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Drew thanks for the pics..this gun only partially cocks the hammer with the weight of the barrels dropping doing the rest, is that how the colton worked?
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Reb..did that gun come out of Central Nebraska? I swear I looked at it once, in I think McCook...
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Reb, I don't know if the Colton toplever completely cocked the guns or not. Gun Report of Jan, 1997 has a good article on Colton by James A Nelson.
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I have two Union of Toledo guns. One is a 20 in mint condition under a private label name, the other is a well used and abused 12 under Union Arms. Neither is a match for the gun listed above. I suspect this gun was another design which never made it. That is a lot of milling to make that receiver and it is just a simple box lock with side plates.
I was told one of the problems that Remington double had with their design was too much need for milling and what was deemed to be a slightly overly complicated design. This gun seems to fit that same bill.
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