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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! Best Regards, JBP
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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 Best Regards, JBP
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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 😊) Best Regards, JBP
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Non ( later production) round top:
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Thanks, JBP. I sent Mr. Beach an email. Thought it was possibly a special order? Pretty excited since it fits!
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Perfect. Thank you. Especially the pics. Makes it dead obvious. I figured it was something like that. Much prefer the aesthetics of the round top. This would be my round top Sauer sidelock. I have noticed that compared to many other guns, the top is very rounded.
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Some nice wood you got there James! That’s going to be awesome.
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Unfortunately Mr Beach has retired. Still working on letter from G&H though
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Some nice wood you got there James! That’s going to be awesome. Thanks. Really looking forward to its rehab completion.
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Anyone know what this number represents? I found another VL&D Sauer with same date and number in .410 gun looks very similar except missing overhead sears. It was a model 180?
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I am not sure but the area is used as a palette for mechanics' marks & sometimes modell numbers. I would hasten to wager it is some process mark or liability mark??
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My 1927-28 VL&D catalog came in today, gun pic and description is dead ringer for 280 except it came with Krupp special vs this guns Krupp Essen. It’s a 280 next one down was 180 total different gun.
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i thought of this thread when i happened to pick up doublegun journal 2010 - #3, and reread jack rowe's article "how to identify & describe fences"; wherein, he identifies four basic shapes of fences.
plain ball, long and short cutaway ball and bead ball, bead and cutaway
article is on page 131 if you're so inclined.
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my pleasure, sir....also noticed that you had beaten me to the draw on the impressive old 10 gauge gun....from "chicago".
ain't this stuff fascinating?
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Yes and that 10 was probably what Raimey calls a gestik ( I probably spelled wrong) where the gunmaker bought a kit from SD&G and finished it their way. But if that gun would have been a 16ga I would have paid the asking price, its beautiful!
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Please let us know the weight of the gun when received. It looked to be a rather heavy bugger. Very attractive, but massive by the appearance of the barrel walls. Best Regards, JBP
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Oh I didn’t buy it. I posted about it in September and let them know in other thread. I don’t like heavy guns. The xive Sauer is too heavy at 7.5lbs for me. I waterfowl hunted with Spanish 10ga sxs for decade or so almost 13lbs, not now I’m 53 and out of shape. No thanks
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JBP your 300e (saw in hunting pics) deserves its own thread here. Wow post some pics that is a very special German made gun!
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Sold to Z.C.Patten in 1929 from the V,L&D records sent to by Bob Beach ( Griffin& Howe)
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Original sales ledger entries from 1929 sale to Mr.Patten
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Absolutely gorgeous Sauer! I like this one over the game scene engraved guns, it just looks more refined in my opinion. Super nice to have its provenance as well. Congratulations!
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