I read somewhere that the Westley Richards started out to make a pinless boxlock for engraving (of course for marketing) and realized they had a droplock.

I had always supposed that the advantage to drop locks was the ability to dry off, clean and oil the locks after a rainy day shoot. But I never read of any Westley advertisements extolling that advantage.

I have gotten old in the last few years and given it up, but I used to, on occasion, shoot dove in the rain. Would have been nice to have popped out the locks and layed them in the truck defroster vents on the way home. I did that with the gun broken down and it seemed to work OK.


Last edited by AmarilloMike; 01/10/14 10:05 AM.

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