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

Chris those are some beautiful guns. Very nice work.

No wonder we have the idea we can send you our pieces of junk and have them come back as gems.
 
Chris, I sincerely hope you are keeping a photographic record of your projects. The work that flows from your shop and those of your partners is truly remarkable and destined to become an important part of our heritage. Long live the Artisan.
 
I've just received sad news. Chris Dawe is no longer able to get into his workshop. All work has ceased for the time being until his swollen head gets back down to normal size!
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Well, I've been through all 193 pages in the last few weeks, what a stunning bunch of guns we have in this country! With this inspiration I feel the urge to add to the record. Which one? Eeny meeny miny moe, how about something modern today. OK, here is my Heym model 22S, 20 gauge 3" over 7x57R, I ordered this in from Franconia in West Germany about 1984 with the claw mounted Ziess 4X scope and a Kreighoff .22 caliber insert barrel. Many guns have come and gone in the intervening 35 years, this one stays and is my all round hunting gun every year. Deer, mountain goat, sheep, moose, ducks and a truck load of grouse, this is the most useful gun I have ever owned. I load Nosler 175 gr Partitions for moose and bear, Nosler 140 gr Partitions for everything else, same point off impact at 100 M, different loads. The scope reattaches with no change of point of impact and it groups sub 1" with either load. The .22 insert will stay on a dime - grouse's head - at 25 yards with Winchester Super X and maintains zero when removed and reinserted. .22 is legal for grouse in BC and this gun has fed many hunting camps. It has a single adjustable set trigger, the barrel selector is the button on the left side of the receiver, up for shotgun (upper) barrel, down for rifle (lower) barrel. NO safety! None needed. What looks like a top tang safety is actually a manual cocking device. With the gun closed it is not cocked until you slide this button forward, similar to cocking an exposed hammer gun like a Win M94 only you push instead of pull. It decocks by pushing down on the small button on the top of the cocking slide and letting it come back to the inert uncocked position. Fast, quiet, simple and very safe, you carry it with the chambers loaded but the gun is not cocked until you #### it.
 
Heym Bochbuchflinte remainder. When I ordered this I envisaged the ultimate mountain rifle, it only weighs 6 lb 10 oz with scope and 22 insert, 5 lb 13 oz bare. The action is some type of aluminum alloy with steel inserts at the wear points and remains tight as new. It holds a very tight group for 3 rifle shots ( never needed that many) then starts to walk up as that pencil sized barrel starts to heat up. I think they are still available in several shotgun gauges and 6-8 rifle calibers.
 
I just sold an F W Heym 16 gauge last summer to my friend VictoryXC on this board. A mid 1930's vintage. Beautifully made gun. Patrick stole it from me. I should be mad. LOL
 
Well this one stays with me until I decide that my big game hunting days are over. There is a Heym 16 ga over/under on the Gagnon site right now, maybe has a crudely repaired cracked stock but well priced.
 
Hey all was thinking of posting some of my Weston sxs percussion . But cannot get them to work . Can I text or email them to some one posting here ?? Contact by pm
 
William Wellington Greener, Birmingham

1878 12 ga. 2.5" BP proofs. Greener's crossbolt 3rd bite.
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CJ Dawe refinished the stocks, recut the checkering. Nick Makinson rejointed the action, browned the bbls.
 
Well, it's a rare miserable cold stormy day in south central BC, perfect for posting heart warming pictures.
This one is special. I mean MORE special. A William Moore and Grey best quality bar in wood hammer gun from 1874-78. What is so special special about a best quality hammer gun from one of the best makers of their day? How about a hammer gun with EJECTORS? I know they exist, I've seen one occasionally on high priced auction sites but this is the only one I've ever held in my hands. I know of only one other in BC and my gunsmith had seen that one and two others in Britain before he came to Canada 30 years ago, no one else that I know has even seen a hammer ejector. Of course some of the early ejectors were erratic and they added a great extra cost, so by the time these issues were worked out the heyday of the hammer gun was long past. 12 gauge of course, with 30" barrels, best Chilton locks, .016" and .018" of choke. It was very dirty when I got it but appears to have never been refinished and after I had it professionally serviced and cleaned inside and out the original sharp engraving, checkering and metal finishes just pop! And those 140+ year old Perkes Patent ejectors work like new.
 
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