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Gene,
The barrels can be removed without taking the sliding breech off. Slide the breech fully to the rear. The main spring, the forked spring in the opened slot, should be tilted down towards the muzzle end. if you have to depress the spring, use a finger, but nothing more than a plastic ball point pen to apply pressure. With a hand around the barrels and the forend, jab the muzzle into a carpet. The barrels will slide rearward slightly and separate from the forend/stock assembly. The mainspring is semi-unobtanium so that is the reason you shouldn't use more than a finger or plastic ball point pin to depress the spring and don't press on the serrated fork; just above the serrations is where the pressure goes. I had to replace the spring on my R10 and was very, very lucky to get it done. If you break the spring, highly unlikely, you'll be screwed, very likely. Here's detailed thread by Ted on disassembly. That's a great gun. I'm opening dove season with my R10 16.
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=439660&page=3

Upon further study, I think it's an R 10, plain and unadorned. Still, a nice gun.

I vote R-10.

No, I would PM Ted first. He'll show you exactly how to do it and what to watch for and what to watch out for when taking it apart.

Sweet gun!!!!!!!

I like it! Have ordered a Silvers recoil pad, which it needs for looks. The barrels are 27.5". Maybe 28", I can't remember.

Most likely 70 CM which would convert to 27.559" or just under 27 5/8".

I think you're right. About 27.5. I don't have a CM scale, though.

Whoever told you it was an R13 was full of poo. It is an R10 Darne, definitely post second big war. If you looked at the gourmet hunter website, the gun in the take down pictures is an R13. I've posted enough times, right here, how to get a Darne apart, either an R or a V, so, I'll spare everyone that. Search right here, if you get stuck, PM me and we will get it down for you via electrons, I guess.
This isn't rocket science.
If it fits, you are lucky indeed, noted above. If the stock is hollowed, you might have some issues getting a Silvers on the gun. I always wonder about a 20 gauge Darne with a pad, they shoot so sweet with just a buttplate, using regular loads, and the guns are dainty enough that putting a block of rubber on the back sometimes changes the balance the wrong way.
Not for me, thank you. If I needed a pad for length, I'd use a slip on.
None of the advice you have received here today is bad, Dr. Sane pointed out the obvious for you, but, he does that. There was a time when guys told you to get out a mallet and some big screwdrivers, and maybe a vise grips to get a Darne apart, maybe this whole internet thing is maturing a bit, no?
Use it in good health. Questions right here, if you got 'em.

Best,
Ted

Couple glasses of good French wine before you tackle it, barrels come off easily.

Pretty sure Ted would agree that the vast majority of Darnes were made for the European market. Particularly the French market. They were imported to the States at various times and by various importers (including Ted), but compared to total Darne production, new ones sent Stateside were never more than a trickle.

I saw and handled Darnes in France, mid-70's, before I'd ever seen any in the States. The first time I saw a couple on a table at a gun show, I said to the dealer: "I see you have a couple Darnes." "I believe that's pronounced Dar-nay," he corrected me. "Just 'darn' in France," I replied.

That's funny, no wonder the French always look at us with suspicion as we struggle through trying to correctly grapple with and enunciate their language. Come to think of it even the English look at us that way. The Germans, they don't care because no one, even the Germans, can correctly speak German.

When out to dinner in Lauffen, Germany, even Nate's wife, a German, said. "I don't know what he said, he's Bavarian, who can understand them."