The Purdey book by Donald Dallas says manufacture date of 1847. I forgot to post that. Someone told me that in a conversion all they reused was the barrels. Surely they reused the locks? And the stock?

So in the conversion was the gun was designed to shoot a thin wall brass shell? If you subtract the chamber diamter and from the bore diameter and divide by 2 the cartridge wall thickness comes out to about 0.015".

The tubes are Damascus.

Best,

Mike

Last edited by AmarilloMike; 05/08/08 07:25 PM.

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