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Ted, what purpose would be served by "glass bedding" a sxs shotgun?

Dean

It's a 'Long Cracked Smith' thing Dean
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/17090409
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20576154

My go to, high volume shooting gun has been a Sterlingworth.
Duck I go M21.

Many of the American "classic" 16's had 2 9/16 or shorter chambers. I have owned and tinkered with both Parker & Fox with short chambers. Bought and reloaded short shells. Lenghtened FC's and shot 2 3/4" "game loads", not Mags. As nice as these older guns are, I have concluded I would rather shoot & hunt a gun I trust to handle a Super X or Federal Premium 16ga load rather than some obscure second tier "low pressure" shell made by "XYZ Inc." I shoot to break targets and hunt to kill birds, not carry around some worn out, obsolete shotgun.

Rev,
Is that a "hammerless" LC lock?

Forgive my lack of background on this, please......but I thought the Smiths were not full "sidelocks"..and perhaps your example is not, but the pic sure looks like one?

Best,
Mark

Yes Mark, and they are true sidelocks. An agricultural grade lock courtesy of JDW

DearTed Schefelbein; with all respect due you seem to have hard on feelings for fox guns. You say whne pictues of blown guns are posted they usualy are fox guns. I ask, please let us know which postings you have in data, or please use search function here and let us know dates and topics. Thank you for xtra data to backup your statement. CB

Can't speak for Destry, but IMO those two "dudes" look like extras for the movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"--but then, I re-read my 1904 repro L.C. Smith catalogue, and talk about Dapper- almost all the gents shown were wearing hats and ties, regardless of which grade of "Elsie" they were holding. The Remington boxlocks went "South" about the same time Baker folded their tents, but if I read his bio correctly in SC, Edmund Osthaus owned and shot two ejector grade Remington doubles. All these answers to the initial question posed are really a very interesting Koan- to use a Hindu term- meaning a question that cannot be logically answered or explained. I like pre-1913 ejector 12 gauge L.C. Smiths with either 30 or 32 inch steel barrels snugly choked- because they perform well for me consistently, are more affordable in my area than Parkers or AH Foxes or Model 21's, and by staying with 12 gauges, avoid the old supply/demand ratio that makes 10 gauge-20-28 and the ridiculous .410 fetch more in the same grade and condition as your good old plain vanilla 12 bore- and I don't get raped at the GM or Cabela's stores when I buy 12 ga. shells, like they do when you want 16-28 or .410. To each his own!!

I just picked up my "new" Lefever 16 g H grade today. Can't wait to shoot it, but with mirror bores and Lefever's built in compensation system along with the balance of this gun, I would put it up with the best of them.

I always thought Parker handled their marketing very poorly with slogans that touted the balance, handling, or reliability of their guns. They could have simply settled on one slogan and it would have lasted even through modern times.

"It's lonely at the top".