Double Gun Journal, volume 14, issue 2, Summer 2003. Page 143.
Just by pure happenstance I stumbled across a very interesting article. The subject of the piece is a gun built by or carrying the name of C.S. Rosson. Its a beautiful gun with alot of very nice features, obviously a high end gun. Looking at the pictures of the gun, I noticed that the pin placement looks very familiar to me. The author doesn't do that swell of a job describing the mechanism nor does he show pictures of the action flats or barrels flats. What he does describe of interest is this...the gun is a self opener with "openings in the slender frame", "pushrods extending thru the holes in the action body that somehow articulate the mainsprings".
Could this Rosson be built on Beesleys patent #425?? Sure looks and sounds like it to me! If it is....its the only gun I've seen built on that patent that doesnt carry Beesley or Lancasters name.
What are your thoughts?
Dustin
