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All these pictures of these French Darnes and their perfect wood to metal fit has got me interested in these little beauties. Any good books, recently published, on this French gunmaking firm?
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Go to eBay Advanced Search, type-in Fusil Darne and you will get access to the only Darne book I'm aware of (plus a couple of Darne catalogues). The seller is French but will ship internationally.
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Jani
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Thanks gentlemen for the information!!!! I take it all of these histories are in French??? Hmmmmm that's going to be a big problem for me!!!!!
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Read Steve Bodio's book, "Good Guns" and his article in in the first issue of Double Gun Journal
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Have acquired a nice 28ga Darne and a 16 ga Charlin over last couple of years. There is not much info out there on these sliding breech guns. Double gun journal has a few articles floating around out there and there was an aticle in Shooting Sportsman on French shootguns a few years back. Good luck in your quest.
JJK
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Thanks gentlemen for the information!!! I guess I need to go back to school and learn French if I want to continue with this.  All the best
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What's the difference between a Darne and a Charlin????
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Gentlemen:
A while back someone asked about a Darne that was a repeater. It rang a bell and I knew I had seen pictures somewhere. In any event, I recently stumbled upon the pictures.
The shotgun is featured on the cover of the February, 1977 issue of the American Rifleman. There is a short article and more pictures inside. It is a 16 gauge Belgian made Darne type action that carries two rounds side by side in a magazine below the sliding breech.
One caption read:
The museum's descrption: "four-shot shotgun, 16 ga., system Chales Leve, 1928, center-fire, inside hammers, automatic loading and fixed barrels. Made in Liege."
Glenn
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A Darne and a Charlin are not the same. A Darne is a toggle operated wedge locked sliding breech, with a secondary rising bite that meets an extension on the barrels. A Charlin is a non locked over-the-center device. The Jagermeister's phobia of either opening at the shot is just that, an irrational fear.
The list of articles over the years on Darne guns is extensive, and anyone who says there aren't many simply hasn't looked very hard.
See, Shooting Sportsman Dec 1989, "Paul Bruchet" by M. McIntosh, Double Gun Journal, "21st Century Jungle G" Stephan Bodio, The Gun Digest 27th edition, 1973 "The Darne Gun" by John T. Amber, The American Rifleman, January 1976 "Americanization of a VC" by Col Frederick E. Roseman, The Doubler Gun Journal, Winter, 1989 "If It's Weird" a defense of the Darne, by Stephen Bodio, Shooter's Bible, #56, 1965 edition, "A Darne Good Bird Gun" by Roger Barlow, Shooting Sportsman, April 1991, "Two Bobwhite and The French Refugee" by Barry G. Davis, Shooting Sportsman, "Darne, One of a Kind" by Stephen Bodio, "Details of a Darne" Robert Fallert, The Double Gun Journal, Autumn 1990, "Le Bon Vieux Darne" Summer, 1996 Double Gun Journal, by your's truly, Gun Review, by Vic Venters, Shooting Sportsman July 1998, "The Bruchet Darne", The American Rifleman, April 1975, "The French Dare to be Original" by Roger Barlow, The American Rifleman, December 1978 "Hunting for Grouse (guns) by Roger Barlow, The Gun Digest, 24th edition 1970, "Gun Proof In France" by Lee Kennett.
Those are the ones I can think of right now, there are more...
Best,
Ted
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