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Hi Tim-
Thanks for the great pics.
Do you have any idea where that 24g Woodward is located? Is it being offered for sale?
Thanks,
OWD
Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 12/03/15 11:36 AM.
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Yes, that is where I originally found the photo and I should have thanked Matt Brown for taking such cracking good ones! Matt is used by AA Brown to take photos of guns they have for sale. See http://doubleguns.co.uk/ However the 24 bore is not on their current list. Perhaps if you contact Matt or Robin they would let you know it's whereabouts now. Tim
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OK. Thank you.
I appreciate the help.
OWD
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Always one of my favorite threads. Thank you Tim!
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I rather like this splendid photograph by Simon Clode from his excellent Explora blog. It shows a trio of Westley Richards small bore droplocks, from top to bottom: 20g; 28g and .410 Tim [url=[URL=http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/trw999/media/Fine%20British%20Guns/Westley%20Richards%2020g%2028g%20amp%20.410g%20Droplocks_zpsebo0lezv.jpg.html]  [/url]][/url]
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That's a great looking trio of small bores. If it were mine I'd end up spending hours just holding them and admiring how great they looked.
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Pictures of English guns, that's all we get from this guy.
How about this;
"Selous when he first went to Africa in 1871 took along a "small double breech loading rifle" made by Reilly's of Oxford Street and someone soon stole it. He acquired a muzzleloading 10 bore double made by a maker named Vaughan (German? Belgium?). Selous considered the gun very inferior saying that it cross fired badly."
"In 1872 Selous paid 6 pounds each for a pair of smooth bore "duck guns" by Isaac Hollis of Birmingham. He describes them as firing a FOUR OUNCE roundball and the guns themselves weighed 12 1/2 pounds apiece and with these he killed seventy-eight elephants over the next three seasons. He said about the two Isaac Hollis muzzleloaders, "I have never used or seen used a rifle which drove better then those common made old muzzleloaders, however they were so light that they kicked most dreadfully."
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Beautiful guns, I especially like the fact that they were built with two triggers, not all that common on Westley drop locks.
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A beautiful trio of guns. Ah darn, I gotta wipe the drool off my chin again.
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