doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Do sideclips really work ?

You aren't ever going to get that gun finished, Bill, if you keep adding specs to it!

SRH

Ken; your bullet holes are distracting!!

Stan, funny you should mention that. I about drove DV crazy when he was filing the receiver. But he finally joined me in suggesting little "improvements" that I approved wholeheartedly. However, it is now in phase two. I am now driving DR crazy. Geoffrey will be next, has seen the gun and made positive comments, and has agreed to participate. However, you only know if a project is going to be a success when you see the finished product. This is my third project gun that has been entirely completed by craftsmen who are my friends. With one project, I chose to do no metal work, so Dan Rossiter was the sole craftsman and the job is astounding. It is a Parker pigeon gun that was displayed on Dan's tables at the Southern Side by Side.

I doubt you are serious, but in case you are, adding sideclips to a receiver without them would require welding additional metal onto the existing receiver and filing it down. Given the strength of the fox action already they would be overkill or affectation.

That said I doubt you really mean to do it except to bait someone. Then again I have been wrong before.

It isn't rocket science for a talented gunsmith to add them. Almost all of the DelGrego and Pachmayr Parker Invincibles have them. Affectation, yes. However, a talented engraver can add faux side clips that cannot be told from the real thing until you open the gun.

Pelosi on a popsicle stick!!!
I'll bet you have problems with crossing true pairs too!!

Let it not be said that I wasn't sensitive to the needs of others........

For those that haven't seen how sideclips are fashioned watch this Arrieta youtube video. The sideclip action begins at about the :52 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A39UlMzwuP0

I hate 'em. Finger slicing device. Great to look at on someone's heavily engraved, decked out, bespoke somethin or another. As to adding strength...show me the analysis. They look like camming devices to open the action in the event the barrels actually came to bear against them. But then you'd have bigger issues if the barrels spread enough to really bear against them. They are in the same catagory as "dollsheads" in my opinion.

Spoken like a man with a ton of experience with them, eh Chuck?

What's wrong with a Doll's Head. Seems to me as if a properly fitted one should add support to the standing breech to prevent it springing back as much on firing.