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I think the only way to put those barrels back in service would be to have an action custom made for them. It simply would be an incredible coincidence to find an action to which they would just mate up.

You are fretting over what gauge to seek out, but the critical dimension for first consideration is the spacing between the firing pins. This must precisely match the distance between the centers of the bores on your barrels. Start your search there, and maybe you'll get lucky.

Good luck,
Curl

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thanks curl

i never hoped for the barrels to mate up to any action, thats where the hand fitting comes into play, but i dont think finding a action will be that hard since although these were hand made there were some standards in the buisness concerning action forgings and caliber size and spaceing between firing pins.

the gauge thing is more a commen denominator between wich actions were used most frequently and the 12 was it in england in most cases

im having the extra frazer barrels that i got with the alex henry fitted to another action(12 gauge underlever exposed hammers) as we speak and it took 2 days of searching to find a nice donor, should be done in about 3 months time.

so if you find an extra set of barrels, dont sweat it go out and find the action that fits and have yourself another dbl rifle.

peter