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And next, Mister Midas.

https://www.naturabuy.fr/rare-fusil-ideal-pontet-lunette-crosse-arabe-collection-item-11259013.html

Ce nom vient du fait qu'elles ressemblaient aux crosses des fusils arabes Moukala.

Mercy.

...Mo Betta
A set of 28 gauge Superposed, 28" Skeet

Une crosse arabe... Jamais entendu ça.

https://drouot.com/fr/l/15578558-fusil-juxtapose-ideal-de-manuf

Hrm! Je viens d'apprendre un nouveau terme. Merci!

Tom,

Jusqu'en 1891, l'Idéal était monté uniquement avec une crosse arabe. A partir de cette date, elle commence à disparaitre pour laisser place à des crosses conventionnelles (demi-pistolet et anglaise).

N'oubliez pas de mettre des photos de votre Idéal Perfection, quand vous l'aurez reçu.

Yeah, I know. I was joking. It's got the little dollar signs stamped into the left side of its flats. Big Scrooge McDuck fan, so I bought it.

I guess my picture's not showing up for you. It does have that mega yacht of a forend, with the horseshoe-shaped retaining hardware at the front, as opposed to the previous version with fasteners on either side of the wood. The weird thing about it is, when I unboxed and first beheld it, I expected it'd handle like a baulk of mine-shoring timber. Not the case. It swings like it's an extension of my hatred of the color orange.

Regarding your Browning.
Skeet/Skeet. Most likely .005 constriction top and bottom.
“New Style Skeet” if it looks like it has 2 forends worth of wood up front.

I heard through the grapevine that Hodgdon in its infinite wisdom is now publishing 12 gauge loads for 244.

Sure enough, the website has quite a few loads many with some of the new wave wads, and many with pressures on the low side for the claimed velocity levels at least in the one ounce selections.

Surprising. This powder was initially marketed for pistol applications with a copper scavenger and low flash characteristics. My source claims it's either an alternative to or an eventual replacement for WST. This is just one word of mouth claim.

The main attraction at this point is that the stuff is available, and good bit cheaper than WST and the Alliant extortion when you can find any. I'm not saying it's cheap. It certainly isn't. We are still being robbed.

If you want one ounce loads in the 7200 psi range with snappy velocity, you might want to investigate 244.

Took a long-overdue trip to the trap & skeet club today.



On the left, Rizzini BR550, 28-gauge, 28" barrels. A magic wand. Used it for four rounds of trap with Modified chokes. Shot like a bag of hammers, very inconsistently, but had fun doing so. Odd thing, today... The backside of the trigger guard kept smacking my middle finger, to the point that it's a bit bruised and swollen. Never happened before. Same loads I've always used. Is my grip too loose or something?

On the right, salt wood-era Browning Superposed Lightning Skeet, 12-gauge, 26" pipes. Choked, uhh, I forget how it's choked. A short, fat shillelagh of a shotgun. Shot two rounds of skeet, coached on where to hold for each penguin at every station by a real old pro, and actually managed to blow up some doubles. More than once each round, which is encouraging. And by blow up, I mean they disintegrated. It only happened when my mind was a blank, though. See penguin, shoot penguin.

These two bazookas couldn't be more different-- unless one of them had a third barrel chambered in .229 Flea, and the other had a built-in Würzburg radar set. I love 'em both.

Its thick leather with a felt liner.

Very nice gun and case. Is the case made of thick leather or does it have some kind of composite covered by leather?

The American Single Barrel Trap Gun by Frank Conley.

Mint condition with mint dust jacket in library cover.

$125 plus media mail shipping.

PM for pics.

Any pictures?

Yes, you are correct compared to the $230.00 price of the same loads at RST.

UK Archives has forward the bankruptcy account from E.M. Reilly & Co., presented at a meeting held in August 1913. Reilly declared bankruptcy on 06 June 1912. It was hoped that this report would contain lists of equipment, machinery, etc. sold from 295 Oxford Street to pay off creditors. It does not. It is purely a financial document listing amounts recovered from debtors and paid out to bondholders and creditors.

The list of creditors being paid a limited amount on their debt (in addition to the usual water, gas bills) is interesting. The companies include:
. .-- Eley
. .-- Kynoch
. .-- Holloway - SN 35614, one of the last guns serial numbered by Reilly, also has a Holloway SN. See Chapter XII. Death of EM Reilly; Decline and Fall 1890-1918; 91. 1904-1912: Reilly Reduced to Finishing Guns Bought in the White?
Remington
. .-- Le Personne & Co. - (Belgian gun merchant living in uK: see: https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=611262
. .-- Remington Arms
. .-- Stevens Arms
. .-- Webeley & Scott
. .-- London Small Arms
. .-- Regent shooting ground
etc.

Among the debts recovered is one from Lord Conyngham. This is likely either
1. Lord Victor George Henry Francis Conyngham, 5th Marquess of Conyngham, (1880-1918)
2. Lord Frederick William Burton Conyngham, 6th Marquess of Conyngham (1890-1974) (brother of the 5th)
The Conyngham's were Irish landed nobility.

Selected documents to be posted.

Such a deal, Ollie.

We’ll get on over and shoot it with us. Promise you won’t have to wear a cheesehead.

Today at the Southern Side x Side there was a vendor (ACG Ammo) who was selling BPS (Turkey) 12 ga 2 1/2 inch 24g 6,000 psi shotshells(do not know the velocity) for $140.00/flat of 250.

thank you, fab500.....

the earlier lunette gun has a unique (at least to me) stock - lower at "comb" than at heel, with an "ambidextrous" checking pattern....and viewed from the side, an almost "art deco" appearance. i have seen many photos of the lunette guns, but have never had the opportunity to handle one.

best regards,

tom

Plenty of Foxes there. I looked at an A Grade 20 bore today

Have fun.

I shoot 14 gauge components from Circle Fly in my 15 gauge MH Blood ML. My gun was made in Memphis, TN with Osborne barrels. It's a left handed SxS restored for me by MV Highsmith late of Memphis.

South of the Mason Dixon Line.

Sounds great!! Good luck.