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O-W-D:
The triggers on my Scott are set up the same way as all my other doubles with two triggers. The forward trigger that fires the right barrel is to the right and the back trigger for the left barrel is to the left. Being a lefty myself I hadn't realised it before but I agree that it's easy for a lefty to operate both triggers is this configuration.
Jim

Don't get to feeling like Christopher Columbus.

There's a whole thread on here about New World desoveries.

http://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=21369&page=1#Post21369

It would be interesting to learn what other English makers such as Boss, Purdey and Woodward where getting for their guns in the late 1880’s.

If your gun was made to order for a left-handed shooter the stock might have been made with cast-on, does yours have any cast one way or the other?

Michael:
I just checked and it was made with a very slight amount of cast-on. As a lefty it fits me very well.
BTW: This gun has probably been taken out of the cabinet more times in the last two weeks than in the previous two years!
Jim

OWD asked:
"BTW: what's the record for responses and views for a post?"

Me thinks you have a ways to go, Grasshopper

Best,
Tolly

Didn't that post by Yogi about creating a double slug gun go for quite a while? The reddish stock thread also went for a while.

When was that thread started? That is one that Dave should dig up and put in the FAQ'a.

Here's my Premier grade W.& C. Scott 10 gauge circa 1881 it has a 14 & 1/4" pull, the drop points are 1 & 5/8" and 2 inches it weighs about 10 & 1/2 lbs and sports 32 inch barrels. It's choked a tight modified in each barrel.
It's has the Tri plex lever grip and pattened adjustable lump, that in 126 years has never been adjusted. Other than some oil on the stock the finish remains original.
It was reproofed for Nitro, 3& 1/2", 1 & 1/2 oz at 4 tons sometime after 1954. I had a lower grade 10 gauge Scott built about the same time with allot lighter barrels. The Premier 10 that Lewis and Drake has listed is a lighter framed gun than mine.
The barrel thickness on this gun makes me wonder if it was possibly built on an 8 gauge frame but the 10 & 1/2 lb weight might rule that out.

Just finished watching the playoffs so I'm back posting again. I guess we've got a Mid Western Superbowl!
HomelessjOe: That is one spectacular looking Scott and the condition appears to be incredible considering its age. I expect if it will still be in use at 200 years!
Jim

Wow - 1 5/8" x 2" ?

That's the highest stocked Premier hammergun I've ever seen.

Was it made that way or bent? If it was made that way, I wonder if it was made for an English shooter.

It's also the first Premier hammergun I've seen with a Triplex Lever Grip.

Does it have two screws on top of the action? The hammerless guns that I've seen with the Triplex Lever Grip (pg. 10 in the Scott book, upper photo) have all had a piece fitted into the action for that funky extension. I wonder if Scott also fitted this piece onto their hammerguns.

What about the forend release? Is it like the one on pg 15 or pg. 16 of the book?

You know, Scott make Premier-grade hammerguns into the 20th ceentury. Has anyone ever seen a later one - say around WW1?

OWD