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I have an 'ideal' gun...

Graded 1915 Fox 16 gauge, remade for me. With 28" Krupp bbls. choked SK1 and SK2, straight grip Teyssier French walnut executed by Gary Goudy, weight = 5 lbs. 15 ounces. Remade by Pete Mazur, Sam Welch, Bill Nittler, and Gary Goudy. I'm never letting thisone go...

C Man,
Really nice looking Fox, presented in a picture perfect situation! I wouldn't let it get away either.
As Dr. P pointed out, keeping the gun account active would remove any temptation to move that Fox for another.
Karl

Othe the other hand, I do like this Lindner Daly that I had rebuilt from a wreck... 20 Gauge with 28" best Damascus barrels, 2-3/4" chambers, semi-pistol grip stock of Turkish walnut, and weighs 5-1/2 lbs. Neat dove and quail gun...

Thanks, Karl. All credit goes to the makers and the photo credit is Clair Kofoed.

Stan thanks for the heads up on the weight calculations. I have posted a search for a 32 inch hammer gun into a thread on side by sides on the uk s pigeonwatch forum under guns and equipment in the side by side club it�s a long shot but a lot of the posters have some really nice side by sides so worth a try.
Moses that sounds like quite a hybrid you are after when I shot geese a lot more on the foreshore,pass shooting I think you would call it, my cousin would lend me his 10 bore AYA ,about 12lb in weight and virtually no recoil. That was before the lead shot ban so a regular load would be 2 oz or a bit more of 1s or 2 s. I hankered after my own and enquired about having some brass case s made up so I could hand load to keep the cost down.Alan Myers I think the gunmakers name was advised me to get 20 or 16 bore short inserts for the ten to practise ,which he offered to make up ,and also so that I could moonflight wigeon but I never managed to get one.Alan Myers makes or made single barrel 4 bore shoulder guns ,I think firing 4 oz of lead ,that would be quite an experience bringing down a flighting pinkfoot goose on the shore with such a gun
Dr P I think Julius Coster was George Coster father. I think I read in a Geoffrey Bothroyd book that he knew Henry/ Harris Morris the well known engraver from his time in the army and when back working as a gunmaker he had his guns engraved by him I think the book was called Boxlocks and Sidelocks. I think it also relates a story of him working his trade at his sister or sister in laws house.

Shotgunlover did Dickson make a ribless side by side? I know Alex. Martin did here in Glasgow down at Royal Exchange Suare it was taken over by Dickson of Edinburgh. The Alex Martin guns I think were sourced in Birmingham I used to call in to the shop when I was younger and also Arthur Allan�s on West Nile Street. Campbell Scott was the gunsmith there quite a character with a wealth of knowledge and a superb collection of shotguns I dropped off a shotgun to have the stock refinished after I had profusely over oiled it and ran off from his doorstep before he had a chance to look inside the slip. He gave me quite a telling off when I picked it up later.

Thank you kindly, Konor. You never know from whence help may come.

Here's tae the heath, the hill and the heather,
the bonnet, the plaid, the kilt and the feather.

Blessings, SRH

For a lot of walking, my 20 gauge Parker:


For waterfowl or tower shoots, my look alike 12 ga Parker.

I ever get rich I'm going to have one of my beater Fox guns done up...Geo

Several have posted here about single-barrel hammer guns, and I'm with them on that. My ideal is, like most things in life, a compromise. It is a 16-bore made by Thomas Seymour of London (1841-1844), converted from percussion to centre-fire some point in the 1870s. The twist barrel was re-proofed for smokeless powder at some point, and it weighs just under 5 pounds. OK, the non-rebounding lock and the Jones underlever are not very practical, but what a joy to carry a bit of history in the field! Most importantly, it is still taking grouse.