Explanation:

Aproximately 3 months ago while working on a old stevens 410 single barrel a search was made for a firing pin. Didn't want to ask the lathe for one so I stroled into the a local gun smith which was on the way to work but up to this time never visited because of just moveing to town 1.5 years previous. It was a typical gun smith shop, guns were not sold here just created and serviced. The smith was reserved an looked for a pin, but to no avail. Turning away from the couinter to leave I tuned back and said have you ever build a DR which seemed to liven him up. Yes he had built several in conjuction with a aquantence one even in 577NE. He went on to explain that they had come into posession of a number of parts for building DR. From these parts several rifles had been born and there were still parts remaining in the white and not assembled. Not wanting to be over bearing I remained reserved however, inside, I was bursting a the seems to get a look at these gens of two barrel gold. I stopped in later and asked to view the parts after a conversation about general gun smithing and associated interest. Eventually the items were on the counter for my perusal.

A oily old box was filled with box lock actions in diferent stages from raugh casting to finished. Every combination and quantiy of double rifle clock work was in that box: ribs, bolt , forarm iron, furnature, levers, triggers, barrels, mono-blocks springs and so forth.

The actions were 3 fastener the third being a dolls head that shouldn't even be used to couple lionel trains, but there it was. Maybe it worked but the geometry wasnt there, every has an idea. A interesting issue with the actions that has been machined is that TIG welding had been performed on them to thicken the gussets and on the water table. Unother interesting matter was that the machined actions were not set up for rifle fireing pins. The tags and pistol gip steel had been lentheded by welding on steel strip.

The most striking situation was a mostly assembled rifle that had a problem.

More to this later.

Wayne