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It's in my grubby little mitts now...

What a pearler of a gun! Well used, but intact and sound.

The really interesting bit, of course is the pair of tubes. The gun weighs about 7 1/4 lbs, but is nose heavy for a 28" gun, balancing about 2 inches ahead of the hinge. The smooth-ish bores are proofed at 13/1 (.719”-.729”) and are .722”, and the walls a minimum of .050”. The “rifling” is of a form reminiscent of Charles Lancaster’s oval bore patent, but with three wide, shallow, rounded “grooves”, with a major diameter of about .738”. They run full length, and, as best I can work out, have a rate of about 1 turn in 48 inches. No choking to speak of. It is only really visible as a definite triple-helical pattern of light and shadow when the bores are held up to a good light.

Looks like a shotgun on the outside, but feels like a rifle and looks it, too, on the inside. This should be fun - if I can figure out what to feed it.

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