Bob set the fashion for 25" barrelled guns with the "patent quick sighting rib" and no doubt much to his annoyance, other makers cashed in with cheaper knock offs.
I have a 25" Stensby boxlock ejector complete with appropriate rib, made in 1935 originally for a Captain Bennett. I rescued it as a widows gun some 25 years ago, a bit uncared for, but basically sound, in it's makers case. Although Stensby were a Manchester firm, Wisemans reckon it was one of theirs made in Brum and rebadged. He paid 23 Guineas for it. At 6 lbs and a couple of ounces your gun mount needs to be pretty good to avoid punishment. Anything heavier than Grand Prix and you know all about it.
The case had British Army shipping marks, and the story was that the good Capt. and his gun went out to Burma to fight the Japanese, but only the gun came home.
There was a time I could shoot it quite nicely, using something very like the Churchill method which relies on perfect timing; decrepitude has put an end to all that. Can't hit a barn when standing inside it now.
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Last edited by eugene molloy; 08/03/16 06:09 PM.