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Time for a resurrection of this thread.

The skeletal bar in wood round action is still a very rare gun. Yet they have a lithesome quality which most find quite beguiling. Here are three to get your juices flowing!

1 - Joseph Manton Signature bar in wood
2 - MacNaughton The Edinburgh Gun
3 - A three-barrelled 20-bore bar-in-wood round action by J. Dickson

This comes with old fashioned British greetings for this time of year - have a very merry old Christmas, one and all.

Tim

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And a sidelever to boot - glad I have not faced the temptation of that gun in the flesh! Thanks for the Christmas present.

[quote=trw999]This morning we have a pair of fine looking Woodward 16 bore o/Us

Tim

Edited to add the photo, which was moved on my PB account.

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And how about a splendid Harkom A&D?

Tim

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Thanks, Tim, for those. That Manton is more than beguiling, it is mesmerizing. How I would love to fondle a 20 bore with 31" barrels. Why 31" ? If you're gonna be different, you may as well go all the way!

Merry CHRISTmas to you, too.

SRH

Stan, the inches measurement are for us in the U.S. It is what the Brits and Europeans refer to as the common 787.4 mm barrels.
Gil

Thanks Stan. The Manton Signature gun is very fine, though I personally find the MacNaughton has the edge in aesthetics.

Do you find the Manton trigger appears a wee bit too forward? Else the trigger guard is too small!

Tim

No, I like the trigger in that position. A quarter inch back wouldn't hurt, but I really don't care for single triggers in the position of a rear trigger on a two trigger gun. I have a L.C. Smith with Hunter One Trigger in that rear position and it is disconcerting to me. My hand position causes me to have to pull it with the second crease of my trigger finger.

Gil, my Perazzi has 31 1/2" barrels, so I was aware of the "odd lengths" of English and European guns. Twould be fun to be able to say in reply to the question "Why 31" ?" , "Because I WANTED them that way!".

SRH

Bit of a bump! This is an unusual little gun, a J Woodward 24 bore O/U from around 1935

Tim

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The trouble with English guns is not the way they look but how they feel when you shoulder one. Mystical, magical balance and "A leaf falls off a tree and an English gun wants to point at it," are the best description I've ever heard.