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1 & 5/8 oz lead load is at the lower end of 10 gauge data for Blue Dot.

I think that you are most unlikely to make that a load with workable ballistics in the 8 bore. A magnum shotshell primer may be worth a try, but...??

No, it doesn't.

The question about the Webley connection is answered - possibly - in Marco Nobili's 1997 book, which I do not have,
and - certainly - in Igor Karklinsh's superbly researched, scholarly deep, web accessible article, of which I have used the automatic Google translation:
https://shotguncollector.com/2023/10/17/%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%84%d1%8b-%d1%80%d0%be%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%b9%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be-%d0%be%d1%80%d1%83%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8f-%d1%84%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b4/

Mike, I'm not sure those number have anything to do with bore and might just be tube numbers. We need to have Dr. Drew or some of the others better acquainted with Brit markings chime in. Gene

now I would like to find an Original Savage 116SE in 425i Express - see my WTB post in the for sale section

Thank you Mike. I certainly hope so. It would be great to get this old great gun back to action. In your experience with similar cartridges as this one, would you say a deer in within 100 to 125 yards would be safe to shoot, (providing good placement shot)? Thanks.
BillK

26 inches.

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Thanks Mike. I saw those. I already had four of them; one was new.

There are now 715 Reilly guns whose parameters are known in the database on p.57. Presuming Reilly numbered around 33,700 guns from 1828 to 1912, that represents about 2.1% of the total, a good sample. We're now down to about 20 or so new numbers appearing each year - and there are also about 30 guns which have been auctioned off but whose numbers were not published which sooner or later will turn up. The new numbers haven't forced a change in the dating chart in about three years.

The chart really needs a few more guns from 1835-1847 to provide more clarity on that time period. There is a Maharajah in India who has 15 or so antique Reilly's. I've tried to correspond with his son using some old contacts from India days but to no avail.

"The maharajas were great collectors of empire's bric-a-brac. The tomblike salons exuded a Dickensian squalor and were crammed with sambar heads and taxidermic elephants in full regalia, horse racing trophies, and stuffed fantail snipes. There were lamps with deer hooves for stands, electrically illuminated peacocks, glasses with boar-tusk handles, and beautiful English guns from the London firm of E. M. Reilly.
http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2007-04-16/karma-express


Gene Williams

Tony had them. Don't know if he still does.

If you're really interested in Webley & Scott shotguns, you should get your hands on "The History of W & C Scott Gunmakers by Crawford and Whatley. For a thin book, it contains a lot of good photos of guns and information about them.

Thank you, Ted and Drew. Really good and helpful answers. The gun matching the Certificate was not with the case.

I guess the Certificate in question was for an AYA. Who has that gun, you need the Certificate .

Thank you. You answered my questions, and, although the answers are a bit sad, it is the truth.

Best,
Ted

WTB - SAVAGE MODEL 116SE SAFARI IN 425 EXPRESS CAL. - PM WITH ASKING PRICE


also .... lets try this ... I will pay a "$500 finder's fee" to anyone that finds me one for sale, that I'm able to purchase ... and I will pay "TRIPLE RETAIL" value to the seller.


https://bluebookofgunvalues.s3...71-92fd-7b0c01cf91ef

I don't have a clue. It should work.

Valid question. A typical combination for a Schonzeit-Büchsflinte (or maybe rather Büchsflintchen) was 28 ga with 5,6x35R.
And just when was the .22 WMR invented? In 1959? ;-)

Carcano

You're quite right about the lands/grooves, thanks. Made the correction to the post.

Thanks for the advice about A&T. I don't see anything like that marked on this rifle, but I'll keep digging for more information.

Is there any interest in this book?

Whats a signed copy worth. I will listen.

Too high?



Thanks

John

I listed this gun on gunbroker. Members here will receive a discount if you contact me before bidding.

Click on the link to see a right handed central vision double. I have seen dozens of right handed versions but no left handed ones. I am looking for a left handed central vision double.

https://www.holtsauctioneers.com/as...1221++1413+&refno=172908&image=8

Wood dried out over winter and things shifted?

I like those Chinese (Tourbon) slip on butt pad extenders. I use them on old English SXS's so you don't have to mess up the stock with a wood extension or ugly fat recoil pad.

Greg,

It's been years, like 25+ for Ahlman's. I was at the time satisfied with the work done. You could talk to Pat Laib, Laib's Gunsmithing in Spicer, MN. He has done work on some SxS guns for me in the past and near past. He is very much still in the business.

Chief

Excellent advice above. I will say that I've tried, and like best, tools that cut on the pull instead of the push.

The Model 30 I have is also a Parker-Hale. It is also the first double I had owned other than my original little Stevens 311 my dad gave me for my 13th birthday. Shortly after arriving in Albuquerque in 1993 I read an article in one of the shotgun magazines about a guy who went duck hunting with one of his old side by side guns, the model I dont remember. That was the spark, and the fire has never gone out yet!! I bought the Uggie and started duck hunting with it as well as my trusty old 311 using steel shot with no damage to either. Of course I paid close attention to the size of the steel shot and never experienced a problem with any of the ones I used. I still have tne 311 and the Model 30, both of which are keepers for purely sentimental reasons.

Someone who worked for Hoffman at one point probably.