gun Classic (Side by Side Get Together)

VictoryXC said:
I will have a spare SxS or two along that you are welcome to use.
Click to expand...
Me too. Will bring ML for show-and-tell but will be shooting Damascus breech-loaders with smokeless loads at BP-equivalent pressures. Including a George Daw 'central fire'.

apAQzMp.jpg

MnhdzMI.jpg
 
Not a double, but a fine British gun.

001.jpg
004.jpg

16ga Wilkinson, 1822.
 

Attachments

  • 001.jpg
    001.jpg
    96 KB · Views: 344
  • 004.jpg
    004.jpg
    60.1 KB · Views: 344
brybenn said:
Beautiful
Click to expand...

Thanks, Bryan. The Daw Central fire was the first British gun to use the modern primer system. I.e. following pinfire and basefire. If Daw had been successful defending the patent against Eley to be exclusive marketer of centerfire cartridges things would have evolved very differently.
And this one shoots like a dream.
 
This is my favorite shooter. 14 gauge. Fairly late gun, has 1855 and 1813 proofs.
Have had it since the early '70s. Bores are shiny. Goose, hares, grouse, ptarmigan.
The locks are marked Manton, but I doubt that is anything to do with the famous family. Decent quality gun, so I don't think the name is spurious; suspect Manton in Montreal, who was a merchant. Gun came out of the Ottawa Valley. Locks are marked internally WS. Likely William Smith, who was a Birmingham maker.
001.jpg
002.jpg
 

Attachments

  • 001.jpg
    001.jpg
    74.2 KB · Views: 312
  • 002.jpg
    002.jpg
    73.5 KB · Views: 312
It's a little newer than what most of you are posting here but I'll be bringing this 1930 Purdey. More pics in the Show Us Your SxS thread.

 
I'm prepping the boys for Oshawa

Here's my lineup for Saturday:
IBBGqpS.jpg

(E.M. Reilly, Gustav Masu, George Daw, W. Greener, J. Purdey and Sons).
Might substitute in the Jefferies side opener...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom