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Ash
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An Underlever with a Difference!
      #256776 - 15/11/14 02:26 PM

This is on the RIA website, coming up for auction next month.

Heck of a drop on the stock, but i like it.

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/63/lid/1118

Unique C. Brockway Side by Side Combination Rifle-Shotgun



Description: This combination gun is marked "C.BROCKWAY BROCKPORT, PA." on the top of the .32 caliber rifle barrel and the same, but in two lines, on each of the back action lock plates. The shotgun barrel is choked 16 gauge full with a 2 1/2 inch chamber and is unmarked. It has light scrolling vine engraving on the lock plates and upper tang and uses a lever operated break action with ejector. It has blade front and adjustable sporting rear sights, double set triggers, and a smooth, varnished maple forend and checkered semi-pistol grip stock with a curved, slightly spurred, buttplate. The length of pull is approximately 12 3/4 inches. Chauncey Brockway Jr. of Brockport, Pennsylvania, was born in 1823 and was a gunsmith before and after his service in the Union Army.

Condition: About good. The barrels have a mottled brown patina with traces of the original finish. The remaining components have a mixture of partially bright surfaces and brown patina. There are some scrapes and marks throughout including a strike mark on the left barrel and some spots of pitting. The wood is very good with some minor dings and scratches. Mechanically fine with mostly clear markings.

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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: Ash]
      #256840 - 16/11/14 05:55 PM

That buttstock is really gross.

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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: NitroX]
      #256871 - 17/11/14 04:32 AM

Well addressed, John.

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Ash
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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: DarylS]
      #256912 - 17/11/14 05:50 PM

You guys are just dreamin' of how great it would be if your favourite doubles had a lever like that one :P

Jokes, would it be reallllly awkward to use a stock like that? Does it shoot from arm or the shoulder? Or some supppperrrr tall person?

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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: Ash]
      #256917 - 17/11/14 07:03 PM

This thing is clearly descending from a Pennsylvania long rifle.
Same absurd drop of the buttstock, the curved buttplate, even the (fake?) maple stripes.
The pistol grip is innovative, though.
Good question, how is such a piece shouldered?

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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: fuhrmann]
      #256924 - 17/11/14 09:59 PM

I think its a "down hill" gun.... You can only shoot down a hill with that! Hahahaha

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Re: An Underlever with a Difference! [Re: Gen_Hicks]
      #256941 - 18/11/14 09:59 AM

That is fiddle back maple, not fake- poorly stained. Those stripes and other grain structure appears quite real - however it's a butt-ugly stock & a waste of a great piece of maple. Fugly colouring as well - in my MOST humble opinion, of course.

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