SXS Shotguns

[Win/64]

It must be the wine and cheese. Like my shotguns I prefer those that come from the Basque regions.

Ah yes the Basque regions. Where everyone is related.

 

[Claybuster]

Ah yes the Basque regions. Where everyone is related.

In that regard they are much like the British Royals who are noted users of the 16 bore.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236000/King-Edward-VIIs-70-000-shotguns-hammer.html

 

[Win/64]

In that regard they are much like the British Royals who are noted users of the 16 bore.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236000/King-Edward-VIIs-70-000-shotguns-hammer.html

And I thought they were just bored.

 

[Forty4Forty]

CZ has a good selection I have the Bobwhite, nice gun. Also with hammered ones.

http:// cz-usa.com/products/by-category/shotguns/

Depends how cheap, really cheap, comments like crappy wood, poor this and that etc, you get what you pay for, CZ is a good midrange priced option.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Claybuster I must be an Woman onthioligist as I love 28 bores a 410 cal shotguns for most of my grouse hunting, HAHAHAHA!
jOHN WHAT HAPENED TO THE END OF THOSE VERY NICE zH300 SERIES SHOTGUN BARRELS? LOOKS LIKE WOODY WOOD PECKER HAD A FEAST?
And John what is that nice Sidelock in the picture with your shells and new case? Looks like it would be at home in my gunsafe to keep my Rigby company! Very nice whatever it is. I have started to collect English and European SXS in the last 2 years and now am more broke than ever, but when I get to shoot and hunt with these peices of art it makes it worth while! great thread Dale in T-Bay

I know what you mean. They're a set of skeet barrels that came along with the 7x57R/12ga.

The side lock was made by J.S. Boreham of England. There's a 2 engraved on the opening lever so I assume it to be one of a matched pair. The new case I picked up at a local gun show. Seemed somewhat more appropriate to put it in a case like that for transport rather than in one of todays plastic variety.

Years back when I picked up the sidelock, I found it in a used rack at an oldtime hardware/sporting goods store in Naniamo, Ernie Johnson's. It felt and seemed to fit the best out of anything else available.

 

[TheTooner]

Stick with the 12 bore if you want to maintain your social standing among the Brits. The 12 is what the true Englishman shoots and lesser gauges are for lesser individuals.

While the 16 bore is darling of the Europe's elite, in England it is the preserve of delicate men of questionable ###uality or large, rough women about whom the same can be said. The 16 bore shooter is often of royal lineage and suffered too many canings while in school.

The 20 bore is for women, pre-pubsecent children, doddering eccentrics and other social misfits. Military officers who are found guilty of dereliction of duty are given a 20. Hence the yellow cartridges, to remind them of their cowardice.

The 28 bore has only limited use. You will find it primarily in remote jungles being used to gather bird specimens by British professors wearing pith helmets and monocles. This explains the absence of buckshot or slugs in 28. No one objects if a lion gulps down some fusty English ornithologist and it does open another tenured position.

The .410 is the preserve of elderly English woman who smell disturbingly of lilac water and Pimms. They use the the smallest bore to protect their gardens from assorted pests that threaten their roses. Secondly only to the liquor trolley, roses are nearest an Englishwoman's heart. The trend to the .410 began after too many servants were injured by gin-soaked wives of the upper crust wielding 12 bores.

So stick with the 12 unless you have roses to protect.

Reading that was time well spent. It should be a Sticky. Thanks, Claybuster.