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 its 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.
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