doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Angle of the Break Off...waterT & standing Breech?

I doubt that any one ever sat down at a draughting table and worked it out . Some gunmaker found out by trial and error and the angle was later set for production machining . Like so many other things on double guns they just evolved .Darwin was right the best survived others died out along the way .

Gunman,

YOu are right about the evolution. But when that was happening there were master craftsmen who could wield a file almost as fast as a milling machine and things were tried and evaluated quickly. Some time ago I posted a pic from G. Boothroyd showing the crude wooden prototype of the Churchill OU, from which the staff went to produce best quality finished guns.

Nowadays we have to digitise everything if we want things machined, often by peole who are hundreds of miles away.

It was interesting to sit and work out barrel thickness and from there the lines of the action body. Finally whan all was done the machine gave the angle of the breech face to the water table, 88,4 degrees, in other words the same as the old time dimensions but arrived at in a whole different way. It was a validation of sorts.

Miller, +100! Since Dr. Wanker has never shown any intelligence whatsoever here, we appear to be stuck with his inability to accept that the action flats on a gun have been widely referred to as the water table by gun makers for a far longer time than he has been a pseudo-intellectual.

I wonder when we'll see a thread from Dr. Wanker asking why those thingies between the barrels are called ribs. Aren't ribs an anatomical feature in vertebrates, and a delicious meal when barbecued and slathered with sauce? How about barrels? We're not keeping whiskey or beer in the damn things. Why do we call them barrels? This terminology must be driving poor Dr. Wanker crazy.