It's a conversion. The serial # is way too early for a breechloader - pin or centerfire.It doesn't look like it was done by Purdey, either. Did you email them the serial #?

The first Purdey centerfire breechloaders were around 7100 or so. I think pinfires were around 6800+.

I think the bbls on your's have a shoe lump on them. The flats & lumps were welded onto the bbls because muzzleloaders didn't have either one.

OWD


Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 05/08/08 07:21 PM.
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