This gun was sleeved long before I got to it.
I often wonder how much use a Paradox would be in these days of fantastically accurate rifles shooting HV small (relatively) bullets.
As a collectors toy, I can understand the attraction but as part of the design brief was to enable the shooter to 'shoot tigers like you might a rabbit', I feel it is probably of another time!
I doubt there are many parts of the world where you might feel it was necessary to shoot a snipe with the right and a lion/beer/tiger/buffalo with the left but then perhaps I don't move in the right circles!
I did not want to demean your gun only lamenting the fact as such an important paradox it was no longer as it was when it left the factory.
It would be difficult to say what was in Fosbury's mind when he was perfecting the Paradox. An extension to the range of the opened choked ball gun. A gun for feather and fur but not particularly designed for dangerous game, that would come later. I believe the paradox to still be useful today as it was originally designed, a gun to bring multiple species to the pot by merely a change of cartridges. No need to venture to India or Africa to take advantage of that.
