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

This thread is really great, and I gotta tell ya, a breath of fresh air. Sometimes it seems the whole gun world has gone to faster, bigger, plastic, titanium etc etc. Nice to know there's so many other Canucks into real shotguns. Thanks for all the great pics.:cheers:
 
Its great to have diversity in a Damascus bbl'd shotgun. Paper cartridges do smell nicer though ;) (my Mom found it quite alarming to see her 11 yr old son consistently sniffing empty hulls for no apparent reason and had quite a few things to say to my father/uncles :D)

If memory serves, Kent Gamebore offered both 28/30 gram paper loads.

I am still hoping you'd post the sxs in its entirety i.e. if the rest of the stock/forearm actually came with the gun :D
 
Great find! Nice wood too underneath those handling marks. Looks like the specimen could be a great candidate for a beautiful refinish job.

Thanks for sharing.
 
My favorite shotgun of all time, the Gold Label. 12 gauge, weighs 6 1/4 lbs, hammer forged barrels, selective ejection. Was a dream gun that finally made it home.

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canvasback said:
Win64, that gun just gets better with every picture you put up. Great wood! Now I'm seriously kicking myself. Hard!
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Thanks. I'm just not sure what I am going to do with it yet. Not sure if I want to tackle a refinish job on it. Still have to figure out how to take the locks out. :)
 
Ardent, you're the first person I ever encountered who actually had one of those. Congratulations. Truly a remarkable bit of engineering there.
 
To all,

truly dreamy guns everybody. I love classy guns and will never ever get synthetic of any kind. I'm not the richest guy (maybe the youngest) here but I finally did purchace a side x side this year. I've always wanted one and now I finally have a BSS 12ga. 30" barrels with mod/full. I got a good deal on it. It is in good to very good shape. I'd put a picture up but I'm in a different continent working right now. I've been lurking on this site a couple of weeks and I haven't wanted to get home more to fire my baby off than after reading this thread . My friends have heard me say this before

I LOVE MY SIDE BY SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cheers:
 
Thank you vega, there's a few of us in Alberta here. Took me four or five years to get my first year example. It's a remarkable gun, and it gets used, took it to Africa with me in April and took a good deal of guinea fowl and frankolin with her. Ought to put up a pic of that, actually.
 
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Win/64 said:
How is it so remarkable?
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Sounds like a challenge. :) Well here you go...

It weighs only a hair over 6lbs, is a 12 gauge with a frame the size of most 28 gauges, in a round bodied action. A Conneticut shotgun RBL Round Action in the same gauge weighs 7lbs 13 oz to 8lbs 13oz. Hammer forged barrels, and selective ejection, steel rated interchangeable chokes you cant even see (likely the thinnest on the market), and 3" chambers. Finally, the first new double to be designed and built in the USA since 1929, or 20 years shy of a century.

Other makers are using aluminum and still not hitting the Gold Label's weight point, and the Gold Label's 100% steel and walnut. It also handles in a way that is, well since you asked, remarkable, in large part due to its weight, balance, and ultra tiny frame size. Finally, it has 3" chambers and will shoot any 12 gauge ammo on the market, new, old, steel, lead, hevishot buckshot, slugs... It also retailed at about 25% of guns that meet similar specifications (a Holland & Holland Northwood entry boxlock, for instance, but even this doesn't sport the hammer forged barrel strength and interchangeable chokes). I bought mine for twice the price they retailed at in 2004, and still feel I got a remarkable bargain.

Hope that helped! I wouldn't sell it for $6000 these days, and two more years I can say with confidence, that's what they'll be selling for as they've already doubled.

Here she is at work, in Africa a few months ago, and back to the pics. Guinea Fowl and Frankolin (African Grouse, essentially), and she was out for clays yesterday. Plus, they're just damn gorgeous...

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