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Re: 4 Bore and 8 bore double rifles up for auction
Chantry #403837 05/16/15 01:15 PM
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I'm not looking for a cure...I'm doing what one of you mentioned and peering through my gun safe to see which hammerless firearms I'm willing to part with!!!!....(to acquire more hammer guns....naturally!). My sort of collection is mostly Jones Underlever or top lever with one Lefaucheux. I wouldn't be averse to a side lever, just haven't found one that trips my trigger.....yet.

I have seen some what appeared to be decent 10 bores for around a grand. My problem is there's either a kiplauf or Scheutzen rifle at the head of the line. When the search begins in earnest it will have to have Damascus barrels.

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Re: 4 Bore and 8 bore double rifles up for auction
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Originally Posted By: sharps4590
I'm not looking for a cure...I'm doing what one of you mentioned and peering through my gun safe to see which hammerless firearms I'm willing to part with!!!!....(to acquire more hammer guns....naturally!). My sort of collection is mostly Jones Underlever or top lever with one Lefaucheux. I wouldn't be averse to a side lever, just haven't found one that trips my trigger.....yet.

I have seen some what appeared to be decent 10 bores for around a grand. My problem is there's either a kiplauf or Scheutzen rifle at the head of the line. When the search begins in earnest it will have to have Damascus barrels.


For better or worse, I see to have settled on English hammered shotguns. I wouldn't mind a nice drilling, but rifle barrel tends to be chambered in some obscure caliber and the prices are higher then I would like for a gun that real serves no practical purpose for me since I don't hunt or shoot clay birds on a regular basis.

I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
Re: 4 Bore and 8 bore double rifles up for auction
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Originally Posted By: Chantry


For better or worse, I see to have settled on English hammered shotguns.


Stop right there and never get involved with English rifles.....

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Re: 4 Bore and 8 bore double rifles up for auction
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SKB has a good point there. One was all I could afford so I crossed the channel for the same quality for less money.

Reference the drillings I rather like the obscure cartridges. That's why I bought most of mine, no one had ever heard of the cartridge they were chambered to...but I admit to be a bit twisted. However, those are mostly older drillings. There is a pile of them out there in common cartridges: 7 X 57R, 8 X 57R, 9.3 X 74R, 9.3 X 72R is readily available also. Occasionally one is seen in 30-30 WCF or 25-35 WCF and even 22 Hornet.

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Re: 4 Bore and 8 bore double rifles up for auction
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If you are looking for a drilling chambered in an "American" caliber, you might keep an eye out for a nice Prussian Daly drilling (SD&G made both hammer and hammerless model). Schoverling, Daly, and Gales sourced drilling from Suhl (almost exclusively from Sauer), but chambered them in calibers familiar to US sportsmen - from 25-35 WCF to to 45-70.

It is sometimes amusing to see an auction catalog description of a Prussian Daly drilling where the catalog author assumes what he is looking at is an obscure Eurpoean caliber when, in fact, he has a 30-30 WCF in his hands.

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