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If I see correctly, double side hammers/triggers, bar (?) action locks, damascus barrels, triple/3rd lock and lovely wood. God, I love SxS's!

Alan

Westley Richards 10 bore with Stanton Sidelocks and Kilby Barrels from Birmingham, England. 32 inch barrels and weighs in at 12 1/2 pounds, a real nice fowling piece for the energetic sportsman...

Don't think I have a picture of my SxS. A Manton of London. It's a Birmingham BLE on a W&S Screw Grip action with very light n long 30" barrels. It has a third bite, double triggers and a straight grip. At 6 lb 2 oz, with .010" and .023" chokes it an upland killer for sure though the wood surely isn't as pretty as yours Shrapnel.

Alan

This one is really the Crown Jewell. It was made in 1868, before they were even using brass shotgun shells. The wood is original and the gun in fantastic shape considering it is 150 years old.

Steven Dodd Hughes just wrote a 2 column article on it for the next 2 editions of Shooting Sportsman. It is truly the epitome of the gun maker's art and revolutionary in many aspects of all the virtues of this gun...

Oh HECK yes! Island locks (?), round action, gorgeous wood. Ejectors or extractors? Weight?

A tidy lightweight 8x57 Erfurt Mauser I picked up in north Idaho some years ago.

Ruger No 1


Parker VH, restocked by JJ Jenkins

A pre-64 M70 358 Win.

Like I posted earlier, you got some real pretty ones, no doubt.

Thanks for sharing. I never get tired of looking at your stable of fine guns.

You got good taste...

DF

Round body, back action, sidelocks , and extractors. Ejectors didn't show up until the 1880's. The percussion persuasion is evident in the fences around the firing pins and the key holding on the forearm...

WOW!

Now, that's cool...

DF

That's right. Island locks are surrounded by wood.

Alan

My Browning Safari .308 pencil barrel. Not bad for $650 at an estate auction sale. It kills stuff too.

Not as fancy as some, but historic. This is Maj. Charles Askins, Sr.'s personal Superposed. He was one of the top gunwriters and shotgun gurus of the '30's and 40's and Col. Charles Askins, Jr.'s father.

Wood restored by James Flynn, Gunmaker, right down to the vintage, flat topped checkered diamonds. Flynn is a master of the leather pad. The Major had a rubber pad that had been replace and the replacement was in bad shape. So we went with period appropriate restoration rather than literal photo perfect reproduction. We could have gotten Silvers or Hawkins reproduction pads, but because of Flynn's expertise with pigskin, this was a no-brainer. Photos by Flynn.

This rather long thread tells the story.

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=124719

DF

That is one sweet superposed DF. What year was it originally made?

1932.

Yeah, I was fortunate to luck into it. Traded a Jap Browning Sporting Clays even for this old gun, just because I liked the lines, the solid rib, how it was set up, etc.

Only later did I find out about the provenance. The shop I traded with wasn't too happy when they found out what they let slip thru their hands.

Oh well...

Sometimes, even a blind hog finds an acorn...

DF

Glad the shotgun went to a good home that appreciates it....

I had a Superposed that was the 198th one made after the end of WWII that I have passed down to my son. It is one fine shooting 12 gauge shotgun with dark french walnut on it.

I don't think I've seen that one before. That is nice!

.257 Roberts on a VZ24.

Beauty. Who did the stock work?