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Rarely do I find prewar round top Sauer dual sear, ejector guns for sale anymore, so I bought this one even though it was a 7.5lbs 30in barreled beast of a gun. Looks like case colors are original but wood and barrels look like they were refinished years ago. All the screws are great and nice to have original butt plate. Found a listing with same gun but 20ga they called it a grade 30 VL&D.
What model or grade do you fellows think I have?

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Can’t help you on the grade but that gun is enough to make me rethink my self imposed ban on buying 7 pound plus 12 gauge. Nicely done!

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Thanks. I didn’t expect to have a duck gun like this but wow, I’m sending the DM Lefever down the road for someone else to enjoy hell I already have the bismuth loaded up for this one! Its choked .042 .042!
Pics didn’t do wood justice.
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Looks very close in dimensions and chokes to my big Lindner Daly. Damn fine duck guns.


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A very nice gun.

The filing of the action body is very similar to the Greener Facile Princeps action, although I see the front of the floor plate is squared off whilst the FP would have a rounded front end.

Does it have Anson and Deeley styled cocking levers or is there a central cocking arrangement?

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S&Sohn Model XIV E. Very nice find as few round tops are found with the late date- I have a very similar one , a heavy , long , tightly choked waterfowl or pigeon weight gun, but cataloged by V,L&D as a model 280E , corresponds to a S&Sohn mo. XVII ( 1926 man ), but Not a round top action.
The XIV did not come with the 3-ring “ Spezial “ steel barrels as the XVII model did. V, L&D did catalogue a mo 240 that might have come with the lower grade barrels , but these would normally come with extractors rather than ejectors as your gun has .Might have been a special order for an early round top action and fitted with the lower grade barrels with ejectors to expedite ??
Looks to be in very nice condition, wonderful find . I prefer the looks of the round tops, but no difference in performance. Mine has smote a fair number of green heads the last couple of years!

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Let us know what Abercrombie and Fitch says about this great gun.

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Bob Beach still has access to the records but G&H no longer provide a service of purchasing photo copies of sales books.
Mr. Beach kindly sent me some images of the record entries for my last 1929 mo 300e ( round top) I picked up this Spring.
His email is:
Beach@griffinhowe.com

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Please excuse my ignorance but what is a Sauer “round top”. I haven’t heard that expression before.


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The detonators extend over the top of the breech ( kind of like a reinforced Webley and Scott action) on the left example, and on a “ round top” action, the barrel profiles blend seamlessly into the top of the receiver ( gun on right) , like the lines on a Prussian Daly ( as I’m sure you are familiar with 😊)
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